Novelist & Playwright  
   

 Murder in Gutenthal
 
"I am Schneppa Kjnals. I am everywhere. I am the eyes at the back of your head. I see the world in a stepped-in cowpie. I am a good neighbour for a fee."  

 

CSI: Zipper Bible

Armin Wiebe's most consciously Mennonite novel.

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The other Gutenthal novels:

The Salvation of Yasch Siemens

The Second Coming of Yeeat Shpanst

Gutenthal Speaks!

 

Shortlisted for
McNally-Robinson Book of the Year Award
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    What Readers Say:

... a funny, lively, incongruous parody of Mennonite village life, murder mysteries,
and the myth of the detective hero.
    --Di Brandt, author of questions I asked my mother, writing in Prairie Bookworld
The irony of all this play on fiction versus reality is that Wiebe includes, in this
wildly improbable fiction, an undeniably realistic, harrowing account of the
smouldering hatreds, stifled desires, and even insanity that exist beneath the veneer of Gutenthal. It is this depth beneath the layers of surface brilliance that makes Murder in Gutenthal an even better book than Wiebe's hilarious The Salvation of Yasch Siemens.
    --Edna Froese, NeWest Review
 

...Wiebe has again managed to create a narrator-character who is both klutzy and loveable.
 
             --Birk Sproxton, author ofThe Red-Headed Woman with the Black Black Heart,
writing in Border Crossings