Mermaid Confidential: A Novel
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Serge A. Storms gives condo living a try in this off-the-wall, acid-splashed Florida crime caper from the "insanely funny" (New York Times Book Review) Tim Dorsey.
"Delightfully madcap... This fiendishly funny adventure is irresistible." — Publishers Weekly
Serge A. Storms and his permanently baked sidekick, Coleman, have decided to pump the brakes and live on island time. After years of manic road tripping across their beloved Sunshine State, the irrepressible anti-heroes drop anchor in the Florida Keys. They settle down in Pelican Bay, a thriving condo complex with scenic views and friendly neighbors. But the community is at war with investors who are buying up units and leasing them to young vacationers who party at all hours. With their little slice of heaven on the line, Serge takes it upon himself to convince the tourists to move on and quickly becomes a local favorite.
Meanwhile, the island chain's long and rich smuggling heritage is causing mayhem—a gang war erupts when a local drug lord passes the family business to his young, enterprising son, and the sun-loving residents are suddenly dodging bullets.
Luckily, Florida's most lovable serial killer is there to help!
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Tim Dorsey. (2022). Mermaid Confidential: A Novel. HarperCollins.
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Tim Dorsey was a reporter and editor for the Tampa Tribune from 1987 to 1999, and is the author of twenty-five other novels: Mermaid Confidential, Tropic of Stupid, Naked Came the Florida Man, No Sunscreen for the Dead, Pope of Palm Beach, Clownfish Blues, Coconut Cowboy, Shark Skin Suite, Tiger Shrimp Tango, The Riptide Ultra-Glide, When Elves Attack, Pineapple Grenade, Electric Barracuda, Gator A-Go-Go, Nuclear Jellyfish, Atomic Lobster, Hurricane Punch, The Big Bamboo, Torpedo Juice, Cadillac Beach, The Stingray Shuffle, Triggerfish Twist, Orange Crush, Hammerhead Ranch Motel, and Florida Roadkill. He lives in Florida.
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Serge A. Storms gives condo living a try in this off-the-wall, acid-splashed Florida crime caper from the "insanely funny" (New York Times Book Review) Tim Dorsey.
"Delightfully madcap... This fiendishly funny adventure is irresistible." — Publishers Weekly
Serge A. Storms and his permanently baked sidekick, Coleman, have decided to pump the brakes and live on island time. After years of manic road tripping across their beloved Sunshine State, the irrepressible anti-heroes drop anchor in the Florida Keys. They settle down in Pelican Bay, a thriving condo complex with scenic views and friendly neighbors. But the community is at war with investors who are buying up units and leasing them to young vacationers who party at all hours. With their little slice of heaven on the line, Serge takes it upon himself to convince the tourists to move on and quickly becomes a local favorite.
Meanwhile, the island chain's long and rich smuggling heritage is causing mayhem—a gang war erupts when a local drug lord passes the family business to his young, enterprising son, and the sun-loving residents are suddenly dodging bullets.
Luckily, Florida's most lovable serial killer is there to help!
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"Delightfully madcap...The suspenseful, seemingly unconnected subplots imaginatively intertwine as Dorsey brings everything to a suitably vicious and explosive finale. This fiendishly funny adventure is irresistible." — Publishers Weekly on Mermaid Confidential
"Dorsey has used his novels to showcase Florida, to embrace its eccentricities, its residents' bizarre behavior and its unusual history. Dorsey shows he loves Florida in each novel...Dorsey ladles each novel with wide swaths of humor that is more guttural yet still funny. Like [Carl] Hiaasen, Dorsey's humor is grounded in reality...Mermaid Confidential is more Keys-centric as he adds trivia and history that is 'so nectar-of-Florida.'" — South Florida Sun-Sentinel on Mermaid Confidential
"Fans of the lovable Serge will enjoy his latest zany Florida adventures in Dorsey's 25th series installment." — Library Journal on Mermaid Confidential
"A wacky celebration of violence, depravity and the weirdness of Florida. Think the Three Stooges meets Ted Bundy . . . sure to appeal to readers who think that Carl Hiaasen's slapstick noir novels are too darned subtle." — Associated Press on Tropic of Stupid
"A rollicking road trip we'd love to sign up for. " — New York Times Book Review on No Sunscreen for the Dead
"With what is his best title yet, best-selling Tampa author Tim Dorsey returns with his 24th adventure...a 'fan'-tastic, worthy addition to the pantheon." — Florida Times-Union on Tropic of Stupid
"Can it still be hurricane season? Must be, because here come Serge A. Storms and his perpetually stoned bro, Coleman, in Tim Dorsey's gonzo crime caper Naked Came the Florida Man." — New York Times Book Review
"Dorsey's latest in the humorous crime fiction category highlights that outrageous brand of Florida humor. With chaos always at his side, Serge A. Storms is back, and this time, he's on a cemetery tour across the state, investigating an urban myth that just might be real and causing mayhem along the way." — Parade on Naked Came the Florida Man
"Upping the ante has always been the strategy for Tim Dorsey's books, which are built on a peculiarly Floridian brand of outrageousness. So it's no surprise that in his latest, Naked Came the Florida Man, Dorsey reaches a new high in that respect." — Newsday
"Bestseller Dorsey breezes through his 24th comic novel . . . mixing the slapstick humor of the Three Stooges with Sunshine State details that would make a Florida history professor envious." — Publishers Weekly on Tropic of Stupid
"This hugely entertaining series . . . [has] been one delightful adventure after another. Storms is a wonderful character, a man with a can-do attitude and, well, a unique sense of retribution. You can't help liking the guy: he is, by all objective standards, a dangerously insane psychopath, but to Serge, it's the rest of the world that's crazy, while he's merely a misunderstood crusader for law and order. A new Dorsey novel is always a cause for celebration among readers who like their heroes more than a little bent." — Booklist on Tropic of Stupid
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In bestseller Dorsey’s delightfully madcap 25th crime novel featuring Serge A. Storms (after 2021’s Tropic of Stupid), vigilante serial killer Serge and his stoner pal, Coleman, take a break from road trips and criminal pursuits to become responsible tenants at Pelican Bay, a bustling condominium complex in the Florida Keys. But, alas, the condo’s fun-loving community spirit has given way to petty squabbles, drunk and disorderly behavior, gun violence, and malicious prank calls to police, with boisterous, disruptive renters causing havoc within the complex. Finding themselves in the thick of things, Serge and Coleman are encouraged to take suitable action against troublesome occupants on behalf of their friendly neighbors. Meanwhile, a blast across from Pelican Bay on a neighboring key, which injures dozens, including members of the infamous Millan cartel, heralds the onset of a turf war between the cartel and the Benzappa family, and a gang of murderous drug smugglers with a treasure map head for the Keys to unearth a hoard of buried cash. The suspenseful, seemingly unconnected subplots imaginatively intertwine as Dorsey brings everything to a suitably vicious and explosive finale. This fiendishly funny adventure is irresistible. Agent: Nat Sobel, Sobel Weber Assoc.
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Serge A. Storms, Florida's most lovable history buff and serial killer, is trying to settle down. No, he's not getting married. But he and his sidekick, Coleman, Florida's most lovable drug-and-booze-addicted slacker, have acquired themselves a condominium, and Serge is looking forward to putting his manic phase behind him and adopting a slower-paced lifestyle. Unfortunately, Serge and Coleman have landed right in the middle of a dispute between condo owners and part-time renters (that and a little gang war). If you know Serge, you know two things: he absolutely cannot remain a passive observer, and somebody's going to get what's coming to them. Dorsey, a former newspaperman, began the Storms series in 1999, with Florida Roadkill, and has published more than a book a year ever since. It remains a wonderful series. Serge is a psychopath whose idiosyncratic sense of justice leads him to commit some truly bizarre crimes; by all rights, he should be a villain, but here he's the hero, a fellow with an absolute sense of right and wrong in a world that lacks absolutes (plus, he's just so damned lovable). Although there are 25 books in the series, Dorsey and Serge show no signs of slowing down, condo or no condo.COPYRIGHT(2021) Booklist, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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Serge Storms, Florida's serial killer with a heart of gold, moves to Key West to try condo living with Coleman, his friend whose brain is permanently damaged from drug use. The Keys are the appropriate habitat for the wacky duo who enjoy their neighbors except for a vacationer who takes up permanent residence. Serge's methods work to temporarily evict the man, until he takes revenge by calling the SWAT team on the neighborhood's spaghetti and game nights. Serge also meets Julie Cootehill, a children's hospice volunteer who lives in a mansion owned by a crime family and takes care of her own aged father and the crime family's ailing kingpin. A gang war is about to break out in Key West, and a carload of bad actors is heading straight down Highway 1, with a map pointing to Julie's father's house. Serge's new mission was to slow down and relax, but since his new friend Julie and her hospice charges have been targeted by an international gang, Serge can't yet kick back into the Key West lifestyle. VERDICT Fans of the lovable Serge will enjoy his latest zany Florida adventures in Dorsey's 25th series installment, following Tropic of Stupid.--Lesa Holstine
Copyright 2022 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
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