This is slapstick satire where one chaotic situation bounces on to another. Full of wacky characters and improbable scenarios and set in the dangerous world of Florida’s ‘gator-strewn Everglades, it’s just the most ludicrous fun you’ll have for a long time.
Comparison: Christopher Brookmyre, Colin Bateman, Chris Haslam.
July 2009 Guest Editor Louise Wener on CARL HIAASEN
I started reading Carl Hiaasen when I was traveling in Florida researching my third book, The Half Life of Stars. The book is set in and around Miami, as is most of Hiaasen’s fiction. Hiaasen is the master of satirical, comic crime writing – I can’t tolerate the bleak slasher kind – and his characters are gloriously flamboyant.
The plots are fast and furious and he brilliantly lampoons everything from rock music to politics to our obsession with eco causes and plastic surgery.
Honey Santana – self-proclaimed queen of lost causes – has a plan. She’s taking part-time telephonist Boyd Shreave on a kayaking trip to Dismal Key for a lesson in civility. But lurking in the island's undergrowth is failed alligator wrestler Sammy Tigertail with death on his mind; and Honey's vengeful co-worker, Louis Piejack, now with the fingers of one hand surgically mis-attached to the wrong knuckles.
| Primary Genre | Crime and Mystery |
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Honey Santana – self-proclaimed queen of lost causes – has a plan. She’s taking part-time telephonist Boyd Shreave on a kayaking trip to Dismal Key for a lesson in civility.
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Nature Girl was written by Carl Hiaasen and published by Transworld Publishers Ltd
Nature Girl has 399 pages
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