Bad Monkey
Carl Hiaasen
Private eye & detective · Dark comedy
Audiobook
Detective mysteries with satire
A detective's work can take them through institutions that prefer not to explain themselves. Satire uses that access to find comic targets in power and respectability, making the way a case is handled as revealing as the secrets behind it.
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