Carl Hiaasen
Carl Hiaasen was born and raised in Florida. He is the author of thirteen previous novels, including Skinny Dip, Sick Puppy, Stormy Weather, Basket Case, and, for young readers, Flush and Hoot. He also writes a regular column for The Miami Herald.
Carl Hiaasen's Books
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Richard Gazala
Like the waters of Key Biscayne, in and near where much of the plot of this book occurs, this story is choppy. That’s to be expected, given the novel consists of 13 chapters, no two written by the same author. Dave Barry kicks off the story, Carl Hiaasen finishes it, and the writers in between are all seasoned Floridian authors of varying renown. Some of the chapters are funnier than others, some better written, and a couple don’t work at all. The approach makes for disjointed storytelling at best, and reads more like a series of tenuously interconnected vignettes than an actual story. It’s an interesting writing experiment, but one that’s been done before and better. If you’re a fan of any of these authors or the peculiar inanities of south Florida life, you’ll enjoy this book.
Legends of the Fall
I try to read everything that Harrison writes, but I especially enjoy his novellas, a grand form of fiction that he’s almost singlehandedly keeping alive in the United States.
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Skin Tight (2)
“New York Times” bestselling author Carl Hiaasen serves up a humorous helping of “taut, fast-paced action…crisp and hot”
After dispatching a pistol-packing intruder from his home with the help of a stuffed Marlin head, Mick Stranahan can’t deny that someone is out to get him. His now-deceased intruder carries no …
Star Island (2)
Meet twenty-two-year-old Cherry Pye (nee Cheryl Bunterman), a pop star since she was fourteen—and about to attempt a comeback from her latest drug-and-alcohol disaster.
Now meet Cherry again: in the person of her “undercover stunt double,” Ann DeLusia. Ann portrays Cherry whenever the singer is too “indisposed”—me…
Naked Came the Manatee (1)
A story of suspense written serially by thirteen of Florida’s most talented writers—including Dave Barry, Carl Hiaasen, and Elmore Leonard—features a riot in Coconut Grove, an appearance by Fidel Castro, and other strange happenings.
Skinny Dip (0)
Chaz Perrone might be the only marine scientist in the world who doesn’t know which way the Gulf Stream runs. He might also be the only one who went into biology just to make a killing, and now he’s found a waydoctoring water samples so that a ruthless agribusiness tycoon can continue illegally dumping fertilizer into t…
Powder Burn (0)
Architect Chris Meadows has the bad luck to see an old girlfriend get hit by a car full of drugland hitmen. He has the worse luck to see the face of her murderers. Because in a town as violent as Miami, a witness doesn’t stand a chance—especially when the cops who ought to be protecting him are more interested in dangl…
Trap Line (0)
With its dozens of outlying islands and the native Conch’s historically low regard for the law, Key West is a smuggler’s paradise. All that’s needed are the captains to run the contraband. Breeze Albury is one of the best fishing captains on the Rock, and he’s in no mood to become the Machine’s delivery boy. So the Mach…
Double Whammy (0)
R. J. Decker, trailer park resident and neophyte private eye, teams up with a half-blind, half-mad hermit — and faces down television evangelists, dangerous women, pistol-packing rednecks, and a pit bull — to solve a fishy murder. Warner has over 425,000 paperback copies in print.
"A murder sizzler that is everythin…
Tourist Season (0)
The only trace of the first victim was his Shriner’s fez washed up on the Miami beach. The second victim, the head of the city’s chamber of commerce, was found dead with a toy rubber alligator lodged in his throat. And that was just the beginning… Now Brian Keyes, reporter turned private eye, must move from muckraking…
Nature Girl (0)
Honey Santana—impassioned, willful, possibly bipolar, self-proclaimed “queen of lost causes”—has a scheme to help rid the world of irresponsibility, indifference, and dinnertime sales calls. She’s taking rude, gullible Relentless, Inc., telemarketer Boyd Shreave and his less-than-enthusiastic mistress, Eugenie—the fi…
Basket Case (0)
Once a hotshot investigative reporter, Jack Tagger now bangs out obituaries for a South Florida daily, “plotting to resurrect my career by yoking my byline to some famous stiff.” Jimmy Stoma, the infamous front man of Jimmy and the Slut Puppies, dead in a fishy-smelling scuba “accident” may be just the stiff Jack needs-…
