Watch your back Hiaasen! Why? Well, Martha Grimes has taken a brief trip to Florida and in has caressed the Everglades in her wonderful style of humor. If you're reading this and think, oh it's a Florida book, you'd be wrong, and it was cruel of me to mislead you. This wonderful book is about the zany justice two contract killers enact against an inscrutable agent. I can't without spoiling it tell you why they do it. Or how they drag characters from her previous work "Foul Matter" into it. But I am going to say this was so much fun to read that I had to have the book taken out of my hands (between chapter 47 and 48) because my laughter was keeping everybody awake. Who sleeps at 2AM?This is a sequel, but since it had been a while since I read "Foul Matter" it took me awhile until the plot of that book seeped into my consciousness. It wasn't forgettable, I just read a lot and fast. Martha writes the "Richard Jury Series," which I loved enough to crawl in between and under the West Palm Beach Library stacks to find the book that was missing but was supposed to be there.She is a lady and a humorist. She is a writer and a story teller. And she has my esteem. This book is a departure for Martha Grimes, best known for her Richard Jury novels--this one is the second in a series about two hit men. In this one, they terrorize a small bit publisher who is trying to get money out of a successful author that he does not deserve--so instead of puting a hit on him, they try to spook him in a serious way. Funny and well written, although it is not exactly my cup of tea when it comes to murder mysteries.
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Pretty light for Martha Grimes. Kind of like Martha Grimes meets Elmore Leonard.A fun read.
—melody
Didn't finish this book; seemed a waste of time. I'm very tired of foul language.
—reza
I was in the mood for some kooky, mindless fun and found it in this book.
—Rac
