Eye of the Cricket

James Sallis author Elsa Mathern illustrator

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Bedford Square Publishers

Published:25th May '12

Should be back in stock very soon

Eye of the Cricket cover

No.4 in the Lew Griffin Series

Lew Griffin is a survivor, a black man in New Orleans, a detective, a teacher, a writer. And he is a man subject to all of the frailties to which we are heir. Having spent years finding others, he has lost his son...and himself in the process.

Now a derelict has appeared in a New Orleans hospital claiming to be Lewis Griffin and displaying a copy of one of Lew's novels. It is the beginning of a quest that will take Griffin into his own past while he tries to deal in the present with a search for three missing young men.

Somewhere in the underbelly of the Crescent City, there are answers and more questions; there are threats and the promise of salvation; and there is a dangerous descent into the alcoholic haze that marked Griffin's younger days as well as the possibility of rising from it, redeemed. Lew Griffin's investigation is the hero's journey, mythic and strengthening and thoroughly satisfying.

Sallis is a fastidious man, intelligent and widely read. There's nothing slapdash or merely strategic about his work ... peculiar and visionary -- Iain Sinclair * London Review of Books *
Classic American crime of the highest order * Time Out *
dazzling, poignant and totally satisfying * Publishers Weekly *
a writer with rich metaphor, wonderful vocabulary and heart -- Andi Shechter * reviewingtheevidence.com *

ISBN: 9781842437087

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Weight: unknown

256 pages