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»Bad Monkey is the closest Hiaasen comes to a police procedural, but true to form, it also is a look at the ludicrous ways of Florida, such as the true bait-and-switch in which a dead sailfish is surreptitiously placed on a tourist’s line.«

Oline H. Cogdill

Carl Hiaasen’s latest spoof involves an unattached arm, a good cop and a nasty monkey. Oline H. Cogdill reviews the new novel Bad Monkey at the Miami Herald.

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  • Bad Monkey by Carl Hiaasen
  • The Kill Room by Jeffery Deaver
  • The Broken Places by Ace Atkins
  • The Bat by Jo Nesbo
  • The Redeemer by Jo Nesbo

New crime fiction novels reviewed by Marylin Stasio. What she has to say about the books by Carl Hiaasen, Jeffery Deaver, Ace Atkins and Jo Nesbo you can read at The New York Times.

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»[Carl] Hiaasen himself labels South Florida »Newark with palm trees«, and churns out tales of sleaze and ruin to match. Yet despite his impressive output, Hiaasen’s dark annals of the Sunshine State cannot best the facts on the ground. Twitter—that first exposer of America’s most embarrassing sinkholes—has served up an aggregated feed of the Florida Man. The account, which gathers the police blotter’s sickest and strangest, and feels no need to give commentary, gravely underscores Gopnik’s hypothesis of the South Florida wacko.«

Emily Greenhouse

Emily Greenhouse about Adam Gopnik‘s definition of a new genre of crime thriller – fiction of Florida glare. This includes the books by Carl Hiaasen but also the outlandish storys coming from the Florida Man at Twitter. More about the Sunshine State’s Weirdness at The New Yorker.

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»The detective himself is enough of a charismatic goof to maintain the interest – it’s just a shame that, because of the stops and starts, Bad Monkey is unable to elicit the all-consuming exhilaration that made Hiaasen’s work of 20 years ago so special.«

Robert Epstein

Even a gem needs a bit of a polish: Robert Epstein reviews Bad Monkey, the latest novel by Carl Hiaasen. His view you will find at The Independent.

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