No Regrets, Coyote A Novel [Paperback]

On Christmas Eve in Eden, Florida, Wylie Coyote Melville, therapist and forensic consultant, is summoned to a horrific crime scene. Five members of the Halliday family have been brutally killed. Wylies rare talent is an ability to read a crime scene, consider the evidence seen and unseen, and determine whats likely to have happened. The police are soon convinced that the deaths were a murder-suicide carried out by a broken and desperate Chafin Halliday, but Wylies not so sure.Ghoulishly funny. . . . Dufresne is an original talent.Marvelous.No matter how sad, ridiculous, terrifying, poignant, goofy,or heroic a particular passage, Dufresne seems to be havingthe time of his life.A novel so good you want to throw a party for it. Its tense, unnerving, fearless, and funny as hell. Beautifully rendered on every page, it may be a crime novel in name but its literature for the ages.John Dufresne has created a unique and compelling sleuth in Wylie Coyote Melville. His quirky adventures will keep you reading.Takes noir fiction and slivers it with shards of humor, ironic insight, and an almost hallucinogenic specificity. This is lean and honest storytelling that is as moving as it is engaging. Read this book. Believe me, you'll have no regrets!Hilariously dark . . . brings to mind the work of such masters as Donald Westlake and Elmore Leonard. It's a lurid pleasure from beginning to end.Sit back, put a cooler of beer by your chair, and settle in, you'll be here awhile:Touching, nervy, richly detailed, and populated with a cast of characters who are utterly unique and terrifyingly real. Its humor is abundant and warm-hearted, and its detective hero is unlike any we've ever met before. American crime fiction has just gotten a lot more interesting.Nelson DeMille meets Carl Hiassan, and the result (like the ending) is totally satisfying.An extraordinary novel. . . . Steeped in place, wholly original, it is, line-by-line, one of the best books I've lÃ