Friday, April 18, 2014

BAD MONKEY by Carl Hiaasen ****

This novel centers mostly around the Keys of FL. The main character Andrew Yancy, kicked off the police force is investigating restaurants as a demotion so of course there are more and more places he's scared to eat at. His predecessor died of food poisoning I believe.

While his restaurant stuff is ongoing he gets an arm from shoulder to fingers and puts it in his freezer so he's trying to solve this case where a guy seems to be dead, the wife and daughter will share in the 2 million life insurance policy but there's a secret in their story that Andrew has to figure out.

Sometimes author uses first name, other times last name-one of my pet peeves. We really don't even require last names of these FAKE CHARACTERS now do we? C'mon. Maybe author is shooting for ancestry? Or religious stuff? IDK.

The monkey part is for ridiculous stuff happening. He was gotten in a card game I believe, then ends up with a voodoo woman, then flees for awhile into the town and the original owner has him back by the end of them movie. He's not really much of a player in the book. Bunch of disconnected things come together at the end. Nice surprise ending in a way. You'll like it, I enjoyed the read.


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