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Old 07-28-11 | 04:08 PM
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I've been on a Florida author crime thriller kick this summer so I've read:

Carl Hiaasen:
Nature Girl

Tim Dorsey
Florida Roadkill
Hammerhead Ranch Motel
Orange Crush
Triggerfish Twist
The Stingray Shuffle

Laurence Shames:
Mangrove Squeeze
The Naked Detective

Edna Buchanan:
Miami, It's Murder

James Grippando:
The Pardon
The Informant
The Abduction
Beyond Suspicion
Last Call

Charlaine Harris:
Dead Until Dark
(Book one of the Sookie Stackhouse novels, which the HBO tv show "True Blood" is based on.) I actually liked it, even though I had already watched a couple of seasons of the show.

Shames was okay. Some really wordy narrative descriptions, but having spent a lot of time in the Florida Keys, I enjoy the stories. Grippando is a great storyteller. Dorsey is bizarre and twisted like Hiaasen. I've read a lot of Hiaasen in the past. I really like Dorsey. Buchanan was rather pedestrian and boring.

Even though I've already seen the Swedish movies, I'm going to start reading the Steig Larsson Millenium trilogy (The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo is the first book)
So in a couple of weeks my summer ends and I go back to hardly reading anything.
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