Carl Hiaasen

Roy, who is new to his small Florida community, becomes involved in another boy's attempt to save a colony of burrowing owls from a proposed construction site. Unfortunately, Roy's first acquaintance in Florida is Dana Matherson, a well-known bully. Then again, if Dana hadn't been sinking his thumbs into Roy's temples and mashing his face against the school-bus window, Roy might never have spotted the running boy. And the running boy is intriguing:...

Nick and Marta are both suspicious when their biology teacher, the feared Mrs. Bunny Starch, disappears, and try to uncover the truth despite the police and headmaster's insistence that nothing is wrong.

"Meet twenty-two-year-old Cherry Pye, a pop star since she was fourteen - and about to attempt a comeback from her latest drug-and-alcohol disaster. Now meet Cherry's 'undercover stunt double', Ann DeLusia. Ann portrays Cherry whenever the singer is too wasted to go out in public. And it is Ann-mistaken-for-Cherry who is kidnapped from a South Beach hotel by obsessed paparazzi Bang Abbott. Cherry's handlers want to rescue Ann while keeping her existence...

Andrew Yancy, late of the Miami Police, soon-to-be-late of the Key West Police, has a human arm in his freezer. There is a logical explanation for that, but not for how and why it parted from its owner. Yancy thinks the boating-accident/shark-luncheon explanation is full of holes, and if he can prove murder, his commander might relieve him of Health Inspector duties, aka Roach Patrol. But first Yancy will negotiate an ever-surprising course of events,...

Fed up with telemarketers and suffering from manic-depressive illness, Honey Santana plans to teach salesman Boyd Shreave a lesson and arranges a meeting with him in the Florida Everglades, but when she arrives, she realizes she isn't the only one using the remote site to deal with their problems.

Forty-two-year-old former Florida state investigator Mick Stranahan, having just speared an intruder with a stuffed marlin head, realizes that someone wants him dead, but it is going to take a lot of work to sort through the long list of suspects.

After a hurricane rips through southern Florida, Max Lamb convinces his wife to skip the Disney World honeymoon and go to Dade County to videotape the damage. While Max is exploring through the rubble, he disappears.

A Miami Herald reporter who struck a blow against corrupt entrepreneurs in Tourist Season, Hiaasen follows through with this acid satire, a real double whammy. Private detective R. J. Decker is hired to prove that TV host Dickie Lockhart cheats to win fortunes in Florida bass-fishing tournaments. The investigation makes Decker a prey to hired killers who have murdered other ``snoops,'' but the detective also finds a strong if weird ally in a hermit...

Private detective Brian Keyes becomes mixed up in a morass of football players, politicians, police, fanatics, and one hungry crocodile when he sets out to discover who killed loyal Shriner Theodore Bellamy and Sparky Harper, president of the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce.

"When Palmer Stoat notices the black pickup truck following him on the highway, he fears his precious Range Rover is about to be carjacked. But Twilly Spree, the man tailing Stoat, has vengeance, not sport-utility vehicles, on his mind. Idealistic, independently wealthy and pathologically short-tempered, Twilly has dedicated himself to saving Florida's wilderness from runaway destruction."--Author's website.