James Sallis

Over the past five years, James Sallis has created three of the most acclaimed mysteries published in America, each of them featuring the complex John Turner_former cop, therapist, and ex-con, trying to escape his past, yet ever involved in the small community somewhere near Memphis where he has sought refuge. What You Have Left_concise, elegiac, memorable_collects these three classics in one paperback volume.

A Willnot dans lArizona, des corps ont été découverts dans une ancienne carrière. Qui les a enterrés là? Des meurtres ont-ils été commis? Le shérif Hobbes fait part de sa perplexité à Lamar, médecin

A Willnot dans lArizona, des corps ont été découverts dans une ancienne carrière. Qui les a enterrés là? Des meurtres ont-ils été commis? Le shérif Hobbes fait part de sa perplexité à Lamar, médecin

Surnommée « Mignonne », ce qui ne lui va pas comme un gant, Sarah Jane Pullman a déjà trop vécu pour son jeune âge : famille dysfonctionnelle, fugue à l’adolescence, crimes, petits boulots dans des f

Surnommée « Mignonne », ce qui ne lui va pas comme un gant, Sarah Jane Pullman a déjà trop vécu pour son jeune âge : famille dysfonctionnelle, fugue à l’adolescence, crimes, petits boulots dans des f

A los dieciséis años, Sarah Jane Pullman huyó de su hogar familiar antes de que, literalmente, se viniera abajo. Inició entonces una odisea hacia ninguna parte que le llevó a ser soldado tras una condena del juez, esposa desafortunada y cocinera en locales de dudosa categoria. Hasta que un dia, casi sin pretenderlo, se convierte en miembro del cuerpo de policia de Farr, un pequeño pueblo perdido en la inmensidad del sur estadounidense. No mucho despues, su jefe desaparece misteriosamente y es ella quien tiene que ponerse al frente de la comisaria e investigar lo que le ha sucedido. James Sallis tiene un modus operandi: no desperdiciar nunca una palabra. Su prosa es tan penetrante como la sal en la lengua de un bebedor de tequila. JEFF NOON James Sallis esta en todo lo alto, es uno de los mejores. Es muy posible que no exagere si hablo de Sallis del mismo modo que lo hago de Poe y Dostoievski. HARLAN ELLISON

Les trois personnages de ce roman que tout sépare vont se retrouver réunis par les circonstances, la communication sur la Toile et leurs rêves qui se mêlent à la réalité de leur quotidien de manière

'Richly atmospheric, haunting, utterly compelling, the Lew Griffin novels are magnificent. James Sallis is an outstanding crime writer - an outstanding writer period' - Frances McDormand Latest volume in the hugely acclaimed Lew Griffin series.

Es medianoche. Está lloviendo. Una de las pocas luces del pasado oscuro y violento de Lew Griffin se ha extinguido. LaVerne Adams, su amante y amiga, ha muerto y la hija de su matrimonio con Horace Guidry, Aloutte, ha desaparecido en los sórdidos callejones de la droga, dejando atrás de sí un bebé adicto al crack y un misterio.

Finding people is what former private investigator Lew Griffin excels at. The terrible irony is that the exception is his own missing son. Dreams, memories, and reality run together to form his own darkest night. Lew Griffin is a survivor, a black man in New Orleansa teacher, a writer, and an ex-detective. Having spent years finding others, he has lost his sonand himself in the process. Now a derelict has appeared in a New Orleans hospital claiming to be Lewis Griffin and toting a copy of one of Lews novels. Learning the truth is a quest that will take Griffin into his own past as he tries to deal with the present: a search for three missing young men.

The mystery of private investigator Lew Griffin is revealed in the conclusion of this critically acclaimed, groundbreaking series. In his old house in uptown New Orleans, Lew Griffin stands alone in a dark room, looking out. Behind him on the bed is a body. Instead of speaking, he reflects on his lifehis failing relationship, his missing son, the fact that he hasnt written in yearsand how the two of them ended up there. In a novel as much about identity as about crime, the answers to Lews personal mysteries begin to become clear in the series brilliantly constructed climax.

Lew Griffin, now fifty years old, has abandoned his former career as a New Orleans private investigator for the safety of teaching. But his old life draws him back. One of the very few lights from Lew Griffins dark and violent past has flickered out. His one-time lover, LaVerne Adams, is deadand her daughter, Alouette, has vanished into a seamy, dead-end world of users and abusers, leaving behind a critically fragile premature infant daughter. Griffin is determined to keep his distance from the dangers of the New Orleans night. But his inescapable obligation to an old friend keeps bringing him back like a moth to a flame.

With this flashback novel to Lew Griffins past, James Sallis takes readers to 1960s New Orleans, a sun-baked city of Black Panthers and other separatists. A sniper has fatally shot five people. When the sixth victim is killed, Lew Griffin is standing beside her. Though they are virtual strangers, it is left to Griffin to avenge her death, or at least to try and make some sense of it. His unlikely allies include a crusading journalist, a longtime supplier of mercenary arms and troops, and a bail bondsman.

Weaving Griffins search for identity-one of the recurring themes in this magnificent series of novels-with a sensuous portrait of the people and places the define New Orleans, James Sallis continues not only to unravel Griffins past but to map his future . . . and our own.As Lew Griffin leaves a New Orleans music club with an older white woman he has just met, someone fires a shot and Lew goes down. When he comes to, he discovers that most of a year has gone by since that night. Who was the woman? Which of them was the target? Who was the shooter? Somewhere in the Crescent Cityand in the white supremacist movement crawling through ittheres an answer. But to get to it, he is going to have to work with the only people offering help, people he knows he should avoid.