James Ellroy: Blood on the Moon (UK 2012)

From the Publisher:
The first installment of the Lloyd Hopkins Trilogy. Somewhere out there is a murderer with over twenty killings to his name - each an apparently random slaying of a woman, over a twenty-year period and all unconnnected on the police files.

But Detective Sergeant Lloyd Hopkins begins to see a pattern: he senses connections between this string of seemingly motiveless, pointless and unsolved killings. Then the murderer emerges not as a random killer, but a cool, efficient despatcher - in his own eyes a saver of souls and protector of the innocent.

As they are drawn inexorably together, Hopkins and the murderer challenge each other in a confrontation which pits icy intelligence against white-heated madness...

James Ellroy: Blood on the Moon. A Novel. Cornerstone Digital, ISBN: 9781448134427 (December, 2011), 262 p., £2.99.

James Ellroy: Blood on the Moon (USA 2005)

From the Publisher:
Detective Sergeant Lloyd Hopkins can't stand music, or any loud sounds. He's got a beautiful wife, but he can't get enough of other women. And instead of bedtime stories, he regales his daughters with bloody crime stories. He's a thinking man's cop with a dark past and an obsessive drive to hunt down monsters who prey on the innocent.

Now, there's something haunting him. He sees a connection in a series of increasingly gruesome murders of women committed over a period of twenty years. To solve the case, Hopkins will dump all the rules and risk his career to make the final link and get the killer.

James Ellroy: Blood on the Moon. A Novel. Vintage, ISBN: 9781400095285 (May, 2005), 262 p., $13.95.

James Ellroy: Blood on the Moon (USA 1989)

From the Publisher:
DEATH MATCH
One is an LA. cop. Hard, driven, brilliant. The one they call when a murder case looks bad.

The other is a sex killer. The kind who never leaves a clue, never gets caught, and never runs out of ways to make pretty girls die.

The cop is supposed to play by the book. But not the killer... And the beautiful, terrified woman caught between them isnt ready for the final moves.

James Ellroy: Blood on the Moon. Avon, ISBN: 038069851X (August, 1989), 262 p., $3.95.

James Ellroy: Blood on the Moon (UK 1985)

From the Publisher:
A hauntingly horrible experience for an 8-year-old boy, so deeply shocking that it has been completely suppressed almost. An afternoon of adolescent high-school violence which turns, through sexual sadism, into a trauma reverberating throughout a young man's life. Two tormented victims but one becomes a killer and the other a cop.

Detective Sergeant Lloyd Hopkins is a brilliantly instinctive policeman with a secret past: a past born out of the physical and psychological violence of the 1965 Watts riots. "Someone" is a murderer with over twenty killings to his name, each an apparently random, motiveless killing of a woman over a twenty-year period and all unconnected on the police files.

Lloyd Hopkins begins to see a pattern; because of his psychological make-up he senses connections between the string of seemingly motiveless, senseless and unsolved killings. The murderer emerges not as a random killer, but a cool, efficient despatcher - in his own eyes a saver of souls and protector of the innocent.

Drawn inexorably together, Hopkins and the murderer challenge each other in a confrontation which pits icy intelligence against white-heated madness and lays bare the souls of two men driven in opposite directions by the same need.

James Ellroy: Blood on the Moon. Allison & Busby, ISBN: 085031612X (July, 1985), 262 p., £8.95.

James Ellroy: Blood on the Moon (USA 1985)

From the Publisher:
DEATH MATCH
One is an LA. cop. Hard, driven, brilliant. The one they call when a murder case looks bad.

The other is a sex killer. The kind who never leaves a clue, never gets caught, and never runs out of ways to make pretty girls die.

The cop is supposed to play by the book. But not the killer... And the beautiful, terrified woman caught between them isnt ready for the final moves.

James Ellroy: Blood on the Moon. Avon, ISBN: 038069851X (March, 1985), 262 p., $3.25.

James Ellroy: Blood on the Moon (USA 1984)

From the Publisher:
Detective Sergeant Lloyd Hopkins loves his work, his family, women, and innocence. Preternaturally brilliant and with an extraordinary instinct for police work, Hopkins moves through the Los Angeles night world saving souls, while faced with the constant threat of losing his own.

Someone else is stalking the city now - someone who can match Hopkins point for point in brilliance. But Teddy Verplanck has turned his mind to evil: he protects the innocent by murdering them. So successful has he been that in twenty years not one of his victims has been connected to another. Most are deemed suicides.

Drawn inexorably together, Hopkins and Verplanck challenge each other in a confrontation which pits icy intelligence against white-heated madness and lays bare the souls of two men driven in opposite directions by the same need.

Searing and shocking, as evocative of Los Angeles police work as the stories of Joseph Wambaugh and as compelling as the novels of Lawrence Sanders, Blood on the Moon is a frightening and exciting foray into the world of men driven by forces so strong they take over every life they touch.

James Ellroy: Blood on the Moon. A Novel of Suspense. Mysterious Press, ISBN: 0892960698 (March, 1984), 263 p., $14.95.