Bad monkey
Ratings21
Average rating3.6
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Ratings21
Average rating3.6
Andrew Yancy, late of the Miami Police, soon-to-be-late of the Key West Police, has a human arm in his freezer. There is a logical explanation for that, but not for how and why it parted from its owner. Yancy thinks the boating-accident/shark-luncheon explanation is full of holes, and if he can prove murder, his commander might relieve him of Health Inspector duties, aka Roach Patrol. But first Yancy will negotiate an ever-surprising course of events, from the Keys to Miami to a Bahamian out island, with a crew of equally ever-surprising characters, including: the twitchy widow of the frozen arm; an avariciously idiotic real estate developer; a voodoo witch whose lovers are blinded-unto-death by her particularly peculiar charms; Yancy's new love, a kinky medical examiner; and the eponymous Bad Monkey.
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It finished perhaps the best way it could have given where we were.
Bad Monkey? Talk about bad people. Not one of the main or secondary characters in this story is not a terrible person. They are all terrible.
I think folks who like detective novels or somewhat lighthearted crime (is that a genre) will like this.
The thing about these books is you know it's going to work out in the end. The fun is trying to figure the con and how it's going to be resolved based on the title Bad Monkey and the opening chapter where a honeymooning couple reels in a severed arm off the Florida Keys.
Our protagonist Andrew Yancy is a disgraced Florida detective booted to roach patrol working as a restaurant inspector after anally assaulting a former girlfriend's husband with a Black and Decker vacuum (naturally). Hiaasen's got flavour and delivers a fun, distracting ride.
