Lew Griffin is a a black man living in New Orleans, haunted by lost loves - including the son he assumes to be dead.

He's a university lecturer, a novelist and, if he can be persuaded, a Private Eye.

Just as Lew starts to pick up his writing after a four year hiatus, he is interrupted by a call from an Emergency Room medical student.

A victim of a truck accident has been admitted. He was found carrying one of Lew's books - signed - so Lew is invited along to the hospital to try and identify the young man. A student then asks Lew if he can help him track down his brother who has also disappeared.

From a series of detective novels written by James Sallis, first published in 1997.

Read by Ray Shell.

Abridged in ten parts and produced by Gordon House.

Made for BBC 7 and first broadcast in March 2006. Show less