My Dark Places Mike Carey the bestselling novelist draws on

the bestselling novelist draws on the skills he honed with nine much-admired novels to tell the story he was

ambition and the importance of literature to everyone

respect and values

He is a brilliant maths professor with a peculiar problem - ever since a traumatic head injury seventeen years ago

My Dark Places Mike Carey the bestselling novelist draws onJames Ellroy's trademark is his language: it is sometimes caustically funny and always brazen. When he's hitting on all cylinders, as he is in My Dark Places, his style makes punchy rhythms out of short sentences using lingo such as "scoot" (dollar), "trim" (sex), and "brace" (to interrogate). But the premise for My Dark Places is what makes it especially compelling: Ellroy goes back to his own childhood to investigate the central mystery behind his