No Sleep Till Wonderland: A Novel

Narcoleptic Southie PI Mark Genevich returns in this sequel to The Little Sleep from the Bram Stoker Award–winning author of Survivor Song and The Cabin at the End of the World.

Like most private eyes, Mark
Genevich is something of a lone wolf. So group therapy isn’t a great fit. But
his landlord/mother is convinced it will help his narcolepsy—ignoring the fact
that his disorder is a physical condition. Truth is, he has the time. It’s been
a year and a half since his last big case, or any case.

It’s never a wise choice to go on a two-day bender with someone you meet in group therapy, but there’s something about Gus that intrigues Genevich. And when his new drinking buddy asks him to protect a female friend who’s being stalked, the PI finally has a case. 

Unfortunately, he’s about to sleepwalk right into a very real nightmare. Before long he’s a suspect in an arson investigation and running afoul of everyone from the cops to a litigious lawyer and a bouncer with anger management issues. Genevich must keep his wits about him—always a challenge for a detective prone to unexpected blackouts and hallucinations—to solve the crime and live to show up at his next therapy session.

In Paul Tremblay’s follow-up to The Little Sleep, unreliable narrator Mark Genevich once again leads readers on a surreal and suspenseful wild ride through the mean streets of South Boston and his own dreamlike reality.

“[The] writing sings with all these wonderful weird free associations…Tremblay’s voice is one of the most original in hardboiled PI fiction, and he has definitely breathed new life into the genre… Nobody right now is writing more original or better PI novels than Tremblay.”  - Dave Zeltserman, author of Pariah

“Snappy prose, a brilliantly original detective and a cast of sharply drawn low-lifes—Paul Tremblay mixes it up with style.”  - Simon Lewis, author of Bad Traffic

“Tremblay somehow manages to channel Franz Kafka, write like Raymond Chandler, and whip up a completely original, utterly whack-a-doodle reinvention of the detective novel. This book rocks.” - Mark Haskell Smith, author of Salty

“The plot twists satisfy…[and] the clever writing will keep readers turning the pages." - Publishers Weekly

“No Sleep Till Wonderland delivers on the tremendous promise of The Little Sleep, simultaneously paying homage to classic noir fiction while creating a damaged and irrevocably lost anti-hero in PI Mark Genevich…This is a novel filled with black humor but an even blacker subtext that makes the reader question the nature of reality and self: heady stuff for a crime novel, for sure, but Paul Tremblay is a fearless writer and No Sleep Till Wonderland is positively magnetic fiction.”  - Tod Goldberg, author of Other Resort Cities and Simplify