Tim M Dorsey

Orange Crush

The Republicans' "golden boy" -- and a loyal, unquestioning tool of the powerful special interests -- handsome, unthreatening, Florida governor-by-default Marlon Conrad seems a virtual shoo-in for re-election. That is, until he undergoes a radical personality shift during a bloody military action in...

Hammerhead Ranch Motel

There's a different schemer or slimeball behind every door: cocaine duckpins who have survived only by the dumbest fortune, hard-luck gigolos desperate to score, undercover cops busting undercover cops who are running sting operations on undercover cops. And just down the row, local historian and sp...

When Elves Attack: A Joyous Christmas Greeting from the Criminal Nutbars of the Sunshine State

“The undisputed king of the comic crime novel.”—Providence JournalNobody does Florida weirdness quite like Tim Dorsey! Case in point: When Elves Attack, the New York Times bestselling author’s twisted Christmas present to his legion of adoring fans who can’t get enough of thrill-killer and Sunshine ...

Tiger Shrimp Tango: A Novel (Serge Storms)

Electric Barracuda: A Novel

Serge Storms, that loveable thermonuclear vigilante and one-stop-Florida-trivia-shop, has been leaving corpses strewn across the Sunshine State for more than a decade. The authorities—especially one tenacious state agent—have begun to notice the exponential body count, and send a police task force ...

The Stingray Shuffle

When serial-killing local Florida historian Serge A. Storms is off his meds, no one is safe -- not Russian hoods, Jamaican mobsters, spoiled frat boys, women's book clubs, drug dealers, bad Vegas-rejected local lounge acts -- especially when $5 million in cash in a bugged suitcase is still racing up...

Atomic Lobster (Serge a. Storms)

Serge A. Storms is back with a bullet, torn between homicide and souvenirs, cranking up the fevered action as the pot boils over on a street called Lobster Lane. It's reunion time in the Sunshine State, and we're not just talking the family jamboree of the blood-soaked McGraw criminal clan, whose na...

Pineapple Grenade: A Novel

“The undisputed king of the comic crime novel.”—Providence Journal“I guarantee Dorsey will never win the Nobel Prize for Literature—he’s far too funny.”—Richmond Times-Dispatch“If you’ve never read Dorsey, you need to start…You won’t be disappointed.”—Miami HeraldGloriously unrepentant Florida seria...

John D. MacDald

…Most of the current crop of Florida-based mystery writers acknowledge a debt to MacDonald, including Randy Wayne White, James Hall, Les Standiford, Jonathon King and Tim Dorsey.[6] Lawrence Block's New York-based fictional hero, Matthew Scudder, is a character who makes his living doing just...

Tim Dorsey

Tim Dorsey (born 1961) is an American novelist. His writing style is frequently compared to those of Dave Barry and Carl Hiaasen (who both had cameo...