Best Carl Hiaasen Novels - April 2024

Hoot

This Newbery Honor-winning, hilarious Floridian adventure involves new kids, bullies, alligators, eco-warriors, pancakes, pint-sized owls, and more. A New York Times bestseller!Everybody loves Mother Paula’s pancakes. Everybody, that is, except the colony of cute but endangered owls that live on the building site of the new restaurant. Can the awkward new kid and his feral friend prank the pancake people out of town? Or is the owls’ fate cemented in pancake batter?“A wonderful tour de-force.” —The Boston Globe   “A rollicking, righteous story.” —The Miami Herald   “Yes, it ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0440419395
• ASIN: 0440419395
• ISBN: 0440419395
• Brand: Random House
• Manufacturer: Yearling

Razor Girl: A novel

A lovable con woman and a disgraced detective team up to find a redneck reality TV star in this raucous and razor-sharp new novel from Carl Hiaasen, the bestselling author of Bad Monkey. Merry Mansfield, the eponymous Razor Girl, specializes in kidnapping for the mob. Her preferred method is rear-ending her targets and asking them for a ride. Her latest mark is Martin Trebeaux, owner of a private beach renourishment company who has delivered substandard sand to a mob hotel. But there's just one problem: Razor Girl hits the wrong guy. Instead, she ends up with Lane Coolman, talent manager for... [Read More]

• ASIN: B019B6TVUI
• ASIN: B019B6TVUI
• ISBN: 0385349750
• Manufacturer: Vintage

Flush

Take a romp in the swamp with this New York Times bestselling mystery adventure set in the Florida Keys from Newbery Honoree Carl Hiaasen! Noah's dad is sure that the owner of the Coral Queen casino boat is flushing raw sewage into the harbor—which has made taking a dip at the local beach like swimming in a toilet. He can't prove it though, and so he decides that sinking the boat will make an effective statement. Right. The boat is pumped out and back in business within days and Noah's dad is in the local lock-up. Now Noah is determined to succeed where his dad failed. He will prove that the... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0375861254
• ASIN: 0375861254
• ISBN: 0375861254
• Brand: Yearling Books
• Manufacturer: Yearling

Skinny Dip (Skink Series)

Chaz Perrone may care more about Hummers than hammerheads, but he’s done pretty well for himself as a marine biologist, doctoring water samples so that an agribusiness tycoon can continue dumping fertilizer into the Everglades. When Chaz suspects that his wife, Joey Perrone, has figured out his scam, he resolves to push her overboard a cruise liner into the seething Atlantic. But if Chaz is a subpar scientist, he’s an even worse killer. Joey, clinging blindly to a bale of Jamaican pot, is plucked from the ocean by a rugged stranger. Instead of rushing to the authorities, she seizes the opp... [Read More]

• ASIN: 110197303X
• ASIN: 110197303X
• ISBN: 110197303X
• Brand: Vintage Crime Black Lizard
• Manufacturer: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

Tourist Season

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 t... [Read More]

• ASIN: B003ZK58UE
• ASIN: B003ZK58UE
• Manufacturer: G.P. Putnam's Sons

Squirm

Snakes, grizzlies, a missing dad, a menacing drone... Carl Hiaasen delivers a wickledly funny, slightly subversive tale in his latest New York Times bestseller. Some facts about Billy Dickens:  *  He once saw a biker swerve across the road in order to run over a snake.  *  Later, that motorcycle somehow ended up at the bottom of a canal.  *  Billy isn't the type to let things go.Some facts about Billy's family:  *  They've lived in six different Florida towns because Billy's mom insists on getting a house near a bald eagle nest.  *  Billy's dad left when he was four and i... [Read More]

• ASIN: B0796DHBXD
• ASIN: B0796DHBXD
• Manufacturer: Knopf Books for Young Readers

Basket Case

• ASIN: B000FC1GT2
• ASIN: B000FC1GT2
• Manufacturer: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

Hoot

• ASIN: B0753RLM41
• ASIN: B0753RLM41

{Carl Hiaasen} - hardcover Razor Girl_ A Novel

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• ASIN: B07W4RHC3P
• ASIN: B07W4RHC3P
• Brand: TOPDESK
• Manufacturer: TOPDESK

Stormy Weather

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"Hysterically funny...Hiaasen at his satirical best." - USA TodayTwo honeymooners wake up early, make love twice, and brace themselves for a spectacle they won't be watching from the sidelines. A seductive con artiste stumbles into a scam that promises more cool cash than the lottery. A shotgun-toting mobile home salesman is about to close a deal with disaster. A law school dropout will be chasing one Gaboon viper, a troop of storm-shocked monkeys, and a newfound love life, while tourists by the thousands bail from the Florida Keys. We're now entering the hurricane zon... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0446677167
• ASIN: 0446677167
• ISBN: 0446677167
• Manufacturer: Grand Central Publishing

Skin Tight (Mick Stranahan Book 1)

Bestselling author Carl Hiaasen serves up a humorous helping of "taut, fast-paced action...crisp and hot” (The New York Times).  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 plastic surge... [Read More]

• ASIN: B0047O2FC6
• ASIN: B0047O2FC6
• Manufacturer: Berkley

Chomp

• ASIN: B005ACD1GS
• ASIN: B005ACD1GS
• Manufacturer: Knopf Books for Young Readers

Bad Monkey

Andrew Yancy-late of the Miami Police and soon-to-be-late of the Monroe County sheriff's office-has a human arm in his freezer. There's a logical (Hiaasenian) explanation for that, but not for how and why it parted from its shadowy owner. Yancy thinks the boating-accident/shark-luncheon explanation is full of holes, and if he can prove murder, the sheriff might rescue him from his grisly Health Inspector gig (it's not called the roach patrol for nothing). But first-this being Hiaasen country-Yancy must negotiate an obstacle course of wildly unpredictable events with a crew of even more wildly ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0446556157
• ASIN: 0446556157
• ISBN: 0446556157
• Manufacturer: Grand Central Publishing

Trap Line

• ASIN: B00BBPW90C
• ASIN: B00BBPW90C
• Manufacturer: Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller

Powder Burn

• ASIN: B00BBPW6BO
• ASIN: B00BBPW6BO
• Manufacturer: Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller

Tourist Season : A Suspense Thriller

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

• UPC: 55062882
• Rating: 3.563

Razor Girl : A novel

"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 (this is Hiaasen!). Behind the wheel of the offending car

• UPC: 55497124
• Rating: 3.8

Skinny Dip

Chaz Perrone may care more about Hummers than hammerheads, but he's done pretty well for himself as a marine biologist, doctoring water samples so that an agribusiness tycoon can continue dumping fertilizer into the Everglades.

• UPC: 51798469
• Rating: 3.747

Razor Girl

"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 (this is Hiaasen!). Behind the wheel of the offending car

• UPC: 51194459
• Rating: 3.8

Nature Girl

In his latest "New York Times" bestseller, Hiaasen introduces impassioned, possibly bipolar, self-proclaimed "queen of lost causes" Honey Santana, who schemes to help rid the world of irresponsibility, indifference, and dinnertime sales

• UPC: 5798473
• Rating: 3.357

Stormy Weather

Hiaasen's hilarious novel of greed and corruption is now available in a tall Premium Edition. It's the height of the tourist season in southern Florida when a ferocious hurricane hits--luring con artists, carpetbaggers, and would-be

• UPC: 954371921
• Rating: 3.95

Star Island

Twenty-two-year-old pop star Cherry Pye is attempting a comeback from her latest drug and alcohol disaster. Ann DeLusia is Cherry's "undercover stunt double." But, one night, Ann-as-Cherry is kidnapped by an obsessed paparazzo. Now the

• UPC: 15182478
• Rating: 3.135

Metzger's Dog : A Novel

Veteran CIA operative Ben Porterfield is ordered to recover some top-secret papers revealing covert CIA operations in Latin America from the terrorist organization that seized them inadvertently while stealing a million dollars worth of cocaine.

• UPC: 2068585
• Rating: 4.0

Razor Girl

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• UPC: 117049938

Sick Puppy

Independently wealthy eco-terrorist Twilly Spree teaches a flagrant litterbug a lesson--and leaves the offender's precious Range Rover swarming with hungry dung beetles. When he discovers the litterer is one of the most powerful political fixers

• UPC: 3429584
• Rating: 3.767