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Seventy Times Seven

Seventy Times Seven

Alex Mar

A masterful, revelatory work of literary non-fiction about a teenage girl’s shocking crime — and its extraordinary aftermath.

Becoming Mr Nice

Becoming Mr Nice

Amber Marks

In this beautifully designed book, Howard Marks’ daughter, writer and lawyer Amber Marks, has collated and curated highlights from Howard´s extensive and, until now, unseen personal archive. The book features jottings, drawings and photographs from Howard´s Welsh childhood and Teddy boy years in post-war Britain…

Eye of the Cricket

Eye of the Cricket

James Sallis

Lew Griffin is a survivor, a black man in New Orleans, a detective, a teacher, a writer. And he is a man subject to all of the frailties to which we are heir. Having spent years finding others, he has lost his son…and himself in the process….

Moth

Moth

James Sallis

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….

The Long-Legged Fly

The Long-Legged Fly

James Sallis

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….

Black Hornet

Black Hornet

James Sallis

In a time of anger, activism, and bitter racial tensions, a sniper has appeared to heat up an already sweltering New Orleans summer – by tearing up innocent people like paper targets. The shooter’s sixth fatality is cut down while she is walking at Lew Griffin’s side….