Books I Read Since I Turned 50 1/2

Pest Control, by Bill Fitzhugh (1997)

This was a funny quick read, a very light mystery. I found Fitzhugh through his "back cover" endorsement on a Christopher Moore book. The main character Bob Dillon (NOT Dylan! which is a repeated joke in the book) was an exterminator/entymologist looking to make his fortune through a "natural" approach to pest control. This meant him breeding cockroach killing bugs. Through a series of events, he was mistaken as a people exterminator, i.e. assassin. Lots of humor about other assassins out to get Bob, his "protection" by the #1 assassin Klaus, family stuff with his wife and daughter, and lots and lots of bug references (including genus and species!).