James Sallis Eye Of The Cricket

"The storm came in over the lake, bowing the shaggy heads of young trees and snapping branches off the old, blowing out of Metairie where the white folks live. In my own back yard a hundred-year-old water oak at last gave in, splitting in half as though a broadsword had struck it, opening like a book..."

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.

Now a derelict has appeared in a New Orleans hospital claiming to be Lewis Griffin and displaying a copy of one of Lew's novels. It is the beginning of a quest that will take Griffin into his own past while he tries to deal in the present with a search for three missing young men.

01 Ray Shell begins a reading of James Sallis' crime novel, featuring detective Lew Griffin on the trail of his missing son.

02 The New Orleans detective launches a search deep into his past.

03 The detective discovers some of his New Orleans neighbours waiting to meet him.

04 With his son missing and a bogus Lew Griffin at large, the detective takes action.

05 The New Orleans detective is on the trail of a missing teenager - and an imposter.

06 As the New Orleans detective's investigations continue, he reflects on meeting Deborah.

07 Hunting a teenager, the New Orleans detective…