Three drops of blood and a cloud of cocaine
Mouron, Quentin, 1989-2017
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MODERN & CONTEMPORARY FICTION (POST C 1945). 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.
Main title:
Three drops of blood and a cloud of cocaine / Quentin Mouron ; translated by W. Donald Wilson.
Author:
Mouron, Quentin, 1989-, authorWilson, William Donald, 1938-, translator
Imprint:
London Bitter Lemon Press, 2017.©2017.
Collation:
206 pages ; 20 cm.
Notes:
First published in French as Trois gouttes de sang et un nuage de coke, 2015.Translated from the French.
ISBN:
97819085248361908524839
Language:
EnglishFrench
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BRN:
327330