No Sunscreen for the Dead is Tim Dorsey’s twenty-second book about Florida life. Once again, wild and wacky Serge Storms rides with his consistently stoned sidekick, Coleman, this time diving into an infamous sex scandal between a retiree and her younger beau in one of the largest retirement villages in the world. If you have never…
The Château by Paul Goldberg (acclaimed author of The Yid) takes us behind the scenes of a Florida condo board election, delivering a wild spin on Miami Beach, petty crime, Jewish identity, and life in Trump's America (available February 13, 2018). Take a visual tour through The Château with GIFnotes! It is January 2017 and…
GIFnotes: Giving you the basic plot summary of an upcoming book with the help of the Graphics Interchange Format. The Château by Paul Goldberg (acclaimed author of The Yid) takes us behind the scenes of a Florida condo board election, delivering a wild spin on Miami Beach, petty crime, Jewish identity, and life in Trump's America—take a visual…
Killing Pace by Douglas Schofield is a high-octane, heart-pounding tale set in Everglades City, Florida, and Sicily, Italy, with three important questions: Where am I? … How did I get here? … and most importantly … Who am I? Lisa Green has amnesia. Her “boyfriend” Roland, insists that he’s protecting her in the remote Florida Everglades cabin…
I’m sure every novelist has his or her personal formula for research. Recently, Criminal Element asked me to talk a little bit about mine. Not to sound too obvious, but in my book (yes, there’s that boring pun again) there are three branches of research required if you want to get things right. First comes…
In Clownfish Blues by Tim Dorsey, A (Serge A.) Storm is brewing for a cabal of bad guys gaming the Florida state lottery in this insanely funny novel from the maestro of mayhem (available January 24, 2017). The Florida State Lottery—like all lotteries—is a game of chance. Anyone can win; all you have to do…
After he left, I sat in the car and looked and my hands. There was blood there no one else could see. A lot of it was mine. I’d made sure Lane never suffered any of the things I had as a child. Or at least I had until I’d left. She’d been innocent. Maybe…
Down the Darkest Street by Alex Segura is the hard-boiled sequel to Silent City that tells a tale of redemption, survival, and the sordid backstreets of Miami (Available April 12, 2016). Pete Fernandez should be dead. His life — professional and personal — is in ruins. His best friend is dead. His newspaper career is…
Coconut Cowboy by Tim Dorsey is a hilarious road trip novel featuring Florida's favorite trigger-happy, shoot-from-the-hip vigilante history teacher, Serge A. Storms, as he and travel buddy Coleman set off to find the American Dream in the Florida panhandle (Available January 26, 2012). Obsessed with the iconic Sixties classic Easy Rider, encyclopedic Floridaphile, lovable serial…
Doak Miller logged twenty-plus years with the NYPD and enjoyed it. During that time, he was married to Doreen, which he didn’t enjoy as much, leading to the occasional extramarital tryst. Not that he went out of his way to be adulterous, but as the opportunity arose, he willingly took the plunge again…and again. Once…
