"Truman Kicklighter is a cool old dude."

- St. Petersburg Times

Kathy Hogan Trocheck, whose Callahan Garrity mysteries gathered huge acclaim, offers up a wryly-observed, richly detailed landscape of faded Floridian glory peopled with crackers and hackers, holy rollers and small-time gangsters, snowbirds and more. At the center of it all is Truman Kicklighter himself, who approaches the trials and little pleasures of retirement with an utterly infectious mix of sentiment and cynicism.