Wigglers

Wigglers by Tony Arnold
A hard-boiled detective. A collard commune. A conspiracy that burrows deeper than anyone bargained for.
Meet Doyce "The Dixie Whiz" Whisanant — small-town private eye, unpublished pulp novelist, astrology hotline operator, and the last honest man in Argo, Georgia (or at least the loudest). When a mysterious, moneyed client named Candice hires him to investigate her long-lost first love — now a lay minister running a suspiciously well-funded "collard and worm farming" commune called Cruciferae Comrades — Doyce figures it's easy money and an excuse to avoid real work. He figures wrong.
Between a one-legged mechanic sidekick with a filthy mouth and a heart of gold, a foul-mouthed cockatoo who might be the only creature who truly loves him, a televangelist wrestling ministry gone sideways, swamp-dwelling twin sisters with a very particular skill set, and lights in the sky that shouldn't be there, Doyce stumbles toward a truth stranger — and slimier — than any case he ever dreamed up for his unfinished detective novels.
Wigglers is a howling, unrepentant, laugh-out-loud plunge into backwoods noir — equal parts pulp mystery, Southern Gothic fever dream, and something entirely its own. Told entirely in Doyce's own unmistakable voice, it's a book that refuses to apologize for a single word of it.
Not for the faint of heart. Not for the politically tidy. Absolutely for anyone who likes their fiction dangerous, hilarious, and completely unhinged. If you liked feeling like you shouldn't be laughing this hard — you'll love Wigglers.

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