James Sallis has published sixteen novels, multiple collections of short stories, essays, and poems, books of musicology, a biography of Chester Himes, and a translation of Raymond Queneau's novel Saint Glinglin. He has written about books for the LA Times, New York Times, and Washington Post, and for some years served as a books columnist for the Boston Globe. He has received a lifetime achievement award from Bouchercon, the Hammett Award for literary excellence in crime writing, and the Grand Prix de Littérature policière.
43 Ebooks par James Sallis
James Sallis: 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 atte …
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James Sallis: 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 …
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James Sallis: Drive
'I drive. That's what I do. All I do.' 'Much later, as he sat with his back against an inside wall of a Motel 6 just north of Phoenix, watching the pool of blood lap toward him, D …
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James Sallis: The Long-Legged Fly
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 …
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James Sallis: Moth
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-en …
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James Sallis: Black Hornet
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 Orle …
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James Sallis: Eye of the Cricket
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 sp …
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James Sallis: Bluebottle
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 th …
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James Sallis: Ghost of a Flea
In his old house in uptown New Orleans, Lew Griffin is alone again…or almost. He and Deborah are drifting apart. His son David has disappeared again, leaving behind a note that sounds final. Headin …
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James Sallis: 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 …
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James Sallis: Drive
'I drive. That's what I do. All I do.' 'Much later, as he sat with his back against an inside wall of a Motel 6 just north of Phoenix, watching the pool of blood lap toward him, D …
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James Sallis: Cypress Grove
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 …
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James Sallis: Cripple Creek
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 pr …
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James Sallis: Salt River
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 …
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James Sallis: 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 disconne …
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James Sallis: Driven
Drive, James Sallis's critically acclaimed thriller about a movie stunt-man who moonlights as a getaway driver for the mob, became an award-winning film, directed by Nicholas Winding Refn, starr …
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James Sallis: 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 …
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James Sallis: Willnot
In the woods outside the town of Willnot, the remains of several people have been discovered, unnerving the community and unsettling Dr. Lamar Hale, the town's all-purpose general practitioner, …
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James Sallis: Dunkle Schuld
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 k …
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James Sallis: Dunkle Vergeltung
Der ehemalige Cop Turner hat sich als Sheriff in einer Kleinstadt in der Nähe von Memphis niedergelassen. Doch die trügerische Ruhe wird gestört, als die örtliche Polizei ein Mitglied der Mafia verha …
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James Sallis: Dunkles Verhängnis
Zwei Jahre sind vergangen, seit Turners große Liebe Val vor dessen Augen erschossen wurde. Seine Trauer findet ein jähes Ende, als ein alter Freund auftaucht – er steht unter Mordverdacht, und Turner …
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James Sallis: Driver
Driver ist kein Verbrecher. Jedenfalls nicht im engeren Sinne. Er ist nur der beste Stuntfahrer, den man in Hollywood kriegen kann. Und manchmal fährt er bei Raubüberfällen den Fluchtwagen, obwohl ih …
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James Sallis: Driver
Driver ist kein Verbrecher. Jedenfalls nicht im engeren Sinne. Er ist nur der beste Stuntfahrer, den man in Hollywood kriegen kann. Und manchmal fährt er bei Raubüberfällen den Fluchtwagen, obwohl ih …
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James Sallis: Driver 2
Vor sieben Jahren ist Driver, der wortkarge Stuntfahrer, der nebenbei bei Raubüberfällen den Fluchtwagen lenkte, abgetaucht. Einer dieser Überfälle war schiefgelaufen, und mehrere Leute sind für eine …
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James Sallis: Driver 2
Vor sieben Jahren ist Driver, der wortkarge Stuntfahrer, der nebenbei bei Raubüberfällen den Fluchtwagen lenkte, abgetaucht. Einer dieser Überfälle war schiefgelaufen, und mehrere Leute sind für eine …
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James Sallis: Willnot
In Willnot, einer amerikanischen Kleinstadt, wird eine Grube voller Leichen entdeckt. Lamar Hale, der ortsansässige Arzt, wird vom Sheriff zum Tatort gerufen. Niemand weiß, wer die Opfer sind, geschw …
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James Sallis: Sarah Jane
Sarah Jane Pullman ist ein guter Cop mit komplizierter Vergangenheit. Aufgewachsen in einer Kleinstadt, bekam sie als jugendliche Ausreißerin Probleme mit dem Gesetz, wurde zwangsweise zur Army einge …
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James Sallis: Chester Himes
“[A] smart, conscientious, often stylish biography” of the great African American crime writer of the mid-twentieth century (The New York Times). Best known for The Harlem Cycle, t …
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James Sallis: Sarah Jane
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 con …
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James Sallis & JM Landels: Pulp Literature Autumn 2022
Under the wise gaze of ‘The Butterfly Witch’ by Melissa Mary Duncan , this issue promises at least two sides to every story …
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James Sallis: What You Were Fighting For
WHAT YOU WERE FIGHTING FOR is a wonderful collection of short stories that provokes the mind with its weird and intriguing tales. We catch glimpses of worlds that are similar to our own, but always d …
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