Because the Night

 

It's no secret I love James Ellroy. A lot. I liked this one, but it was different from his other books. He didn't use any of the fun noir slang, but it was set in the mid-80s, not the 50s or 60s, so I suppose that played into it. 

Detective Lloyd Hopkins is assigned a grisly triple homicide in a liquor store when he finds out a hero cop named Jack Herzog. He is able to link the two together and his investigation takes him on some crazy twists and turns throughout L.A.