2000 Edgar Award for Best First Novel (nominee)
2000 Lefty Award for Best Humorous Mystery Novel (nominee)
In Coconut Grove, Florida, Matt Arnold is preparing for a high school game of 'killer'. Armed only with a Squirtmaster 9000, Matt prepares to stake out the home of his intended victim, Jenny Herk. Only at the Herk household there is already trouble brewing...
For Jenny's jerk of a step-father, Arthur, has been embezzling money from his firm - and his employers are the type more likely to provide a concrete overcoat than a golden handshake. Outside the Herk residence two hit-men from New Jersey (and a very strange toad) are settling in for a real game of killer...
Genre: General Fiction
For Jenny's jerk of a step-father, Arthur, has been embezzling money from his firm - and his employers are the type more likely to provide a concrete overcoat than a golden handshake. Outside the Herk residence two hit-men from New Jersey (and a very strange toad) are settling in for a real game of killer...
Genre: General Fiction
Praise for this book
"A charming, witty and insightful storyteller. . ." - Kinky Friedman
"I laughed so hard I fell out of a chair. . ." - Stephen King
"The funniest book I've read in fifty years." - Elmore Leonard
"I laughed so hard I fell out of a chair. . ." - Stephen King
"The funniest book I've read in fifty years." - Elmore Leonard
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