A crime caper which bounces from one ridiculous scenario to another in a highly addictive fashion. He is a joy to read, oodles of plot, wacky characters, the dangerous heat of Florida’s Everglades and a real laugh. You’ll love it. I must tell you a little bit about the publishing background.
He is huge in the States but hasn’t totally caught on over here so he’s changed publisher and is now going to be marketed as comic literature coming from the same publisher as Bill Bryson and Ben Elton. What is interesting is that neither of those big authors were massive bestsellers until they too switched to the publisher Transworld. I love him.
Comparison: Charlie Higson, Ben Elton, Janet Evanovich.
Similar this month: None but try Matt Beaumont for humour and Alistair Beaton for the improbable.

Joey Perrone is a woman with a mission. She’s just been pushed overboard from a cruise liner into the icy Atlantic Ocean by Chaz, her scumbag of a husband – and survived to tell the tale. She knows that Chaz is not the brightest marine scientist in the world – hell, he can’t even work out which way the Gulf Stream runs.
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Joey Perrone is a woman with a mission. She’s just been pushed overboard from a cruise liner into the icy Atlantic Ocean by Chaz, her scumbag of a husband – and survived to tell the tale.
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Skinny Dip was written by Carl Hiaasen and published by Transworld Publishers Ltd
Skinny Dip has 475 pages
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