Book description
My Dark Places isn't just an audiobook-it's a descent. James Ellroy pulls you down into the wreckage of his childhood, his mother's murder, the silence that followed. You hear his voice, raw and unfiltered, cutting through decades of buried pain.
The man behind L.A. Confidential brings that same brutal honesty to his own story. His mother, Jean, found dead on a roadside in 1958. A ten-year-old boy who hated her in death even as he grieved. The crime that shaped everything-he became obsessed with violence, with dead women, with the darkness that lived in plain sight.
What hits hardest is how Ellroy doesn't romanticize any of it. He hated his mother. He ran from her memory. He tried to write her back into existence through fiction and failed. So he did something braver-he faced the real story head-on.
The audiobook format works perfectly here. You're not just reading about his pain-you're hearing it. His staccato prose, that telegrammatic style he's known for, translates into something almost musical when spoken aloud. Short sentences hit like hammer blows. Missing words force you to lean in closer.
He teams up with detective Bill Stoner to reopen the case. What unfolds is part investigation, part exorcism. Ellroy doesn't just investigate his mother's murder-he investigates himself. The result is unflinching, uncomfortable, necessary.
This isn't entertainment. It's confrontation. With loss, with memory, with the ways we survive trauma. Ellroy's voice, whether on the page or through your headphones, carries the weight of someone who's spent a lifetime running from ghosts and finally decided to turn and face them.
The darkness he explores isn't sanitized or softened. It's presented as lived experience-messy, contradictory, real. That's what makes this audiobook essential listening.
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Playing a wide variety of audio formats
Works on all devices with iOS 13 and newer
Huge amount of features for a small price
Frequent updates to add new features and improve existing ones
Advanced playback controls
Live sound processing
Changing the timbre of the reader's voice and noise reduction
Translated into more than 20 languages
If you love listening to fiction audiobooks, ListenBook has features to make the process easier.
Edit book data: title, author, cover
Use equalizer to make the sound comfortable for you
Adjust the playback speed
Enjoy dark and light app themes
Supported formats: MP3, M4B, AWB, FLAC, OGG audio files and many more (must be DRM free)
Auto-Bookmarks make it easy to find your place
AirPlay support allows redirection of audio output.
VoiceOver support
Dark mode for night owls
Convenient bookmarking system helps you mark the most important places.
Unlimited bookmarks for each audiobook
Put your own cover on the wager
Share your audiobook with friends
Lock-screen control
Customise app with extensive options
Sleep timer with shake to reset, set custom notification sounds, and a few unique options
Auto rewind depending on paused time, customize rewind times to your liking
Removing background noise from recordings made in classrooms and meetings
Changing the timbre of the reader's voice for a better listening experience