True Confessions
Published on 21. January 1998
Book
Paperback/Softback
341 pages
978-1-874061-93-9 (ISBN)
Description
An unidentified murder victim - 'The Virgin Tramp' - is found in a vacant lot in the shadow of the L.A. Coliseum and precipitates a storm centre in the lives of scores of people. The Right Reverend Monsignor Desmond Spellacy is the chancellor of the archdiocese of L.A., a man clearly on the rise to even greater eminence in the church. His brother, Homicide Lieutenant Tom Spellacy is in charge of the murder investigation. Tom and Des inhabit the world of favours and fixes, power and promises, priests and pimps, cops and contractors, boxers and jockeys, lesbian fight promoters and lawyers who know only how to put the fix in.
True Confessions is a vital, vibrant novel about a crime that has no solutions, only victims, and about the complex relationship between brothers tainted by guilt and hostility, who ultimately find their salvation in each other.
True Confessions is a vital, vibrant novel about a crime that has no solutions, only victims, and about the complex relationship between brothers tainted by guilt and hostility, who ultimately find their salvation in each other.
Reviews / Votes
hard, tough and extremely funny writing -- Peter Walker * Crime Time * A crackling thriller, vivid, scabrous and poignant * Uncut * Not just a murder story, not just funny... The humor is blasphemous, scatological and obscene. Which is perfectly appropriate to this story of a corrupt homicide detective and his brother, a priest, who share a taste for comedy, high and low; a ghetto instinct for the edge; and a fine Irish sense of sin * Harpers * Scathingly funny * New York Times * Tougher than anything by Hammett * New York Times Book Review *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bedford Square Publishers
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 129 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-874061-93-9 (9781874061939)
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Person
John Gregory Dunne was married to Joan Didion and in addition to writing fiction had a substantial screen writing career. He was renowned for his witty and ascerbic commentary on the sordid nature of Hollywood life and the position of the writer within it. John Gregory Dunne died 30th December 2003.