On January 15, 1947, the torture-ravished body of a beautiful young woman is found in a vacant lot. The victim makes headlines as the Black Dahlia-and so begins the greatest manhunt in California history.
Caught up in the investigation are Bucky Bleichert and Lee Blanchard. Both are obsessed with the Dahlia-driven by dark needs to know everything about her past, to capture her killer, to possess the woman even in death. Their quest will take them on a hellish journey through the underbelly of postwar Hollywood, to the core of the dead girl's twisted life, past the extremes of their own psyches-into a region of total madness.
Too much going on. There was so much interconnection with all the characters, it was hard to keep up. The movie was even worse.
The Black Dahlia
Written by Anonymous on March 15th, 2008
Book Rating: 3/5
Similar to the movie, I was disappointed that this book did not center more on the actual case of the Black Dahlia. This is more about people that investigated the case, and their lives. The book was better than the movie, though. There was more a feeling of getting to know and understand the characters in the book, than the movie. I would not bother with this book again, though.
Black Dahlia - Sick
Written by Anonymous on August 30th, 2007
Book Rating: 1/5
I hated this book. It nothing but a snuff novel full of sick people. The only compliment I can give is that I had to know the end of the story and could not stop myself from finishing. Now that I know the end I wish I had never started.
So Enjoyable
Written by Daparoye from Orange, CA
on July 12th, 2007
Book Rating: 4/5
This book was a pleasure to listen to. The narrator is EXCELLENT and gives the feeling of a noir type story. Very edgy. I LOVED the main characters, Bucky and Lee, and it was difficult to go into the house after my commute because I needed to know what happens next. Truly a terrific book. The afterword by the author was also worth a listen. I need to read more by him because he seems like a VERY INTERESTING character himself.
The Black Dahlia
Written by Anonymous on May 12th, 2007
Book Rating: 4/5
This was an interesting and scary crime drama, loosly based on a real-life unsolved murder. There are lots of surprises and twists and turns, and the book is well read by the reader to sound like a 1940s gumshoe detective novel.
