James Sallis

Herein you’ll find science fiction, comedy low and high, fantasy, crime stories, stories of everyday life: the realist, arealist, and surreal all together in a jumble, enjambed.

Two years have passed since Turner's lover, Val Bjorn, was shot as they sat together on the porch of his cabin....

David was one of an elite corps of spies trained during the Cold War....

The small town where Turner has moved is the perfect hide-away for him to forget he was a cop, a psychotherapist and always an ex-con...

At age eight, Jenny Rowan was abducted and kept for two years in a box beneath her captor's bed....

A hired killer on his final job, a burned out detective whose wife is dying slowly, a young boy abandoned by his parents and living alone by his wits....

In Cypress Grove, a murder with eerie connections to the past brings a man back to his calling....

Lew Griffin is a survivor, a black man in New Orleans, a detective, a teacher, a writer. Having spent years finding others, he has lost his son - and himself - in the process....

The mystery of Lew Griffin is revealed in this concluding novel of an honored series....

Lew Griffin has quit the detective business and withdrawn to the safety of his old home in New Orleans' Garden District, where he copes with his past by transforming it into fiction....

As Lew Griffin leaves a New Orleans music club with an older white woman he's just met, someone fires a shot and Lew goes down.....

A sniper appears in 1960s New Orleans, a sun-baked city of Black Panthers and other separatists. Five people have been fatally shot....

In steamy New Orleans, black private detective Lew Griffin has taken on a seemingly hopeless missing-person case....