Skin Tight

In Carl Hiaasen's Skin Tight, the first installment in the Mick Stranahan comedic mystery series, this debut will have you laughing out loud and shake your head a few time. Meet Mick Stranahan, a lone man who lives in Stiltsville Florida, and a former private investigator. It all started when someone tried to kill him at his home, when he used his prized marlin to make him into mincemeat and chum out of him. That's when he started to investigate the issue on why someone who wanted him dead and learned it had to do with a cold case of a missing person named Vicky Barletta. For Dr. Rudy Graveline, he was the plastic surgeon who knew the truth and hired Blondell Tatum, aka "Chemo" who's a tall man with a disformed face to track him down. And he ended up with losing his own hand in that brutal fight. Everyone wants a piece of the action like Reynoldo Flemm, who would do anything for a story, and Maggie Gonzalez, who pinned the fallout on Mick and covered up the real truth. And there's Christina Marks, who works for Flemm, and finds out more than she bargained for to get the scoop. Besides crooked cops, doctors and politicians, everybody wants it hushed up before it could ruin everything when the real truth comes out with a grisly ending that can't be missed.

This humorous mystery would have you in stitches from start to finish. You won't be able to put it down and read it in more than one sitting. I did care for Mick who's a loner and has rotten luck with his failed marriages and falling in love with women. I did like Christina and Rey, who would do anything for top billing of a hot story. I did like the picturesque descriptions throughout Miami and other locations in Florida for the settings. This would make you head spin in circles, blushing red, non-stop laughter and gasp and groan with non-stop action, hint of intrigue, drama and sparks of mystery.

Will you ready to try Skin Tight on size tonight?

Watch out for Gators

If you love a good mystery or thriller with a twist, you'll enjoy Carl Hiaasen's Tourist Season. It has a bit of dark humor thrown into mayhem and not really classified as horror. Set in Southern Florida, it's up to Brian Keyes, an ex-reporter turned PI to stop a local terrorist cell from kidnapping or killing tourists in general, all for the name of driving the tourists away from Florida with an environmental slant to it. Some parts may be a bit gruesome, but not too hard core. It's a nice read.