Because the night

The second instalment of the Lloyd Hopkins Trilogy, by James Ellroy.

As Detective Sergeant Lloyd Hopkins pieces the puzzle together, he discovers the darker threat of John Havilland, a psychiatrist whose pleasure comes from the manipulation of the weak and the lonely …

And, as Hopkins closes in, Havilland’s madness rages uncontrolled – and forces a shattering confrontation with the darker side of the human mind.