"Here, as always, Jim Knipfel shows himself unique as a writer. Fusing murder and mortuary science in a novel of the humorously macabre, this Badger State native explores a "Wisconsin of the mind" where every commercial establishment sports a gigantic fiberglass mascot, and subplots burble like springs from a hillside. In Sheriff Koznowski, Knipfel creates a straightforward man of the law with more smarts than he can admit to, while surrounded by deputies incapable of the simplest of procedures–like thinking. You'll find yourself saying 'yah' and 'okeydokey' for at least a week after you've finished tearing through this delightful, engaging paean to the rural absurd."
–Derek Davis, author of
Gifts of a Dead Man
