MURDER IN GUTENTHAL
A SCHNEPPA KJNALS MYSTERY
Shortlisted for
McNally-Robinson Book of the Year Award
"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."
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