Our new memeber of the group (Layla) was lucky enough to be picked out of the hat at random at the end of Mike's meeting. She decided to chose The Black Dahlia by James Ellroy.
This book is very different to any of the books that we had read before and it did have a mixed response. The book was based on a true unsolved murder in 1947 of a girl called Elizabeth Short. The main characters in the book were the policemen that were working on the crime and you could say that they both had unhealthy obsessive/relationships with the victim.
The style of writing was very different to what we were used to and consisted of a lot of police terminology and jargon which we all agreed took along time to get used to. It was also very graffic and what some might say; a bit too descriptive in parts. Some members of the group felt that they would have nightmares on completing the book but this was not the case.
Overall a good book, a bit sickening (in the words of Amy)but definately a page turner.
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