Mr. Clarinet - Hardcover

Stone, Nick

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0060897295 ISBN 13: 9780060897291

Publisher: HarperCollins, 2007

Synopsis

Hired by a powerful white Haitian family to find their young son, who has been missing for two years, former private investigator Max Mingus struggles to set aside painful memories and tackles a web of local corruption and greed that threatens his tenacious hold on sanity. 35,000 first printing.

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Review:

Painstakingly researched, effectively written and well conceived, it deserves all of its pre-release hype.--Big Issue in the North

From the Publisher:

MR CLARINET by Nick Stone is one of the most exciting – and perhaps the most original – debut novel I have ever worked on (and I have been a commissioning editor for eleven years now). It’s a dark, chilling thriller set partly in Miami and partly in the voodoo-dominated island of Haiti, where over the decades a number of children have gone missing. A myth has grown up on the island about a pied-piper like figure called ‘Mr Clarinet’ who spirits the children away. When our hero, private eye Max Mingus, is hired to find the missing son of a billionaire he is forced to travel to Haiti and discover the reality behind the myth. And it is very scary...

It was Nick’s writing style that first sold the novel to me. His prose is so rich and vivid and required hardly any editing (so rare for a debut!). We did, however, work a little on the plot, and I remember one day when I was reading a new draft the hairs on the back of my neck starting to rise. The plot and the prose and the characters had all come together to such effect that I knew I had something special here.

MR CLARINET adopts the conventions of the crime thriller but takes them into a new and exciting direction. If you love John Connolly’s novels you’ll love this, if you loved the film ANGEL HEART you’ll love this. But basically, if you love dark thrillers that give you the chills they don’t come much better than this.

As evidence of the growing anticipation for Nick's debut, Michael Joseph/Penguin have recently had to take action to remove early book proofs of MR CLARINET that were being illegally sold on Ebay. So don't miss out on this amazing novel - just please wait until it is officially published in January 2006!

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0060897295
• ISBN 13: 9780060897291
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 431