James Sallis Book order (chronological)

A spare, sparkling tour de force about one woman's journey to becoming a cop, by master of noir James Sallis, author of Drive. Sarah Jane Pullman is a 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, a parable about memory, atonement, and finding shape in chaos. Her life takes an unexpected turn when she is named the de facto sheriff of a rural town, investigating the mysterious disappearance of the sheriff whose shoes she’s filling—and the even more mysterious realities of the life he was hiding from his own colleagues and closest friends. This kaleidoscopic character study sparkles in every dark and bright detail—a virtuoso work by a master of both and the tender aspects of human nature.

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 towns all-purpose general practitioner, surgeon and town conscience.

As much a classic detective story as it is a literary masterpiece, The Long-Legged Fly introduces us to Lew Griffin: tough, smart, and living in a corner of society where life is fought for as much as it is lived. In steamy New Orleans, black private detective Lew Griffin has taken on a seemingly hopeless missing-person case. The trail takes him through the underbelly of the French Quarter with its bar girls, pimps, and tourist attractions. As his search leads to one violent dead end and then another, Griffin is confronted by the realization that his own life has come to resemble those of the people he is attempting to find.

With this flashback novel to Lew Griffin’s past, James Sallis takes readers to 1960s New Orleans, a sun-baked city of Black Panthers and other separatists. A sniper has fatally shot five people. When the sixth victim is killed, Lew Griffin is standing beside her. Though they are virtual strangers, it is left to Griffin to avenge her death, or at least to try and make some sense of it. His unlikely allies include a crusading journalist, a longtime supplier of mercenary arms and troops, and a bail bondsman.

The mystery of private investigator Lew Griffin is revealed in the conclusion of this critically acclaimed, groundbreaking series. In his old house in uptown New Orleans, Lew Griffin stands alone in a dark room, looking out. Behind him on the bed is a body. Instead of speaking, he reflects on his life—his failing relationship, his missing son, the fact that he hasn’t written in years—and how the two of them ended up there. In a novel as much about identity as about crime, the answers to Lew’s personal mysteries begin to become clear in the series’ brilliantly constructed climax.

Driver thinks he has settled into a normal life, but after his fiancée is killed he must confront his criminal past.

Zwei Jahre nach dem Mord an seiner großen Liebe Val wird Ex-Cop Turner erneut in einen Fall verwickelt, als ein alter Freund unter Mordverdacht steht. James Sallis zeigt in diesem letzten Roman um Turner erneut seinen poetischen und unverwechselbaren Stil.

A hired assassin searching for a rival killer, a burned-out detective with a terminally ill wife and an abandoned youth surviving by his wits follow inextricably linked paths toward community acceptance in the unforgiving sunlight and sprawl of Phoenix. 20,000 first printing.

Fiction. Short Stores. POTATO TREES's 41 stories, with their vivid imagery, poetic language and heart-wrenching emotions, are Sallis at his edgiest, most indefinable best. James Sallis is best-known for his six-volume Lew Griffin cycle, his authoritative biography of Chester Himes, the novel DRIVE which the New York Times called "a perfect noir novel", and for his criticism of literary, foreign-language and genre writing.

Set mostly in Arizona and L.A., Drive is about a man who does stunt driving for movies by day and drives for criminals at night. Sallis combines murder, treachery and payback in a sinister plot with resonances of 1940s pulp fiction and film noir. Told through a cinematic narrative that weaves back and forth through time and place, the story explores Driver's near'existential moral foundations, intercut with moments of bloody violence.

Turner porte un lourd passé sur ses épaules. Ancien flic à Memphis, il a passé onze années en prison après avoir tué son partenaire durant une mission. Reconverti en psychothérapeute à sa sortie, Turner s'est finalement retiré à Oxford, une petite ville du Mississippi où les circonstances – plus qu'une réelle volonté – ont fait de lui un adjoint du shérif local. Un soir, Turner et ses hommes arrêtent un chauffard qui traverse Oxford à tombeau ouvert au volant d'une Ford Mustang. L'homme transpire le Jack Daniel's et transporte un sac contenant 200 000 dollars. Au petit matin, alors que le soiffard cuve à l'ombre, une fusillade éclate : deux types viennent 'extraire' le prisonnier de sa cellule et blessent grièvement un adjoint et la secrétaire du commissariat. Quand Turner apprend que l'évadé est connu des services de police et qu'il travaille pour un caïd de Memphis, il décide de partir à sa poursuite. En roulant vers cette ville qu'il a fuie, Turner ne se doute pas qu'il va libérer les fantômes de son passé et que la vague de violence ne fait que se lever…

A murder with eerie connections to the past brings a man back to his calling. Turner was a homicide cop long ago, until he got mixed up in the wrong case and ended up behind bars himself. Now retired to a cabin in a small Southern town, Turner's been recruited by the local Sheriff to help solve a bizarre and gruesome case

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. 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.

Lew Griffin, now fifty years old, has abandoned his former career as a New Orleans private investigator for the safety of teaching. But his old life draws him back. One of the very few lights from Lew Griffin’s dark and violent past has flickered out. His one-time lover, LaVerne Adams, is dead—and her daughter, Alouette, has vanished into a seamy, dead-end world of users and abusers, leaving behind a critically fragile premature infant daughter. Griffin is determined to keep his distance from the dangers of the New Orleans night. But his inescapable obligation to an old friend keeps bringing him back like a moth to a flame.

Du entkommst mir nicht In seinem früheren Leben war David Agent einer Eliteeinheit, ein Killer im Auftrag des Staates. Doch als eines Nachts das Telefon klingelt, weiß er, dass man seiner eigenen Vergangenheit nicht entfliehen kann, egal wie sehr man es auch versucht. Angeblich zieht ein ehemaliger Kamerad eine Blutspur durch Amerika, und nur David kann ihn zur Strecke bringen. Der gnadenlose Kampf mit einem Schatten beginnt …