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Horror Movie, June 2024
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Survivor Song, July 2021
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The Little Sleep, February 2021
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The Cabin at the End of the World, October 2019
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Growing Things and Other Stories, July 2019
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The Cabin at the End of the World, July 2018
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Disappearance at Devil\'s Rock, March 2017
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Disappearance at Devil's Rock, July 2016
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The Little Sleep
Paul Tremblay

Mark Genevich series #1
William Morrow Paperbacks
February 2021
On Sale: January 26, 2021
288 pages
ISBN: 0062995774
EAN: 9780062995773
Kindle: B08728KN93
Paperback / e-Book
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Fiction | Mystery Police Procedural | Mystery Private Eye

The Bram Stoker Award–winning 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 O’Nan

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.

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?

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.

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