Little Sleep

The Bram Stoker Awardwinning author of Survivor Song and The Cabin at the End of the World 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.*Stewart ONanThe Little Sleep is Paul Tremblays 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.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 helpor does she? A man has stolen her fingers, she claims, and shed 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?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 mysteryguaranteed to keep you up all night, even if Mark Genevich wont be joining you.