Jason Keltner, a small-time musician and composer, needs the money he is offered to babysit an unpleasant character named Paul Reno in Coffin's Got the Dead Guy on the Inside by Keith Snyder.

It sounds simple enough, even though Reno is no one's friend, but it becomes a dangerous task as Reno and his associates and Keltner and his friends begin a frenzied search for the "dongle," whatever that is. It might help if they knew.

Snyder writes well, but his story is way-out. If you like weirdos, this one's for you.

-- Ruth Robinson
Chatanooga Times