Title: True Confessions (Classic Noir)
First published: July 2000
Description: Loosely based on the "Black Dahlia" case, this novel of Irish-Catholic life in Southern California just after World War II centers on two brothers, Tom and Des Spellacy. Tom is a homicide detective and Des is a priest on the rise within the Church. The investigation of an unidentified murder victim whose bisected body is found in a vacant lot in the shadow of the Los Angeles Coliseum provides the background against which are played the ever changing loyalties of the two brothers.
Subjects: Brothers, fiction, Los angeles (calif.), fiction, Fiction, general, Mystery and detective stories, California, fiction, Fiction, Brothers, Detectives, Family relationships, Priests, Murder, Investigation, Detective and mystery stories, Fiction in English, Literatura estadounidense
Time periods: Siglo XX