Blood’s a Rover — James Ellroy

[Dave Monroe]

"In a sense, Blood’s comes across as the evil twin of Thomas Pynchon’s
recent novel Inherent Vice. Both novels threaten to crush the reader
under the densities of their plots, yet, where Pynchon allows his
hippie detective Doc Sportello’s marijuana haze to infiltrate (and
thus lighten) the novel’s discourse, Ellroy’s technique simply
compounds and confounds in its ugliness...."

http://biblioklept.org/2009/10/18/bloods-a-rover-james-ellroy/