Tourist Season
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4.0 • 459 Ratings
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Publisher Description
Take a trip to exotic South Florida with this dark, funny book that established Carl Hiaasen as one of the top mystery writers in the game.
The first sign of trouble is a Shriner's fez washed up on a Miami beach. The next is a suitcase containing the almost-legless body of the local chamber of commerce president found floating in a canal...
The locals are desperate to keep the murders under wraps and the tourist money flowing. But it will take a reporter-turned–private eye to make sense of a caper that mixes football players, politicians, and one very hungry crocodile in this classic mystery that GQ called “one of the top ten destination reads of all time.”
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
When the president of the Miami Chamber of Commerce is found dead inside a suitcase with his legs sawn off and a rubber alligator stuffed down his throat, news and police locals prefer to believe it's simply another typical South Florida crime. But when letters from a terrorist group, Las Noches de Diciembre, link the man's death to the disappearances of a visiting Shriner and a Canadian tourist, former newsman (now private eye) Brian Keyes intuits that someone is out to kill Florida's tourist trade. His investigation leads him to an old journalism crony obsessed with fury against the state's irresponsible development policies. Miami Herald columnist Hiaasen writes with a seriousness of intent and knack for characterization which, unfortunately, outstrip his comic talents. This is an auspicious solo debut for the serious Hiaasen (he has written three thrillers with William Montalbano), but a lukewarm one for him as a potential comic-absurdist. (March 24p
Customer Reviews
Tourist Season
Not up to Hiaasen’s best, but still very good. I’m never going to Florida for any reason.
Tourist Season
I ran across this book- I knew the author wrote Hoot.., a young adult book that got Newberry recognition.. so I thought this might be a good read. Quirky characters: Skip, a disillusioned reporter, a former football pro who wants to be a rebel, guy who likes to blow things up, and a Native American anarchist joint together to try to drive people out of Florida… and one erstwhile price detective, a former girlfriend and a Beauty Queen round out the cast. A story of how the rebels are defeated, sometimes by dumb luck and sometimes by smart deduction, wrapped in humor- it’s a darn fun read!
Floridians at their worst
A book for the time we now live in. I know it’s fiction but I think it could really happen. Makes you think. Makes you reconsider the choices you make in life and the consequences they have. Another book read and loved by Carl Hiaason.