{"product_id":"buzz-kill-9780316551403","title":"Buzz Kill","description":"\u003cb\u003eWhen the shadowy circumstances of a relative's death are brought to light, Jane and Lila are plunged into the recesses of an underground drug operation with links to a burgeoning fascist movement. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The Pool sisters have gone into business together: a down-home, if unequal, PI enterprise. But then Lila receives a shocking piece of news from an old friend of their Aunt Ruth's: their aunt's suicide more than a decade earlier might not have been what it seemed. A lawyer, she had represented a disgraced chemist working on a dangerous synthetic opioid. But once the client, Travis Nutt, was poised to lose, he went rogue and unleashed the adulterant as a street drug, in conjunction with a shadowy cartel. Can the twins solve the mystery of their aunt's death and bring this cultlike billionaire to justice? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Meanwhile, Jane has been invited to attend a writers' conference, an outlet she relishes until her dangerously confessional prose is seen by the wrong eyes. Her teenage daughter, Chloe, becomes the victim of a deepfake video while campaigning for class president and aggressively pursues the instigators, unaware of the muscle behind them. And old Harry, Jane's father, has stumbled upon a piece of unknown history that opens an unexpected door. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eBuzz Kill\u003c\/i\u003e is a rambunctious, kinetic, elastically braided narrative of a ride that shows J. Robert Lennon is at the height of his powers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJ. Robert Lennon\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of two story collections, \u003ci\u003ePieces For The Left Hand \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eSee You in Paradise\u003c\/i\u003e, and eight novels, including \u003ci\u003eMailman\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCastle\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFamiliar\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBroken River, \u003c\/i\u003eand most recently, \u003ci\u003eHard Girls\u003c\/i\u003e. He holds an MFA from the University of Montana, and has published short fiction in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker, Harper's, Playboy, Granta, The Paris Review, Electric Literature\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere. He has been anthologized in Best American Short Stories, Best American Nonrequired Reading, and Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards. His book reviews have appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review, The Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe London Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, and he lives in Ithaca, New York, where he teaches writing at Cornell University. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Mulholland Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51186308579602,"sku":"9780316551403","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_0402a9bd-d996-4379-8c75-92eb960a12ff.jpg?v=1744621181","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/buzz-kill-9780316551403","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}