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Tourist Season
Someone is making Miami’s tourist season dangerous. As visitors disappear and a civic leader turns up dead, former reporter Brian Keyes investigates a case the local boosters would rather keep quiet. Tourist revenue gives them plenty of reason to avoid alarming headlines.
From the publisher’s blurb
“The locals are desperate to keep the murders under wraps and the tourist money flowing.”Read the full description at Penguin Random House publisher description
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What makes it funny?
The local Chamber of Commerce president dies with a toy alligator in his throat. An attack on a cruise ship involves rattlesnakes dropped from above. Hiaasen gives the campaign against tourism a grotesque selection of props.
The comedy at work
A place trying to sell a carefree holiday has to explain increasingly spectacular violence. Hiaasen directs the satire at the people profiting from Florida’s development and the destructive anger of those trying to stop it.
Try this if…
For readers who want cynical crime satire with environmental anger and gallows humor. Kirkus found the jokes forced, while clearly identifying the book’s commitment to black comedy.
Good to know
The violence includes graphic mutilation, murders, bombings and attacks involving animals.
A few distinguishing details
- A murder investigation that threatens tourist revenue
- Florida boosterism meets grotesque crime
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