But when he’s on, as he is in his new, Marilyn Monroe-centered book “The Enchanters,” a sort of fever takes hold of the reader. Fact, fiction and conspiracy blur together until you can’t ...

James Ellroy’s The Enchanters arrives to put that legacy right back where it used to be — in the zone of kink, innuendo, sex, gossip and scandal. Ellroy is not Jacqueline Rose or Joyce Carol ...

The troubled specter of Marilyn Monroe haunts James Ellroy’s latest novel, “The Enchanters,” but its real star is Freddy Otash, the notorious Los Angeles police officer and private ...

You even find it in the section headings of “The Enchanters”: “Sex Creep,” “Bait Girls,” “Wife Swap.” Public history does not feel as alluring to him as furtive genealogies of ...

Sponsor Message The Enchanters is so complex, multilayered, and full of characters that there is a four-page list of characters at the end as well as a glossary of police and criminal terms ...

Fred Otash, the narrator of James Ellroy’s 2021 novel “Widespread Panic,” returns in “The Enchanters,” a feverish cinematic fiction set in Los Angeles in 1962. Otash was a real-life ...

Freddy Otash, the hero of the Underworld USA trilogy, returns for this noirish ride through the Los Angeles of 1962, which follows on the from the death of Marilyn Monroe and features cameos from ...

You’re more desperate and pretentious. I had to learn to love you. She made it easy. From THE ENCHANTERS: A Novel by James Ellroy. Reprinted by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of ...