The eBook deal of the day today for the Amazon Kindle is James Ellroy‘s first novel, Brown’s Requiem, for only $1.99 (that’s down 80% from the suggested retail price of $9.99).

Note, this deal is valid only for today, Sunday, October 9, 2011, until 11:59PM PST.

Text-to-Speech is enabled on this Kindle version. If you’d like to own a physical copy of Brown’s Requiem, the book is also available in paperback for $11.89.

Fritz Brown’s L.A.–and his life–are masses of contradictions, like stirring chorales sung for the dead. A less-than-spotless former cop with a drinking problem–a private eye-cum-repo man with a taste for great music–he has been known to wallow in the grime beneath the Hollywood glitter. But Fritz Brown’s life is about to change, thanks to the appearance of a racist psycho who flashes too much cash for a golf caddie and who walked away clean from a multiple murder rap. Reopening this cas could be Fritz’s redemption; his welcome back to a moral world and his path to a pure and perfect love. But to get there, he must make it through a grim, lightless place where evil has no national borders; where lies beget lies and death begets death; where there’s little tolerance for Bach or Beethoven and deadly arson is a lesser mortal sin; and where a p.i.’s unhealthy interest in the past can turn beautiful music into funeral dirge.