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THREE DROPS OF BLOOD AND A CLOUD OF COCAINE
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| By: |
Quentin Mouron |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£8.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1908524839 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781908524836 |
| Publisher: |
BITTER LEMON PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
1 June, 2017 |
| Pages: |
228 |
| Description: |
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. |
| Synopsis: |
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 psychopath is at work, a conclusion reinforced when a second, similar murder is committed. It looks like the work of an artist, killing purely to escape suburban ennui. Franck dominates the story, a disturbing, edgy, totally decadent character, always over dressed, an actor with too much make-up, a man always rushing to the bathroom for another line of coke, revealing the darker workings of Watertown and of the case with a blood curdling laugh. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Bitter Lemon Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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