The Long-Legged Fly

Part One of the Lew Griffin Series

There are those who vanish into the steaming New Orleans night - and it is part time Private Investigator, Repo-man and blues afficionado Lew Griffin's job to find them. A prisoner of the bottle, his past and his skin, Griffin knows every hidden corner of Hell...and is on intimate terms with the demons who dwell there. But the disapperence of a militant woman activist is about to set Griffin on a roller-coaster careening towards rock bottom - carrying the brilliant, tormented black P.I. ever closer to a nightmare that threatens to hit him where he lives..and more brutally than he ever imagined possible.

• James Sallis is perfect for fans of Cormac McCarthy, Hunter S. Thompson and Meg Gardiner.
• Sallis is a decorated writer, receiving a lifetime acheivement award from Bouchercon, the Hammett Award for literary excellence in crime writing, and the Grand Prix de Littérature Policière.
• The Cannes award-winning film Drive, starring Ryan Gosling, is derived from his novel of that title.

"The Long-Legged Fly" was written by James Sallis.

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 Littérature policière.

Yes, "The Long-Legged Fly" is part of the "Lew Griffin" series. It's book 1 in the series.