{"product_id":"tourist-season-isbn-9780399587146","title":"Tourist Season","description":"\u003cb\u003eTake 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eThe 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...\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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 \u003ci\u003eGQ\u003c\/i\u003e called “one of the top ten destination reads of all time.”\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eTourist Season\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Brash mystery adventure...ferocious fun....There's a fresh breeze, if not a full-scale hurricane, up from Miami. Hiaasen, himself a columnist for the \u003ci\u003eMiami Herald\u003c\/i\u003e, writes with sardonic wit in a style so breezy that you want to hang on to the mast with both hands.”—Marilyn Stasio, \u003ci\u003eThe Columbus Dispatch\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A terrific send-up of Floridiana...zany...satire as withering as a Dade County frost at the peak of citrus harvest...one novelist who never seems to forget for a minute that a chief purpose of any work of fiction is to entertain.”—\u003ci\u003eThe Cleveland Plain Dealer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A remarkable example of what talented writers are doing these days with the mystery novel.”—Tony Hillerman, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Makes \u003ci\u003eMiami Vice\u003c\/i\u003e look like \u003ci\u003eTerry and the Pirates\u003c\/i\u003e....I can't remember another novel that combines violence and comedy as successfully.”—John D. MacDonald, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of the Travis McGee series\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Fiendish suspense and wicked black humor...does for Florida what \u003ci\u003eCandy\u003c\/i\u003e did for sex, and what \u003ci\u003eSemi-Tough\u003c\/i\u003e did for football. A rollicking, exciting, exceptional book.”—John Katzenbach, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eHart’s War\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Ferocious and ferociously funny. You race through its pages at a gallop.”—John Godey,\u003ci\u003e New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Taking of Pelham One Two Three\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A most engaging novel....Hiaasen has perfectly blended black humor with stark terror.”—Associated Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A wonderful achievement, continuously inventive and surprising, very funny but deadly serious beneath the laughs. Hiassen's voice is his own...a hell of a job.”—Pete Hamill, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eForever\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Wondrously told! \u003ci\u003eTourist Season\u003c\/i\u003e is what we read novels for—high entertainment and high excitement.”—Richard Condon, author of \u003ci\u003ePrizzi’s Honor\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eCarl Hiaasen\u003c\/b\u003e was born and raised in Florida. He is the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of sixteen novels, including \u003ci\u003eRazor Girl\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBad Monkey\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eStar Island\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNature Girl\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSkinny Dip\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSick Puppy\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLucky You\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSkin Tight\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Tourist Season\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eFever Beach,\u003c\/i\u003e as well as the bestselling children's books, \u003ci\u003eSquirm\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHoot\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFlush\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eScat\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eChomp\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eSkink\u003c\/i\u003e. His most recent work of nonfiction is \u003ci\u003eAssume the Worst\u003c\/i\u003e, a collaboration with the artist Roz Chast.","brand":"Berkley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301132980453,"sku":"NP9780399587146","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780399587146.jpg?v=1767742859","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/tourist-season-isbn-9780399587146","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}