Death Will Have Your Eyes: A Novel About Spies

James Sallis

Literature & Fiction

Diane Pub Co.

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 good cop with a complicated past. From her smalltown chicken-farming roots through her runaway adolescence, courtordered 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 finds herself 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.
In the tradition of James Crumley's The Last Good Kiss and Ivy Pochoda's Wonder Valley, this kaleidoscopic character study sparkles in every dark and bright detail a virtuoso work by amaster of both the noir and the tender aspects of human nature.
Praise for James Sallis
'Sallis creates vivid images in very few words and his taut, pared-down prose is distinctive and powerful. The result is a small masterpiece' Sunday Telegraph
'Crime novels seldom come as lean and mean...essential noir existentialism' Guardian
'The perfect piece of noir fiction' New York Times Book Review
'Sallis is a fastidious man, intelligent and widely read. There's nothing slapdash or merely strategic about his work ... peculiar and visionary' Iain Sinclair, London Review of Books

Sarah Jane

No Exit Press

Crimewave: The Last Sunset: Last Sunsset v. 7

CHRISTOPHER FOWLER

Stephen Volk

Mat Coward

Muriel GRAY

John, Grant

Tim Casson

Ray Nayler

Crimewave

Marion Arnott

Gary Couzens

Debbie Moon

Steve Mohn

TTA Press

Cripple Creek

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Blackstone Publishing

The Long-Legged Fly: A Lew Griffin Mystery

United States

Blackstone Audio,Inc.

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 the real detective/writer Lew Griffin into his own past.

Eye of the Cricket: A Lew Griffin Mystery (Library Binding)

Eye of the Cricket: A Lew Griffin Mystery

Salt River

''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, Driver would wonder whether he had made a terrible mistake. Later still, of course, there'd be no doubt. But for now Driver is, as they say, in the moment. And the moment includes this blood lapping toward him, the pressure of dawn's late light at windows and door, traffic sounds from the interstate nearby, the sound of someone weeping in the next room . . . ''    Thus begins Drive, the story of a man who works as a stunt driver by day and a getaway driver by night. He drives, that's all -- until he's double-crossed. Powerful and stylistically brilliant, Drive has been hailed by critics as the ''perfect piece of noir fiction'' (New York Times Book Review) and an instant classic . . . and now a major motion picture starring Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan, and Bryan Cranston. The film won the Award for Best Director at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival.

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