Black Hornet
A Lew Griffin Mystery

With Black Hornet, I'm realizing that the Lew Griffin series is entirely the written memories of an older man looking back on and contemplating major events in his life. While the first novel, The Long-Legged Fly, jumps around in time to study a changing man through different decades and the sec......more

A real find! It was a sales clerk at a long closed bookstore that recommended James Sallis to me, and I casually picked up a copy of Black Hornet. Now, some years later, I read Sallis story about Lew Griffin's attempts to track down a sniper in mid-Sixties new Orleans. There's something different ab......more

The third Lew Griffin book steps back in time and follows Lew in the sixties. This is my favorite of the volumes as it introduces all the characters and provides the usual literary references (Himes and Borges), and mix of intimate character study and existentialism but married to an evocation of th......more

Count me as a James Sallis fan, please.......more

As expected, Sallis slays it again. Race riots, snipers, heat, coffee, booze and characters called things like Doo-Whop, Hosie and Papa. Book three hits the ground in1968, tensions are high in New Orleans and Lew finds himself in the middle of the chaos. Sallis' genius is that he gives us an account......more