Blood on the Moon

About “Blood on the Moon”

Blood on the Moon (1984) is a crime novel by James Ellroy, published in the U.S. by The Mysterious Press and in the U.K. by Allison and Busby. It is the first book in Ellroy's Lloyd Hopkins Trilogy, followed by Because the Night (1984) and Suicide Hill (1985). The novel is told from multiple perspectives and uses an omniscient narrator, but the central character in all three books is Lloyd Hopkins. Ellroy has said that Blood on the Moon is the only novel he is embarrassed by. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.)