Blood on the Moon (Lloyd Hopkins Trilogy, #1) (Detective Sergeant Lloyd Hopkins, #1)

by James Ellroy

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.

• ISBN10: 140009528X
• ISBN13: 9781400095285
• Publish Date: 10 May 2005 (first published July 1985)
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: US
• Publisher: Random House USA Inc
• Imprint: Random House Inc
• Format: Paperback (US Trade)
• Pages: 272
• Language: English
• URL: https://penguinrandomhouse.com/books/isbn/9781400095285

Reviews

[Michael @ Knowledge Lost]

I normally love James Ellroy’s style and the hard-boiled/noir novels he writes. But Blood on the Moon just seems to be lacking the spark and excitement that I normally find in an Ellroy novel. Detective Sergeant Lloyd Hopkin is a character written to be hated and he doesn’t seem to be written well; sure I get the concept of a protagonist been hated but Hopkin feels sloppy, like if found all the most annoying habits and jammed it into this character. It is interesting to see how much Ellroy has improved over the years and after reading My Dark Places, how much his life was in the book. I would recommend reading the LA Quartet over the LA Noir series. I think I will read the rest of the books just to see the improvement in James Ellroy’s writing.