Moth

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Moth
Authors and Contributors      By (author) James Sallis
Cover design or artwork by Elsa Mathern
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:256
Dimensions(mm): Height 198,Width 129
Category/GenreTrue Crime
Crime and mystery
ISBN/Barcode 9781842437001
ClassificationsDewey:813.54
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Oldcastle Books Ltd
Imprint No Exit Press
Publication Date 25 May 2012
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

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-end world of users and abusers...leaving behind a crack-addicted infant and a mystery. Abandoning his former career for the safety of teaching, Lew Griffin now spends his time in an old house in the garden district - determined to keep his distance from the temptations of the New Orleans night. But an inescapable obligation to an old friend is drawing the tormented Lew like a moth to a flame.

Author Biography

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.

Reviews

An intelligent, enigmatic book . . . engrossing and disturbing * New York Times * There is danger, violence, suspense; there are characters so vivid as to be documentaries in miniature and milieus as perceived by all the senses . . . the reader has to hope the remarkable biography of Lew Griffin will continue * Los Angeles Times * Another walk on Louisiana's wild side ... even stronger than The Long-Legged Fly * Kirkus Reviews *