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Tim Dorsey

Ninety-Two in the Shade

Ninety-Two in the Shade

by Thomas McGuane

I’m an evangelist for this book. One of the best and most-often overlooked Florida novels, mainly because Thomas left the state for Montana. But he married Jimmy Buffett’s sister, which counts for something, although I’m not sure what.

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The Stingray Shuffle

The Stingray Shuffle (0)

When serial-killing local Florida historian Serge A. Storms is off his meds, no one is safe — not Russian hoods, Jamaican mobsters, spoiled frat boys, women’s book clubs, drug dealers, bad Vegas-rejected local lounge acts — especially when $5 million in cash in a bugged suitcase is still racing up and down the East…

Cadillac Beach

Cadillac Beach (0)

And busting out of Chattahoochee State Hospital … without his meds The thrill-killing Floridaphile needs to get to the bottom of his bookie grandad’s bizarre 1964 death — not to mention launch “Serge & Lenny’s Florida Experience,” the new Miami specialty tour venture he’s cooked up with his best brain-dead druggi…

Torpedo Juice

Torpedo Juice (0)

The drinks are on Sunshine State historian/spree killer Serge A. Storms, who’s decided it’s high time he got married. So he’s motoring down to the Florida Keys — the ultimate end of the line — in search of Ms. Right . . .

and finding his doped-up basket case bud Coleman along the way. But for Serge, "getting h…

Hurricane Punch

Hurricane Punch (0)

That lovable, “under”-undermedicated dispenser of truth, justice, and trivia is back with a vengeance—just as his cherished home state is about to take a beating from a conga line of hurricanes bearing down on the peninsula. But as Serge and his burnout buddy Coleman go storm-chasing, bodies begin turning up at a d…

Orange Crush

Orange Crush (0)

The Republicans’ “golden boy” — and a loyal, unquestioning tool of the powerful special interests — handsome, unthreatening, Florida governor-by-default Marlon Conrad seems a virtual shoo-in for re-election. That is, until he undergoes a radical personality shift during a bloody military action in the Balkans. Now it’…

Gator A-Go-Go

Gator A-Go-Go (0)

That’s right: Serge and Coleman do spring break

It’s been a long time coming, but they’re at the party now—and you’ll never look at a Frisbee the same way again.

One spring break location obviously isn’t enough for Serge, so he must hit them all, traveling through various historic locales, spewing nuggets …

Hammerhead Ranch Motel

Hammerhead Ranch Motel (0)

There’s a different schemer or slimeball behind every door: cocaine duckpins who have survived only by the dumbest fortune, hard-luck gigolos desperate to score, undercover cops busting undercover cops who are running sting operations on undercover cops. And just down the row, local historian and spree killer Serge A. S…

Florida Roadkill

Florida Roadkill (0)

Sunshine State trivia buff Serge A. Storms loves eliminating jerks and pests. His drug-addled partner Coleman loves cartoons. Hot stripper Sharon Rhodes loves cocaine, especially when purchased with rich dead men’s money.

On the other hand, there’s Sean and David, who love fishing and are kind to animals — and …

The Big Bamboo

The Big Bamboo (0)

His marriage plans fizzled, so Floridaphile serial killer Serge A. Storms is on a new mission: to convince the West Coast movie industry bigwigs to do their business in his beloved Sunshine State. So it’s off to Tinseltown with his substance-sustained sidekick, Coleman—to “schmooze” with craven cokehead producers a…

Atomic Lobster

Atomic Lobster (0)

Serge A. Storms is back with a bullet, torn between homicide and souvenirs, cranking up the fevered action as the pot boils over on a street called Lobster Lane. It’s reunion time in the Sunshine State, and we’re not just talking the family jamboree of the blood-soaked McGraw criminal clan, whose nastiest, meanest m…

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