Little Sleep

<p><strong>The Bram Stoker Award-winning author of <em>Survivor Song</em> and <em>The Cabin at the End of the World</em> slices dices and spins the neo-noir in his own strange way in his fast smart and completely satisfying* debut novel featuring a narcoleptic detective from Southie.</strong><br/></p><p><strong>*Stewart O'Nan</strong><br/><br/>The Little Sleep is Paul Tremblay's nod to Raymond Chandler starring a PI who nods off. Mark Genevich is a South Boston private detective who happens to have a severe form of narcolepsy which includes hypnagogic hallucinations like waking dreams. Unsurprisingly his practice is not exactly booming.</p><p>Then one day the daughter of an ambitious district attorney and a contestant on the reality talent show American Star named Jennifer Times comes to him for help--or does she? A man has stolen her fingers she claims and she'd like Genevich to get them back. When the PI wakes up from what must surely be a hallucination the only evidence that his client may have been real is a manila envelope on his desk. Inside are revealing photos of Jennifer. Is Genevich dealing with a blackmailer or an exhibitionist? And where is the mysterious young lady who hopefully still has her fingers attached?</p><p>The detective has no choice but to plunge into what proves to be a bad dream of a case with twists and turns even his subconscious could not anticipate. Chloroforming the hardboiled crime genre then shaking it awake and spinning it around Paul Tremblay delivers a wholly original wildly imaginative gleefully entertaining noir mystery--guaranteed to keep you up all night even if Mark Genevich won't be joining you.</p>