Bad Monkey

by Carl Hiaasen

Andrew Yancy, late of the Miami Police, soon-to-be-late of the Key West Police, has a human arm in his freezer. There is a logical explanation for that, but not for how and why it parted from its owner. Yancy thinks the boating-accident/shark-luncheon explanation is full of holes, and if he can prove murder, his commander might relieve him of Health Inspector duties, aka Roach Patrol. But first Yancy will negotiate an ever-surprising course of events, from the Keys to Miami to a Bahamian out island, with a crew of equally ever-surprising characters, including: the twitchy widow of the frozen arm; an avariciously idiotic real estate developer; a voodoo witch whose lovers are blinded-unto-death by her particularly peculiar charms; Yancy's new love, a kinky medical examiner; and the eponymous Bad Monkey.

• ISBN10: 0307272591
• ISBN13: 9780307272591
• Publish Date: 11 June 2013 (first published 1 January 2013)
• Publish Status: Out of Stock
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: Knopf Publishing Group
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 317
• Language: English

Reviews

[jamiereadthis]

Five stars for the Hiaasen book. Five stars for the Arte Johnson narration. Five stars for making me nearly wreck my car from laughing myself blind. Five stars for Rosa, and Yancy, and Evan Shook, and Plover Chase, and Cody Parish, and Neville and Driggs, and Stoney’s Crab Palace. So about fifty-five stars. That sounds about right.

For real, though. I listened to this one while road-tripping down to the coast and it was perfect place, perfect time. (Minus the almost-wrecking-my-car bit.) Sometimes a book just gets you like that. I knew it would be Hiaasen, but I wasn’t prepared to want more Arte Johnson reading Carl Hiaasen right now in my life.

He wondered if something was mentally wrong with him for being content with what he had.