title: Catch of a Lifetime: A Cricket Creek Novel
author:  LuAnn McLane 
description: LuAnn McLane lives in Florence, Kentucky, just outside Cincinnati, Ohio. When she takes breaks from writing, she enjoys long walks with her husband, watching chick flicks with her daughter, and trying to keep up with her three active sons.
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  Praise for Eye of the Cricket
  
  
  
  
  
  “One of the most intriguing, disturbing, literate, intelligent novels I’ve
  read in years, and Lew Griffin is one of the most flat-out human detectives
  since Marlowe. There’s enough story here for three good novels, but Sallis
  crafts them into one truly fine one.”
  
  
  —David Bradley
  
  
  
  
  
  “A laudable fusion of the detective novel and the literary novel, at once
  eerily surreal and darkly realistic, and often quite profound. James Sallis’s
  novels, as one of the characters here says of Griffin’s books, ‘tell the
  truth.’ No reader can ask more of any work of fiction.”
  
  
  —Bill Pronzini
  
  
  
  
  
  “The fourth book in the Lew Griffin series . . . proves once again that Sallis
  is one of the least conventional and most interesting writers working in the
  mystery genre.”
  
  
  —Publishers Weekly
  
  
  
  
  
  “Loss is what Eye of the Cricket is about: that and search . .