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Three Drops of Blood and a Cloud of Cocaine
Quentin Mouron
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Description for Three Drops of Blood and a Cloud of Cocaine
Paperback. A dark, literary, crime novel set near Boston. Written with the controlled violence of a Tarantino film, it is the story of Franck, a private detective of sorts from NY, a cokehead and a dandy, who, in a race against time and the local sheriff, investigates two brutal murders committed by what could be the same psychopath. Num Pages: 228 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 133 x 29. .
Jimmy Henderson, retired, in his 70s, a man without much of a history, is found mutilated (tongue cut out, eyes gouged) in his Ford pick-up truck, bang in the middle of Watertown, Massachusetts. Paul McCarthy is the town sheriff and in charge of the investigation. Like Watertown he's rather featureless and unimaginative, married, two children, a man desperately trying to keep some sort of boundary between the sordidness of his investigations and his family life. Soon, Franck, a young private detective visiting from NY, takes an interest in the case. Paul and Franck come to the same conclusion; perhaps a ... Read more
Jimmy Henderson, retired, in his 70s, a man without much of a history, is found mutilated (tongue cut out, eyes gouged) in his Ford pick-up truck, bang in the middle of Watertown, Massachusetts. Paul McCarthy is the town sheriff and in charge of the investigation. Like Watertown he's rather featureless and unimaginative, married, two children, a man desperately trying to keep some sort of boundary between the sordidness of his investigations and his family life. Soon, Franck, a young private detective visiting from NY, takes an interest in the case. Paul and Franck come to the same conclusion; perhaps a ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bitter Lemon Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
228
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781908524836
SKU
V9781908524836
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About Quentin Mouron
Quentin Mouron is a poet and a novelist. He was born in Lausanne in 1989 and is Swiss and Canadian. In 2011 he won the prix Alpes-Jura for his novel Au point d'effusion des egouts . He has written three other highly acclaimed novels before Three Drops of Blood and a Cloud of Cocaine.
Reviews for Three Drops of Blood and a Cloud of Cocaine
Mouron makes his English-language debut with a knife-edged noir set in Watertown, Mass., which combines spare prose with a compelling murder mystery plot. Publishers Weekly Three Drops of Blood and a Cloud of Cocaine is Quentin Mouron's English-language debut, and what a debut it is. Disturbingly violent, yet never gratuitous, it is perfectly balanced with wondrous prose ... Read more