I enjoy Bill Lawrence’s TV shows, so I’ve been looking forward to seeing Apple TV’s Bad Monkey, starring Vince Vaughn. On an impulse, though, I decided to read the novel first, figuring that I would never read the book if I’d already seen the show. I’ve heard good things about Hiaasen for years, and as an Elmore Leonard fan I figured he was right up my alley. Unfortunately, I was wrong. Bad Monkey did remind me of Elmore Leonard, but only because it seemed like […]

It’s always interesting to read books like this from a pre-internet era and muse on how different the world was a very short time ago.  So many plot points here would just disappear if google existed in Mick Stranahan’s world. It’s almost quaint reading the leaps our hero makes to trap a killer plastic surgeon, the strings he pulls and the traps he sets in 1980’s Florida that would be completely unnecessary now. There’s a cute scene involving an accurate sketch of the doctor’s hired […]