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Patty and Walter Berglund were the new pioneers of old St. Paul—the gentrifiers, the hands-on parents, the avant-garde of the Whole Foods generation. Patty was the perfect sort of neighbor, who could inform you where to recycle your batteries and how to get the local cops to actually do their job. She was an enviably ideal mother and the wife ...

“This book has got it all—an instantaneous classic.”—Lee Kid, author of The Hard Way

“A tale as tight as a drum. Doesn’t get any better than this.”—Mary-Ann Tirone Smith, author of the Poppy Rice mysteries

“It is a pleasure marching off to war together with spirited Billy Boyle. He is a charmer, richly imagined and vividly rendered. ...