And Dead Anyway is a preposterous story beginning with a woman and her husband being shot in the head while sitting at home on their sofa... But nobody dislikes a revenge story, and this is a beaut. Knopf is clever, meticulous and patient...

Dead Anyway (2013) Edward must choose between his life as an unemployed teacher separated from his wife and a new life with an exotic dancer and millions of dollars.

Dead Anyway is a riveting tale of a rather ordinary man (an overweight computer nerd and a compulsive researcher and problem-solver) who is transformed after his wife is murdered and he survives being shot in the head.

I thought Dead Anyway was extremely witty and clever, besides being very well written. It couldn't have been easy to keep track of all the schemes and goings-on that the main character Arthur Cathcart was both planning and in the midst of.

In DEAD ANYWAY by Chris Knopf (©2012), Arthur has a great life, until he nearly loses it. Dragging himself back to the living, he sets out to find who is responsible. Although we know, generally, what he’s up to, it’s fascinating how he goes about trying to identify the culprits.

‎Dead Anyway is a comic zombie graphic novel anthology. It includes comic stories about zombies by award winning artists, including professional cartoonists, comic book artists, children’s book illustrators, concept artists, animators and designers.

Dead Anyway (Thorndike Reviewers' Choice) Hardcover – Large Print, February 22, 2013 by Chris Knopf (Author)

When she complies, he shoots them both anyway. Florencia dies, but Arthur merely hovers in a coma for months. Convinced upon his return to life that his killer’s been monitoring his progress with a view to finishing him off, he persuades his neurologist sister, Evelyn, to have him declared dead.

" Dead Anyway is a perfectly rendered murder mystery with enough unpredictable twists and turns to satisfy even the most hardened aficionado of the genre. Dry humor is scattered throughout. Dry humor is scattered throughout.