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Volg de reis van een zwarte privédetective die zijn weg vindt in het levendige en raadselachtige New Orleans. Elke zaak die hij aanpakt, legt lagen van menselijke complexiteit en de verborgen geheimen van de stad bloot. Deze serie dompelt lezers onder in een wereld van intriges, spanning en onverwachte wendingen, waarbij gerechtigheid vaak een hoge prijs heeft. Duik in de zuidelijke sfeer waar geschiedenis en heden met elkaar verweven zijn in aangrijpende misdaadverhalen.

The Long-Legged Fly
Bluebottle
Moth
Ghost of a Flea
Black Hornet
Eye of the Cricket

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  1. 1

    The Long-Legged Fly

    • 256bladzijden
    • 9 uur lezen
    3,8(31)Tarief

    As much a classic detective story as it is a literary masterpiece, The Long-Legged Fly introduces us to Lew Griffin: tough, smart, and living in a corner of society where life is fought for as much as it is lived. In steamy New Orleans, black private detective Lew Griffin has taken on a seemingly hopeless missing-person case. The trail takes him through the underbelly of the French Quarter with its bar girls, pimps, and tourist attractions. As his search leads to one violent dead end and then another, Griffin is confronted by the realization that his own life has come to resemble those of the people he is attempting to find.

    The Long-Legged Fly
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    Moth

    • 288bladzijden
    • 11 uur lezen
    4,1(29)Tarief

    Lew Griffin, now fifty years old, has abandoned his former career as a New Orleans private investigator for the safety of teaching. But his old life draws him back. One of the very few lights from Lew Griffin’s dark and violent past has flickered out. His one-time lover, LaVerne Adams, is dead—and her daughter, Alouette, has vanished into a seamy, dead-end world of users and abusers, leaving behind a critically fragile premature infant daughter. Griffin is determined to keep his distance from the dangers of the New Orleans night. But his inescapable obligation to an old friend keeps bringing him back like a moth to a flame.

    Moth
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    Black Hornet

    • 256bladzijden
    • 9 uur lezen
    3,8(17)Tarief

    With this flashback novel to Lew Griffin’s past, James Sallis takes readers to 1960s New Orleans, a sun-baked city of Black Panthers and other separatists. A sniper has fatally shot five people. When the sixth victim is killed, Lew Griffin is standing beside her. Though they are virtual strangers, it is left to Griffin to avenge her death, or at least to try and make some sense of it. His unlikely allies include a crusading journalist, a longtime supplier of mercenary arms and troops, and a bail bondsman.

    Black Hornet
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    Eye of the Cricket

    • 336bladzijden
    • 12 uur lezen
    4,2(6)Tarief

    Finding people is what former private investigator Lew Griffin excels at. The terrible irony is that the exception is his own missing son. Dreams, memories, and reality run together to form his own darkest night. Lew Griffin is a survivor, a black man in New Orleans—a teacher, a writer, and an ex-detective. Having spent years finding others, he has lost his son—and himself in the process. Now a derelict has appeared in a New Orleans hospital claiming to be Lewis Griffin and toting a copy of one of Lew’s novels. Learning the truth is a quest that will take Griffin into his own past as he tries to deal with the present: a search for three missing young men.

    Eye of the Cricket
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    Bluebottle

    • 216bladzijden
    • 8 uur lezen
    4,0(3)Tarief

    "As Lew Griffin leaves a New Orleans music club with an older white woman he has just met, someone fires a shot and Lew goes down. When he comes to, he discovers that most of a year has gone by since that night. Who was the woman? Which of them was the target? Who was the shooter? Somewhere in the Crescent City-and in the white supremacist movement crawling through it-there's an answer. But to get to it, he is going to have to work with the only people offering help, people he knows he should avoid"-- Provided by publisher

    Bluebottle
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    Ghost of a Flea

    • 312bladzijden
    • 11 uur lezen
    4,2(5)Tarief

    The mystery of private investigator Lew Griffin is revealed in the conclusion of this critically acclaimed, groundbreaking series. In his old house in uptown New Orleans, Lew Griffin stands alone in a dark room, looking out. Behind him on the bed is a body. Instead of speaking, he reflects on his life—his failing relationship, his missing son, the fact that he hasn’t written in years—and how the two of them ended up there. In a novel as much about identity as about crime, the answers to Lew’s personal mysteries begin to become clear in the series’ brilliantly constructed climax.

    Ghost of a Flea