Books by James Sallis
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Sarah Jane
A spare, sparkling tour de force about one woman's journey to becoming a cop, by master of noir James Sallis, author of Drive. A spare, sparkling tour de force about one woman's journey to becoming a cop. Sarah Jane... See More
Difficult Lives - Hitching Rides
Winner of the 2019 H.R.F. Keating Award for the best biographical or critical book related to crime fiction Originally published by Gryphon Books in 1993, Difficult Lives was one of the earliest attempts to track the legacy... See More
Black Hornet (Lew Griffin Book 3)
The third part of James Sallis' sequence of novels featuring Lew Griffin In a time of anger, activism, and bitter racial tensions, a sniper has appeared to heat up an already sweltering New Orleans summer - by tearing up... See More
Cypress Grove (The Turner Trilogy Book 1)
James Sallis is one of our great stylists and storytellers, whose deep interest in human nature is expressed in the powerful stories of men too often at odds with themselves as well as with the world around them. The small... See More
Moth (Lew Griffin Book 2)
One of the very few lights from Lew Griffin's dark and violent past has flickered out. His one-time lover, La Verne Adams is dead - and her daughter, Alouette, has vanished into a seamy, dead-end world of users and... See More
The Killer Is Dying
A hired killer on his final job; a burned-out detective whose wife is dying slowly and in agony; a young boy abandoned by his parents and living alone by his wits. Three people, solitary and disconnected from society. The... See More
Ghost of a Flea (Lew Griffin)
The final Lew Griffin novel 'Somewhere, among the wastes of the world, is the key that will bring us back, restore us to our Earth and to our freedom,' Pynchon wrote in Gravity's Rainbow. Never has a man's search among... See More
Others of my Kind
At age eight, Jenny Rowan was abducted and kept for two years in a box beneath her captor's bed. Eventually she escaped and, after living for eighteen months on cast-offs at the local mall, was put into the child-care... See More
Salt River (Turner Trilogy Book 3)
Few American writers create more memorable landscapes - both natural and interior - than James Sallis. His highly praised Lew Griffin novels evoked classic New Orleans and the convoluted inner space of his black private... See More
Cripple Creek (Turner Trilogy Book 2)
In Cypress Grove, James Sallis introduced his compelling new protagonist - Turner. Susannah Yager of The Telegraph said: "Sallis's deceptively easy style disguises the skill with which he has produced a satisfyingly complete... See More
Death Will Have Your Eyes
John le Carré meets the Coen brothers in this inspired road novel about secret agents on a mission to find meaning in their lives... David (as he's currently known) was one of an elite corps of spies trained during the... See More
Eye of the Cricket (Lew Griffin)
The fourth Lew Griffin novel 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... See More
Bluebottle (Lew Griffin Book 5)
No.5 in the Lew Griffin Series 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, Griffin discovers that most of a year has... See More
Interzone #289 (November-December 2020): New Science Fiction and Fantasy (Interzone Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine)
Interzone's 2020 cover artist is Warwick Fraser-Coombe Fiction: Cryptozoology by Tim Lees illustrated by Richard Wagner The Ephemeral Quality of Mersay by John Possidente illustrated by Jim Burns The Way of His Kind by... See More
Ain't Long Fore Day
Ain't Long Fore Day are poems that carry on in the spirit of the blues. With music and enigma, James Sallis delivers lyrical and narrative poems steeped in the beauty of the every day. See More
The Long-Legged Fly (Lew Griffin Book 1)
Part One of the Lew Griffin Series There are those who vanish into the steaming New Orleans night - and it is part time Private Investigator, Repo-man and blues afficionado Lew Griffin's job to find them. A prisoner of the... See More
Dayenu and Other Stories
Reflecting as always his deep respect for classic science fiction, fantasy and crime fiction, Dayenu and Other Stories collects 22 of Jim's new tales. Bluesmen whose thoughts become real, chatty philosophic spiders, revenant... See More
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction September/October 2020
NOVELLAS Of Them All - Leah Cypess NOVELETS The Shadows of Alexandrium - David Gerrold My Name Was Tom - Tim Powers The Fairy Egg - R.S. Benedict SHORT STORIES Weeper - Marc Laidlaw Do AIs Dream of Perfect Games? - Angie... See More
Bullets and Other Hurting Things: A Tribute to Bill Crider
In a career spanning nearly four decades, Bill Crider published more than sixty crime fiction, westerns, horror, men's adventure and YA novels. In this collection 20 of today's best and brightest, all friends and fans of... See More
Interzone #286 (March-April 2020): New Science Fiction and Fantasy (Interzone Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine)
The March-April issue contains new cutting edge science fiction and fantasy novelettes by James Sallis, Val Nolan, Matt Thompson, and Louis Evans. The 2020 cover artist is Warwick Fraser-Coombe, and interior colour... See More
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction September/October 2019 (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction Book 137)
NOVELETS The White Cat's Divorce - Kelly Link American Gold Mine - Paolo Bacigalupi Kabul - Michael Moorcock Erase, Erase, Erase - Elizabeth Bear SHORT STORIES Little Inn on the Jianghu - Y.M. Pang Under the Hill - Maureen... See More
Dunkle Schuld: Roman (German Edition)
Eigentlich hatte sich Ex-Cop Turner in das kleine Provinzkaff Cypress Grove zurückgezogen, um sein altes Leben hinter sich zu lassen. Doch als der unerfahrene Sheriff des Ortes mit einem Ritualmord konfrontiert wird, bittet... See More
Broken River Review #1
Two pieces of fiction, and two pieces of non-fiction. See More
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction May/June 2018 (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction Book 134)
NOVELETS The Barrens - Stephanie Feldman Inquisitive - Pip Coen Argent and Sable - Matthew Hughes Crash Site - Brian Trent Behold the Child - Albert E. Cowdrey SHORT STORIES Tender Loving Plastics - Amman Sabet The Bicycle... See More
Clarkesworld Magazine Issue 192
Clarkesworld is a Hugo and World Fantasy Award-winning science fiction and fantasy magazine. Each month we bring you a mix of fiction, articles, interviews and art. Our September 2022 issue (#192) contains: • Original... See More
Interzone #274 (March-April 2018): New Science Fiction & Fantasy (Interzone Science Fiction & Fantasy Magazine)
The March-April issue of Britain's longest running science fiction and fantasy magazine contains new long and short stories by James Sallis, Antony Johnston, Julie C. Day, Alexandra Renwick, T.R. Napper, Michael Reid, and... See More