Ghost of a Flea bears the marks of a fierce and original writer working at full power -- Kai Maristead * L.A. Times * His writing is literate, intelligent, deeply moving, his exploration of what it is to be human is incisive, heartbreaking yet ultimately uplifting. Ghost Of A Flea is a book that you don't want to finish and you can't put down -- Cath Staincliffe * Manchester Evening News * Allusive and stylish, this stark metaphysical landscape will leave a resounding impression -- Maxim Jakubowski * Guardian * With Ghost of a Flea, the sixth and last Griffin novel, Sallis brings things to closure and, with a stunning flourish, transfigures everything that came before into an ingenious, resonant whole -- Gene Seymour * newsday.com * With "Ghost of a Flea," the sixth and last Griffin novel, Sallis brings things to closure and, with a stunning flourish, transfigures everything that came before into an ingenious, resonant whole -- Gene Seymour * newsday.com *
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 Littrature policire.