Salt River

Description

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 of his black private detective. Two years have passed since Turner's amour, Val Bjorn, was shot as they sat together on the porch of his cabin.Then the sheriff's long-lost son comes ploughing down Main Street into City Hall in what appears to be a stolen car. And waiting at Turner's cabin is his good friend, Eldon Brown.

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 Litterature policiere.

Haunting . . . Sallis writes poetic rings around the subject -- Marilyn Stasio * New York Times * Sallis is a gifted polymath: poet, biographer, translator, essayist, musician and prolific (if criminally neglected) novelist. His Turner books are little gems, with their sharp descriptions and melancholy reflections -- Adam Woog * Seattle Times * As we come to expect from Sallis, Salt River is filled with insight, redemption, and tantalizing passages -- Woody Haut * Crime Time * A superior piece of literary crime fiction -- Rob Kitchin * View from the Blue House * sublime third novel to feature the philosophical John Turner * Publishers Weekly *