Publisher's Weekly review of No Sleep till Wonderland, plus a random math fact

Solid! And Derivative of Hitchcock is the name of my new band.

No Sleep Till Wonderland Paul Tremblay. Holt, $14 paper (288p) ISBN 978-0-8050-8850-2

While somewhat derivative of Hitchcock, Tremblay's second novel featuring South Boston PI Mark Genevich improves enough on the first, The Little Sleep (2009), to suggest that the unusual hero—a narcoleptic sleuth subject to unpredictable blackouts—can sustain a series. Genevich is scraping the bottom of the barrel after one of his frequent...