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Bad Monkey

by Carl Hiaasen

A severed arm, a disputed accident, and a Florida Keys investigation

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AlbakiReads Editorial

A severed arm, a disputed accident, and a Florida Keys investigation

A human arm turns up in Andrew Yancy’s freezer, giving the former Miami police officer a grisly case—and a possible route back from his health-inspector job. He doubts the official boating-accident explanation and begins probing whether the arm’s owner was murdered. The investigation unfolds amid a cast that includes a fugitive ex-lover, a widow, real-estate speculators, a coroner, and the mysterious Dragon Queen. The book’s dark-humor premise puts a murder inquiry alongside an unruly mix of characters and bizarre circumstances, with the titular monkey also part of the ensemble.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Adults who enjoy mysteries with dark humor
  • Readers interested in eccentric ensemble casts and crime investigations
  • Fans of Carl Hiaasen’s fiction

Themes

Murder investigationDark humorUnpredictable charactersFlorida Keys setting

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Book overview

Now an Apple TV+ Original series starring Vince Vaughn

A gleefully zany and incisively sharp mystery from the bestselling author of Fever Beach.

"A rollicking, darkly hilarious series that's both compulsively watchable and plain old fun." --The Ringer

Andrew Yancy-late of the Miami Police and soon-to-be-late of the Monroe County sheriff's office-has a human arm in his freezer. There's a logical (Hiaasenian) explanation for that, but not for how and why it parted from its shadowy owner. Yancy thinks the boating-accident/shark-luncheon explanation is full of holes, and if he can prove murder, the sheriff might rescue him from his grisly Health Inspector gig (it's not called the roach patrol for nothing).

But first--this being Hiaasen country--Yancy must negotiate an obstacle course of wildly unpredictable events with a crew of even more wildly unpredictable characters, including his just-ex lover, a hot-blooded fugitive from Oklahoma; the twitchy widow of the frozen arm; two avariciously optimistic real-estate speculators; the Bahamian voodoo witch known as the Dragon Queen, whose suitors are blinded unto death by her peculiar charms; Yancy's new true love, a kinky coroner; and the eponymous bad monkey--who just may be one of Carl Hiaasen's greatest characters.
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