Bad Monkey
Carl Hiaasen
Fiction H52b 2014
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
unpredictable characters, including his just-ex lover, a hot-blooded
fugitive from Kansas; the twitchy widow of the frozen arm; two
avariciously optimistic real-estate speculators; the Bahamian voodoo
witch known as the Dragon Queen, whose suitors are blinded unto death by
her peculiar charms; Yancy's new true love, a kinky coroner; and the
eponymous bad monkey-who just may be one of Carl Hiaasen's greatest
characters.
(From publisher.)
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