Bad Monkey

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.