Carl Hiaasen
2) Razor girl
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Andrew Yancy novels volume 2
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"When Lane Coolman's car is bashed from behind on the road to the Florida Keys, what appears to be an innocent accident is anything but. Behind the wheel of the offending car is Merry Mansfield--the eponymous Razor Girl--so named for her unique, eye-popping addition to what might be an otherwise unexciting scam. But this is only the very beginning of a situation that's going to spiral crazily out of control while gathering in some of the wildest characters...
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Skink volume 8
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"A prominent high-society matron--who happens to be a fierce supporter of the President and founding member of the POTUSSIES--has gone missing at a swank gala. When the wealthy dowager Kiki Pew Fitzsimmons is later found dead in a concrete grave, panic and chaos erupt. The President immediately declares that Kiki Pew was the victim of rampaging immigrant hordes. This, as it turns out, is far from the truth. Meanwhile, a bizarre discovery in the middle...
4) Bad monkey
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Andrew Yancy novels volume 1
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Andrew Yancy, late of the Miami Police, soon-to-be-late of the Key West Police, has a human arm in his freezer. There is a logical explanation for that, but not for how and why it parted from its owner. Yancy thinks the boating-accident/shark-luncheon explanation is full of holes, and if he can prove murder, his commander might relieve him of Health Inspector duties, aka Roach Patrol. But first Yancy will negotiate an ever-surprising course of events,...
5) Wrecker
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Massachusetts Children’s Book Award Nominees 2025-2026
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Valdez Jones VIII calls himself Wrecker because his great-great-great-great-great-grandfather salvaged shipwrecks for a living. So is it destiny, irony, or just bad luck when Wrecker comes across a speedboat which has run hard aground on a sand flat? The men in the boat don't want Wrecker to call for help. In fact, they'll pay him to forget he ever saw them. Wrecker would be happy to forget, but he keeps seeing these men all over Key West—at the...
6) Hoot
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Roy, who is new to his small Florida community, becomes involved in another boy's attempt to save a colony of burrowing owls from a proposed construction site.
7) Chomp
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When the difficult star of the reality television show "Expedition Survival" disappears while filming an episode in the Florida Everglades using animals from the wildlife refuge run by Wahoo Crane's family, Wahoo and classmate Tuna Gordon set out to find him while avoiding Tuna's gun-happy father.
8) Flush
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With their father jailed for sinking a river boat, Noah Underwood and his younger sister, Abbey, must gather evidence that the owner of this floating casino is emptying his bilge tanks into the protected waters around their Florida Keys home.
9) Star Island
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Skink novels (Carl Hiaasen) volume 6
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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'--meaning wasted--to go out in public. And it is Ann-mistaken-for Cherry who is kidnapped from a South Beach hotel by obsessed paparazzo...
10) Scat
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Nick and his friend Marta decide to investigate when a mysterious fire starts near a Florida wildlife preserve and an unpopular teacher goes missing.
12) Squirm
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"This summer, Billy will fly across the country, hike a mountain, float a river, dodge a grizzly bear, shoot down a spy drone, save a neighbor's cat, save an endangered panther, and then try to save his own father. Carl Hiaasen tells a wickedly funny, slightly twisted tale about families, figuring out what's really important, and knowing when (and when not) to let things go."--Amazon.com.
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Skink novels (Carl Hiaasen) volume 5
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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 way--- doctoring water samples so that ruthless agribusiness tycoon can continue illegaly dumping fertilizer nto the endangred Everglades.
14) Basket case
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A rollicking and hilarious novel from the bestselling author of Squeeze Me and “Florida’s most entertainingly indignant social critic” (New York Times Book Review).
Jack Tagger’s years in exile at the obituaries desk of a South Florida daily haven’t dulled his investigative reporter’s nose for a good story. When Jimmy Stoma, the infamous front man of Jimmy
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Squeeze Me—and “Florida’s most entertainingly indignant social critic” (New York Times Book Review)—a novel starring three lottery winners, two heavily armed psychopaths, and a big-city investigative journalist set deep in Florida Bay.
Grange, Florida, is, famous for its miracles—the weeping fiberglass Madonna, the Road-Stain Jesus,...
Grange, Florida, is, famous for its miracles—the weeping fiberglass Madonna, the Road-Stain Jesus,...
16) Sick puppy
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Skink novels (Carl Hiaasen) volume 4
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When Palmer Stoat notices the black pickup truck following him on the highway, he fears his Range Rover is about to be car-jacked. But Twilly Spree, the man tailing Stoat, has vengeance on his mind. After watching Stoat dump a trail of fast-food litter out the window, Twilly decided to teach him a lesson. Thus, Stoat's prized Range Rover becomes home to a horde of dung beetles. But Twilly discovers that Stoat is one of Florida's most powerful political...
17) Skin tight
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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 I.D., and as a former Florida state investigator, Stranahan knows there are plenty of potential culprits. His long list of enemies includes an off point hit man, a personal injury lawyer of billboard fame, a notoriously irritating TV journalist, and a fumbling...
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From “Florida’s most entertainingly indignant social critic” (New York Times Book Review)—an inventive tale yet of savage appetites and sweet justice.
Only in America could an innocent, if drunken, guest of honor at a strip joint bachelor party become a mortal threat against Big Money and Big Government. Only in south Florida, land of roadside honky-tonks and sinister pleasure...
Only in America could an innocent, if drunken, guest of honor at a strip joint bachelor party become a mortal threat against Big Money and Big Government. Only in south Florida, land of roadside honky-tonks and sinister pleasure...
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Skink novels (Carl Hiaasen) volume 3
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A hilarious and scathing novel from the author of Squeeze Me about a crazed and determined man who has devoted his strange existence to saving southern Florida from con artists and carpetbaggers after a hurricane hits.
"Hysterically funny…. Hiaasen at his satirical best." —USA Today
When a ferocious hurricane rips through southern Florida, insurance fraudsters, amateur occultists,...
"Hysterically funny…. Hiaasen at his satirical best." —USA Today
When a ferocious hurricane rips through southern Florida, insurance fraudsters, amateur occultists,...
20) Double whammy
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Skink novels (Carl Hiaasen) volume 1
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“Follow the adventures of a news-photographer-turned-private-eye as he seeks truth, justice, and an affair with his ex-wife” (The New York Times) in this hilarious caper from bestselling author Carl Hiaasen.
R.J. Decker, star tenant of the local trailer park and neophyte private eye is fishing for a killer. Thanks to a sportsman’s scam that’s anything but sportsmanlike, there’s a body floating in Coon...
R.J. Decker, star tenant of the local trailer park and neophyte private eye is fishing for a killer. Thanks to a sportsman’s scam that’s anything but sportsmanlike, there’s a body floating in Coon...




