Tourist Season A Suspense Thriller [Paperback]

Take a trip to exotic South Florida with this dark, funny book that established Carl Hiaasen as one of the top mystery writers in the game.

The first sign of trouble is a Shriner's fez washed up on a Miami beach. The next is a suitcase containing the almost-legless body of the local chamber of commerce president found floating in a canal...

The locals are desperate to keep the murders under wraps and the tourist money flowing. But it will take a reporter-turned–private eye to make sense of a caper that mixes football players, politicians, and one very hungry crocodile in this classic mystery thatGQcalled “one of the top ten destination reads of all time.”Praise forTourist Season

Brash mystery adventure...ferocious fun....There's a fresh breeze, if not a full-scale hurricane, up from Miami. Hiaasen, himself a columnist for theMiami Herald, writes with sardonic wit in a style so breezy that you want to hang on to the mast with both hands.”—Marilyn Stasio,The Columbus Dispatch

A terrific send-up of Floridiana...zany...satire as withering as a Dade County frost at the peak of citrus harvest...one novelist who never seems to forget for a minute that a chief purpose of any work of fiction is to entertain.”—The Cleveland Plain Dealer

“A remarkable example of what talented writers are doing these days with the mystery novel.”—Tony Hillerman,The New York Times Book Review

“MakesMiami Vicelook likeTerry and the Pirates....I can't remember another novel that combines violence and comedy as successfully.”—John D. MacDonald,New York Timesbestselling author of the Travis McGee series

“Fiendish suspense and wicked black humor...does for Florida whatCandydid for sex, and whatSemi-Toughdid for football. A rollicking, exciting, exceptional book.”—Johl#¤