Carl Hiaasen, Author Putnam Publishing Group $16.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-399-13297-1
A Miami Herald reporter who struck a blow against corrupt entrepreneurs in Tourist Season, Hiaasen follows through with this acid satire, a real double whammy. Private detective R. J. Decker is hired to prove that TV host Dickie Lockhart cheats to...
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Carl Hiaasen, Knopf, $26.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-307-27258-4
The career of singer Cheryl Bunterman (aka Cherry Pye), who debuted with Jailbait Records at age 15, is foundering due to her lack of talent and indiscriminate appetite for drugs, booze, and sex in this outrageous, offbeat novel from Hiaasen (Nature
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Carl Hiaasen, Author Warner Books $7.99 (400p) ISBN 978-0-446-60342-3
Hiaasen's latest seriocomic Florida thriller spent seven weeks on PW's bestseller list. (Aug.)
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Carl Hiaasen, Author Fawcett Books $6.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-449-21941-6
``Hiaasen's latest thriller is his funniest and sharpest novel to date. Set in a south Florida swarming with ripoff artists, crooked cops, nude sunbathers and corrupt politicians, it features a Mafia-connected plastic surgeon with butterfingers, a...
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Carl Hiaasen, Author Fawcett Books $7.5 (416p) ISBN 978-0-449-22118-1
Hiassen sends his reluctant journalist hero after a morally corrupt real estate developer in this scattershot but inventive entertainment. ( Nov. )
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Carl Hiaasen, Author Putnam Publishing Group $15.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-399-13145-5
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...
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Carl Hiaasen, Author Putnam Publishing Group $18.95 (319p) ISBN 978-0-399-13489-0
Hiaasen's latest thriller is his funniest and sharpest novel to date. Set in a south Florida swarming with ripoff artists, crooked cops, nude sunbathers and corrupt politicians, it features a Mafia-connected plastic surgeon with butterfingers, a...
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Carl Hiaasen. Knopf, $16.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-375-86842-9
Hiaasen extends his brand of Florida eco-adventures with this loopy foray into reality TV. Derek Badger, star of Expedition Survival!, arrives to film an Everglades episode, enlisting the services of animal wrangler Mickey Cray, a sort of Dr....
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Carl Hiaasen. Knopf, $26.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-307-27259-1
Hiaasen (Star Island) combines familiar themes with an inspired cast in this exercise in Florida zaniness. Andrew Yancy, who became an ex-cop after publicly assaulting his girlfriend’s husband with a vacuum cleaner attachment, is now on “roach...
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Carl Hiaasen. Knopf, $18.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-375-87051-4
Rather than be shipped off to boarding school, Richard Sloan’s cousin Malley runs away with a questionable acquaintance she met online. Richard shares his worry over her fate with a strange, one-eyed man he stumbles across on a Florida beach....
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Carl Hiaasen. Knopf, $27.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-385-34974-1
At the start of Hiaasen’s breezy, enjoyable sequel to 2013’s Bad Monkey, Lane Coolman, a Hollywood talent agent, is driving from Miami to Key West to keep an eye on Buck Nance, star of Bayou Brethen, a reality TV show, when his rental car is rear-end
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Carl Hiaasen. Knopf, $18.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-385-75297-8
The focus of the latest eco-adventure by Hiaasen (Chomp) is not an endangered animal but an elusive one: Billy Dickens’s absent father. When Billy was three or four, his dad disappeared, though support checks still arrive monthly. Billy’s mother, a...
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Carl Hiaasen, Author . Knopf $25.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-375-41107-6
Hiassen gets back to his roots with this (almost) straight-ahead mystery, but doesn't skimp on the funny stuff as he follows the adventures of Jack Tagger, down-on-his-luck journalist relegated to the obit beat at a smalltown Florida daily....
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Carl Hiaasen, Author . Knopf $15.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-375-82181-3
With a Florida setting and proenvironment, antidevelopment message, Hiaasen (Sick Puppy) returns to familiar turf for his first novel for young readers. Characteristically quirky characters and comic twists will surely gain the author new fans,...
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Carl Hiaasen, Author , read by Chad Lowe. Listening Library $26 (, unabridged, four cassettes, 6.5 hours, $26 ISBN ) ISBN 978-0-8072-0922-6
Lowe's audiobook repertoire (most recently Big Mouth & Ugly Girl) grows with this unhurried, optimistic reading of bestselling author Hiaasen's debut work for young readers. Since his parents move around a lot, Roy Eberhardt is used to...
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Carl Hiaasen, Author . Knopf $24.95 (355p) ISBN 978-0-375-41108-3
Hiaasen's signature mix of hilariously over-the-top villains, lovable innocents and righteous indignation at what mankind has done to his beloved Florida wilderness is all present in riotous abundance in his latest. It begins with attractive...
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Carl Hiaasen, Author . Knopf $8.95 (292p) ISBN 978-0-375-82916-1
"With a Florida setting and pro-environment, anti-development message, Hiaasen returns to familiar turf for his first novel for young readers," wrote PW
. "Several suspenseful scenes, along with dollops of humor, help make this quite a...
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Carl Hiaasen, Author . Knopf $16.95 (263p) ISBN 978-0-375-82182-0
Hiaasen's (Hoot
) action-packed mystery set in the Florida Keys offers a colorful cast of dastardly villains and eccentric heroes, along with his signature environmental themes. Noah would be the first to admit that his father, Paine Underwood, &
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Carl Hiaasen, Author . Knopf $25.95 (306p) ISBN 978-0-307-26299-8
Old fans and newcomers alike should delight in Hiaasen's 11th novel (after 2004's Skinny Dip
), another hilarious Florida romp. The engaging and diverse screwball cast includes Boyd Shreave, a semicompetent telemarketer; Shreave's...
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Carl Hiaasen, Author . Knopf $22 (207p) ISBN 978-0-307-26653-8
Hiaasen (Skinny Dip
), an admittedly woeful golfer, recounts his clumsy resumption of the game after a 32-year layoff. Why did he take up golf so long after quitting at the age of 20? “I'm one sick bastard,” he writes. Hiaasen...
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Carl Hiaasen, Author Alfred A Knopf Inc $24 (320p) ISBN 978-0-679-45444-1
The Florida jokester has come up with his funniest caper yet in this novel about a lottery winner and the evil attentions she attracts from some of the grungiest lowlifes ever to see print. JoLayne Lucks is a cheery vet's assistant in tiny Grange,...
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Carl Hiaasen, Author Knopf/Everyman's Library $25 (352p) ISBN 978-0-679-45445-8
Florida muckraker Hiaasen once again produces a devilishly funny caper revolving around the environmental exploitation of his home state by greedy developers. When budding young ecoterrorist Twilly Spree begins a campaign of sabotage against a...
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Carl Hiaasen, Author Alfred A Knopf Inc $24 (335p) ISBN 978-0-679-41982-2
Hiaasen's latest madcap romp across southern Florida presents an apocalyptic panorama of the region in the wake of a storm much like Hurricane Andrew. Transforming a suburban sprawl into a lawless frontier, the hurricane puts on a collision course a
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Carl Hiaasen, Author Alfred A Knopf Inc $21 (353p) ISBN 978-0-679-41981-5
Inventive blackmail schemes, grisly murders, power politics, greed, revenge and sex all figure in Hiaasen's ( Native Tongue ) latest comic crime novel. At the Eager Beaver, a topless bar in Fort Lauderdale, former FBI clerk Erin Grant dances nightly
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Carl Hiaasen, Author . Knopf $16.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-375-83486-8
Hiaasen reprises Hoot
with a panther in the owl role, an oil company as the villain and a rich renegade named Twilly Spree as the outlaw environmentalist determined to save Florida from developers. The kid hero is Nick Waters, saintly son of a...
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Carl Hiaasen. Vintage, $15.95 trade paper (416p) ISBN 978-0-345-80702-1
Throughout his prolific career writing mysteries and young adult novels, Hiaasen (Bad Monkey) has continued to write straight journalism for the Miami Herald, in a weekly op-ed column exploring the weird scenes of Florida in general and Miami in...
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Carl Hiaasen, read by John Rubinstein. Random House Audio, , unabridged, 10 CDs, 12.5 hrs., $40 ISBN 978-0-385-39294-5
Hiaasen’s woozily funny mix of Florida mayhem, murder, and mirth brings back Andrew Yancy, goofball hero of 2013’s Bad Monkey, who’s still trying to solve a crime high profile enough to catapult him from inspecting restaurants in Key West to his old
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Carl Hiaasen, Author, Carl Hiaasen, Read by , read by the author. Random House Audio $29.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7393-5831-3
Everybody knows how funny Hiaasen can be in print, but unfortunately something not so funny happens when he reads his own book about starting up again as a golfer after dropping the sport 32 years ago. Sentences that get a chuckle on the page sound...
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Carl Hiaasen, Author, Michael Welch, Read by , read by Michael Welch. Listening Library $30 (0p) ISBN 978-0-307-28070-1
How does Hiaasen follow up his page-turning novel about saving owls in Florida (Hoot
)? With a second fast-paced story featuring an environmental theme—this time about ocean pollutants harming turtles' habitats (and the surroundings in...
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Carl Hiaasen, Author, Lee Adams, Read by , read by Lee Adams. Random House Audio $39.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7393-4266-4
Like the prolific animal and insect life of the Everglades, Hiaasen's latest contains a cacophony of voices that clash with one another yet come together in the end to form an unique world. Hiaasen's novels compare favorably to the films of...
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Carl Hiaasen, read by Kirby Heyborne. Listening Library, , unabridged, 7 CDs, 8 hrs., $40 ISBN 978-0-8041-6688-1
Heyborne’s easy-on-the-ears narration offers readily distinguishable voices for the characters of Richard, Skink, and Malley in Hiaasen’s first book for teens. Heyborne’s smooth vocal transitions from one speaker to the next, combined with Hiaasen’s
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Carl Hiaasen, Author, Carl Hiassen, Author, Diane Stevenson, Editor . Putnam $25.95 (500p) ISBN 978-0-399-14791-3
The Florida Chamber of Commerce undoubtedly has a dart-pocked photograph of syndicated Miami Herald
columnist Hiaasen tacked to the wall. For his second anthology of 200 columns, spanning 15 years, he takes readers on a head-shaking romp through a...
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Carl Hiaasen, read by James Van Der Beek. Listening Library, unabridged, five CDs, 6.25 hrs., $40 ISBN 978-0-307-91640-2
An animal wrangler named Mickey Cray and his son, Wahoo, whose Florida home and yard house alligators, snakes, and other wildlife, reluctantly take on the job of supplying animals for a reality television show called Expedition Survival!—the host of
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Carl Hiaasen, Author, Sonny Mehta, Editor Alfred A. Knopf $21 (325p) ISBN 978-0-394-58796-7
Writing like an Edward Abbey of South Florida, Hiaasen ( Skin Tight ) sets his reluctant journalist hero after a morally corrupt real estate developer planning to build an 18-hole golf course on North Key Largo. Burned out as an investigative...
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Carl Hiaasen. Knopf, $28.95 (352p) ISBN 978-1-524-73345-2
At the start of this heavy-handed satire from bestseller Hiaasen (Razor Girl), wealthy 72-year-old Kiki Pew Fitzsimmons, a member of the POTUS Pussies, “a group of Palm Beach women who proclaimed brassy loyalty to the new, crude-spoken commander-in-c
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Carl Hiaasen. Knopf, $18.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-593-37628-7
Fifteen-year-old Valdez Jones VIII—who calls himself Wrecker “because his great-great-great-great-great-grandfather salvaged shipwrecks for a living”—is fishing off the coast of Key West when a boat speeding outside the navigation markers becomes...
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