{"product_id":"three-drops-of-blood-and-quentin-mouron-9781908524836","title":"Three Drops of Blood and a Cloud of Cocaine","description":"\u003cp\u003eAfter Joel Dicker, here is the latest literary sensation from Switzerland: brilliant twenty-five-year-old novelist Quentin Mouron with his first mystery novel, which garnered ecstatic reviews in the French-speaking world. This is the first time his work is available in English.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThree Drops of Blood and a Cloud of Cocaine\u003c\/i\u003e is a darkly humorous literary and psychological mystery set in a Boston still suffering from the consequences of the financial crisis. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWritten with the pace and controlled violence of the very best Tarantino film \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen old Jimmy Henderson is found murdered in his Ford pick-up truck in a suburb of Boston, Sheriff Paul McCarthy takes charge of the investigation. Soon, Franck, a young private detective visiting from New York, also takes an interest in the case. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBreaking the conventions of the genre, the novel holds a satirical mirror to our society by entering the minds of two men right on the edge of sanity. Sheriff McCarthy, a church-going man, desperately trying to keep a boundary between the sordidness of his investigations and his private life. And Franck, a violent, decadent dandy, always rushing to the bathroom for another line of coke, revealing the darker workings of the case with a blood curdling laugh. When the two men finally meet the entire existence of the sheriff as a righteous family man - and probably as a police officer -- will be turned on its head. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Mouron is a revelation. He juggles characters with ease in a seamy world perfectly evoked, and all of it is done in a taut high-tempo style. \" HuffPost \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Three Drops follows the US tradition of the searing social novel, literary, troubling, to be read in one sitting. It leaves a bitter and vivid after-taste, like the morning after a sleepless night.\" Le Temps \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Quentin Mouron\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1908524839\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781908524836\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bitter Lemon Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/11\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 232\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.70h x 5.00w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/24\/2017","brand":"Quentin Mouron","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48448017236223,"sku":"9781908524836","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e16fa5c9-0d82-49f2-9cee-b4245f91b081.jpg?v=1777236340","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/three-drops-of-blood-and-quentin-mouron-9781908524836","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}