James Sallis meets Mindhunter in this stylish and atmospheric noir set in small town Iowa in the 1960s a midcentury heartland gothic with abounding twists and a feverish conclusion Local outcast Rigby Sellers lives in squalor on a dilapidated houseboat moored on the Mississippi River. With only stolen mannequins and the river to keep him company Rigby begins to spiral from the bizarre to the threatening. As a year of drought gives way to a season of squalls a girl is found trembling on the side