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Reviewed on December 22, 2023 | Fiction
Ellroy (Widespread Panic) takes every lurid tabloid headline about Marilyn Monroe and turns them up to 11 in this sprawling alternative-history noir. It's 1962, and Ellroy's tainted detective Freddie Otash has been asked by Jimmy Hoffa to surveil Marilyn Monroe and gather dirt on her relationship with the Kennedys. The chief of the LAPD has also charged Otash with finding a kidnapped B-movie starlet who ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More