52. The Blight Way, by Patrick F. McManus

The first book in the Sheriff Bo Tully series. Bo Tully, the sheriff of Blight County, Idaho, is a man who has been widowed for ten years, believes most women to be in love with him (but has little luck with them), and sometimes plays fast and loose with the law, calling it "the Blight way." There's a very funny scene where he tries to charm a woman by giving her a "warm look" (which he read about in a Danielle Steele novel), only to have her look at him strangely and wonder if he was okay, because he looked like he was about to erp on the table. The novel also handles profanity in a humorous way -- instead of actually saying the word, it says that the character uttered a ten-letter profanity, or a six-letter profanity, etc. Pretty funny.


"Oh, you can’t help that," said the Cat: "we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad."
"How do you know I’m mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn’t have come here.”

- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland