{"product_id":"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\u003eWritten with the pace and controlled violence of the very best Tarantino film\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bitter Lemon Press, Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47060023673072,"sku":"9781908524836","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781908524836_p0.jpg?v=1763622268","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781908524836","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}