Skink novels (Carl Hiaasen)
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Skink novels (Carl Hiaasen) volume 1
Pub. Date
2005, c1987
Description
A Miami Herald reporter who struck a blow against corrupt entrepreneurs in Tourist Season, Hiaasen follows through with this acid satire, a real double whammy. Private detective R. J. Decker is hired to prove that TV host Dickie Lockhart cheats to win fortunes in Florida bass-fishing tournaments. The investigation makes Decker a prey to hired killers who have murdered other ``snoops,'' but the detective also finds a strong if weird ally in a hermit...
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Skink novels (Carl Hiaasen) volume 2
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When the precious blue-tongued mango voles at the Amazing Kingdom of Thrills on North Key Largo are stolen by heartless, ruthless thugs, Joe Winder wants to uncover why, and find the voles. Joe is lately a PR man for the Amazing Kingdom theme park, but now that the voles are gone, Winder is dragged along in their wake through a series of weird and lethal events that begin with the sleazy real-estate agent/villain Francis X. Kingsbury and can end only...
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Skink novels (Carl Hiaasen) volume 3
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After a hurricane rips through southern Florida, Max Lamb convinces his wife to skip the Disney World honeymoon and go to Dade County to videotape the damage. While Max is exploring through the rubble, he disappears.
4) Sick puppy
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Skink novels (Carl Hiaasen) volume 4
Description
"When Palmer Stoat notices the black pickup truck following him on the highway, he fears his precious Range Rover is about to be carjacked. But Twilly Spree, the man tailing Stoat, has vengeance, not sport-utility vehicles, on his mind. Idealistic, independently wealthy and pathologically short-tempered, Twilly has dedicated himself to saving Florida's wilderness from runaway destruction."--Author's website.
5) Skinny dip
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Skink novels (Carl Hiaasen) volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 18
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Chaz Perrone might be the only marine scientist in the world who doesn't know which way the Gulf Stream runs. He might also be the only one who went into biology just to make a killing, and now he's found a way-- doctoring water samples so that ruthless agribusiness tycoon can continue illegaly dumping fertilizer nto the endangred Everglades.
6) Star Island
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Series
Skink novels (Carl Hiaasen) volume 6
Pub. Date
2010
Description
"Meet twenty-two-year-old Cherry Pye, a pop star since she was fourteen - and about to attempt a comeback from her latest drug-and-alcohol disaster. Now meet Cherry's 'undercover stunt double', Ann DeLusia. Ann portrays Cherry whenever the singer is too wasted to go out in public. And it is Ann-mistaken-for-Cherry who is kidnapped from a South Beach hotel by obsessed paparazzi Bang Abbott. Cherry's handlers want to rescue Ann while keeping her existence...
