The Black Dahlia

About this book

On January 15 1947 the torture-ravished body of a beautiful young woman is found in a vacant lot. The victim makes headlines as the Black Dahlia-and so begins the greatest manhunt in California history. Caught up in the investigation are Bucky Bleichert and Lee Blanchard: Warrants Squad cops friends and rivals in love with the same woman. But both are obsessed with the Dahlia-driven by dark needs to know everything about her past to capture her killer to possess the woman even in death. Their quest will take them on a hellish journey through the underbelly of postwar Hollywood to the core of the dead girls twisted life past the extremes of their own psyches-into a region of total madness.