In his new book, Bemidji novelist Kevin McColley begins to tell the story of an unsolved murder in a small Minnesota town but it becomes a story on the indignities of old age. "Praying to a Laughing God", which has been nominated for a national book award, is a bit of a change for McColley. His first four novels were aimed at young people, but his new book deals with the problems of a much older generation.