Moth
The second Lew Griffin novelOne 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 abusers... leaving behind a crack-addicted infant and a mystery.Abandoning his former career for the safe respectability of teaching, Lew Griffin now spends his time in an old house in the garden district - determined to keep his distance from the lowlife temptations of the New Orleans night. But an inescapable obligation to an old friend is drawing the tormented black ex-P.I. to danger like a moth to a…
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- ISBN: 978-1-84243-702-5
- EAN: 9781842437025
- Produktnummer: 13859202
- Verlag: Oldcastle Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 256 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 370 KB
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James Sallis has published seventeen 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. The Cannes award-winning film Drive derived from his novel of that title. His new novel, Sarah Jane, will be available from No Exit Press in 2019. Jim plays numerous instruments with his string band Three-Legged Dog and with other musicians in the Phoenix area. He stays busy.
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