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Tourist Season: A Suspense Thriller

by Carl Hiaasen

Tourism, murder, and South Florida intrigue

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    Named by GQ as one of the top ten destination reads of all time

    GQ called the book one of its top ten destination reads of all time.

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Tourism, murder, and South Florida intrigue

A body found in a canal and a Shriner’s fez on a Miami beach set off a mystery entangled with the local effort to protect the tourist trade. A reporter turned private investigator takes on a case involving football players, politicians, and a hungry crocodile. South Florida’s tourism economy is more than scenery here: it gives the investigation a public-relations complication, as local interests seek to keep the murders quiet while visitors keep coming. The premise brings civic image-making into the same web as the criminal caper.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers seeking a suspense mystery set in South Florida.
  • Those interested in crime stories involving local politics and tourism.
  • Readers who enjoy mysteries with an unusual animal element.

Themes

Tourism and civic imageMurder investigationLocal politicsCrime and public relations

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Book overview

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 that GQ called "one of the top ten destination reads of all time."
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