Fans of the crime writer Carl Hiaasen know you don't so much read one of his novels as climb into it and enjoy the ride.
The former Miami Herald reporter has an extensive canon, but his core are 12 roller-coaster romps set in the sunshine state of Florida, each populated by an original menagerie of grotesques; crooks; losers; damsels seldom-in-distress, and at least one tarnished hero on a mission to right wrongs.
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