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A lovable con woman and a disgraced detective team up to find a redneck reality TV star in this raucous and razor-sharp new novel from Carl Hiaasen, the bestselling author of Bad Monkey. Merry Mansfield, the eponymous Razor Girl, specializes in kidnapping for the mob. Her preferred method is rear-ending her targets and asking them for a ride. Her latest mark is Martin Trebeaux, owner of a private beach renourishment company who has delivered substandard sand to a mob hotel. But there's just one problem: Razor Girl hits the wrong guy. Instead, she ends up with Lane Coolman, talent manager for Buck Nance, the star of a reality TV show about a family of Cajun rooster farmers. Buck Nance, left to perform standup at a Key West bar without his handler, makes enough off-color jokes to incite a brawl, then flees for his life and vanishes. Now a routine promotional appearance has become a missing persons case. And Andrew Yancy, disgraced detective-turned-health inspector, is on the job. That the Razor Girl may be the key to Yancy's future will be as surprising to him as anything else he encounters along the way—including the giant Gambian pouched rats that are haunting his restaurant inspections.
Series
2 primary booksAndrew Yancy is a 2-book series with 2 primary works first released in 2012 with contributions by Carl Hiaasen.
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Over the past few years, I've started a winter tradition - when we have the first real cold snap of winter, I read a Carl Hiassen novel. They're always fun, popcorn-for-dinner style crime novels, and most importantly, they're all set in warm, sunny Florida. I dive into the book and let the descriptions of beaches and everglades keep me warm while the slush piles up around my winter boots.
This one's set in the middle of Florida winter, which counteracts that a bit. But it's not something I can really hold against it.
Razor Girl was a fascinating experience in situational ethics because EVERYONE in the book is running a scam. Some of those scams are legal, and some aren't; some of them could even be argued to be ethical, from a certain point of view. But scam, scam, everywhere's a scam; Hiassen's Florida is a place that's nice to visit from a distance, but you definitely wouldn't want to live there.