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Sparky Harper, the president of the Miami Chamber of Commerce is the first victim to surface—he’s found stuffed in a suitcase with his legs cut off, dressed in a gaudy Hawaiian shirt, a rubber alligator lodged in his throat. But he’s not the last. After Sparky, it’s the tourists. A visiting Shriner. A woman from Montreal. A retiree from Brooklyn who’s settled in Florida. One by one, they disappear—all victims of a group of radicals who call themselves Las Noches de Diciembre, the Nights of December. Their mission: to scare off the tourists and the retirees and bring Florida back to what it used to be before the hotels and the high rises—beautiful and natural.
Newspaper reporter turned private detective Brian Keyes finds himself in the middle of the case, trying to hunt down Las Noches and stop the killing…
With each book I read, I’m falling more in love with Carl Hiaasen. Tourist Season, Hiaasen’s solo debut, is another one of those books that was difficult to put down once I picked it up. It’s a hard book to classify, though. It isn’t really a mystery, since you know who’s responsible for the murders almost right away—though you never really know what they’re going to do next. And it’s funny—not in an obviously hilarious way-but in Hiaasen’s subtle, dark way, written with tongue firmly planted in cheek. So let’s call it an action comedy.
Some of the characters alone make this book worth reading—especially Jesús Bernal, the Cuban bomb specialist who just can’t seem to get things right. Or the crazed leader who calls himself El Fuego—who will do anything for a little bit of press coverage.
Tourist Season is a great book to pack for your next vacation—but if you happen to be headed to Florida, you might want to pick something else.
Kristin Dreyer Kramer has been writing in some form or another (usually when she was supposed to be doing something else) since the ripe old age of ten—when she, her cousin, and their two Cabbage Patch Dolls formed the Poo Authors’ Club. After a short career in advertising, Kristin got sick of always saying nice things about stuff that didn’t deserve it—so now she spends her days criticizing things, and she’s much happier for it.
Since creating NightsAndWeekends.com in February of 2002, Kristin has spent her life surrounded by piles and piles of books and movies—so many that her office has become a kind of entertainment obstacle course.
As if her writing and editing responsibilities for N&W.com weren’t enough to keep her out of trouble, Kristin also hosts a number of weekly radio shows: Reel Discovery, Shelf Discovery, and On the Marquee. She’s also a proud member of the Broadcast Film Critics Association (CriticsChoice.com), the Central Ohio Film Critics Association (COFCA.org), the Online Film Critics Society (OFCS.org), and the Women Film Critics Circle (WFCC.Wordpress.com).
Kristin lives in Columbus, Ohio, with her husband, Paul, and their daughter, Anna. She welcomes questions, comments, and fan mail at kdk@nightsandweekends.com.
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Kristin Dreyer Kramer has been writing in some form or another (usually when she was supposed to be doing something else) since the ripe old age of ten—when she, her cousin, and their two Cabbage Patch Dolls formed the Poo Authors’ Club. After a short career in advertising, Kristin got sick of always saying nice things about stuff that didn’t deserve it—so now she spends her days criticizing things, and she’s much happier for it.
Since creating NightsAndWeekends.com in February of 2002, Kristin has spent her life surrounded by piles and piles of books and movies—so many that her office has become a kind of entertainment obstacle course.
As if her writing and editing responsibilities for N&W.com weren’t enough to keep her out of trouble, Kristin also hosts a number of weekly radio shows: Reel Discovery, Shelf Discovery, and On the Marquee. She’s also a proud member of the Broadcast Film Critics Association (CriticsChoice.com), the Central Ohio Film Critics Association (COFCA.org), the Online Film Critics Society (OFCS.org), and the Women Film Critics Circle (WFCC.Wordpress.com).
Kristin lives in Columbus, Ohio, with her husband, Paul, and their daughter, Anna. She welcomes questions, comments, and fan mail at kdk@nightsandweekends.com.
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