James Sallis

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

A stylish piece of noir fiction, Drive is about a man who does stunt driving for movies by day and drives for criminals at night....

Lew Griffin has quit the detective business and withdrawn to the safety of his old home in New Orleans' Garden District, where he copes with his past by transforming it into fiction....

Seven years have passed since Driver ended his campaign against those who double-crossed him....

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

Now Deputy Sheriff in his new town, Turner seems to be finally escaping his past and creating a new life for himself....

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...

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

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....

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.....

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

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....

Sarah Jane Pullman is a good cop with a complicated past. From her small-town chicken-farming roots through her runaway adolescence, court-ordered army stint, ill-advised marriage and years slinging scrambled eggs over greasy spoon griddles, Sarah Jane unfolds her life story....

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