A riotous retirement for Serge Storms [with] a wickedly clever yet weirdly inspiring plot.” — Tampa Bay Times
“Dorsey’s superior 22nd crime novel [is] another successful blend of the funny and the fiendish.” — Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“All Dorsey mayhem is vintage Dorsey mayhem, but Florida’s retirement scene provides the perfect backdrop for this latest round of lunacy. ” — Kirkus Reviews
“Dorsey’s novels are unfailingly entertaining... Serge is, hands down, the most smoothly charming, irrepressibly goofy, joyfully out-of-his-mind series lead in contemporary mystery fiction.... Don’t miss this one.” — Booklist
“A rollicking road trip we’d love to sign up for. ” — New York Times Book Review on No Sunscreen for the Dead
“[Serge and Coleman’s] wildest and funniest ride yet, resulting in plenty of sex, drugs, violence, and lottery winnings.” — PopMatters.com on The Pope of Palm Beach
“Dorsey’s satiric skewering spares nothing and no one in this riotous farce that’s almost too much fun to call reading.” — Providence Journal on The Pope of Palm Beach
“…fans of wacky crime fiction will have plenty of fun.” — Publishers Weekly on Pope of Palm Beach
“Breathtaking and very cleverly written.... The narrative rocks and the story rolls.” — Criminal Element on Clownfish Blues
“No part of Florida is left alone as Serge enjoys the ride while spouting off bits of obscure, but interesting, history.” — Southflorida.com on Clownfish Blues
“Hilarious. ... Serge Storms is, hands down, one of the most original and just-plain-captivating characters in modern crime fiction.” — Booklist (starred review) on Clowfish Blues
“A violent, funny, hyperkinetic novel...where the bizarre is downright commonplace.” — Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Electric Barracuda
Dorsey’s satiric skewering spares nothing and no one in this riotous farce that’s almost too much fun to call reading.
Providence Journal on The Pope of Palm Beach
Hilarious. ... Serge Storms is, hands down, one of the most original and just-plain-captivating characters in modern crime fiction.
Booklist (starred review) on Clowfish Blues
A violent, funny, hyperkinetic novel...where the bizarre is downright commonplace.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Electric Barracuda
A rollicking road trip we’d love to sign up for.
New York Times Book Review on No Sunscreen for the Dead
A riotous retirement for Serge Storms [with] a wickedly clever yet weirdly inspiring plot.
No part of Florida is left alone as Serge enjoys the ride while spouting off bits of obscure, but interesting, history.
Southflorida.com on Clownfish Blues
Dorsey’s novels are unfailingly entertaining... Serge is, hands down, the most smoothly charming, irrepressibly goofy, joyfully out-of-his-mind series lead in contemporary mystery fiction.... Don’t miss this one.
Booklist on No Sunscreen for the Dead
A riotous retirement for Serge Storms [with] a wickedly clever yet weirdly inspiring plot.
Tampa Bay Times on No Sunscreen for the Dead
No part of Florida is left alone as Serge enjoys the ride while spouting off bits of obscure, but interesting, history.
Southflorida.com on Clownfish Blues
Breathtaking and very cleverly written.... The narrative rocks and the story rolls.
Criminal Element on Clownfish Blues
[Serge and Coleman’s] wildest and funniest ride yet, resulting in plenty of sex, drugs, violence, and lottery winnings.
PopMatters.com on The Pope of Palm Beach
The thing is, Serge A. Storms is nuts; nonetheless, that doesn't stop Tim Dorsey's psycho hero from doing great deeds.
The New York Times Book Review - Marilyn Stasio
★ 11/26/2018The Pope of Palm Beach ) takes Serge and his stoner pal, Coleman, to an area of Florida that Serge has dubbed the Retirement Coast, where they encounter several locals who have been ripped off by unscrupulous salesmen. Serge takes it upon himself to get the victims their money back, while satisfying his own bloodlust by disposing of the con men with creative Rube Goldbergian devices. Meanwhile, Benmont Pinch, an employee of Life-Armor, a security company that both protects and invades privacy through its collection and use of personal data, is troubled by a disturbing pattern in a client’s request for a list of “adjoining Social Security entries with the same birthday” for people who are not twins. That pattern may connect with a series of murders of retirees, and whatever it is that panics high-ups at FBI headquarters in a cryptic prologue. Dorsey ties the two plot lines together logically, offering another successful blend of the funny and the fiendish. Agent: Nat Sobel, Sobel Weber. (Jan.)
Dorsey’s novels are unfailingly entertaining... Serge is, hands down, the most smoothly charming, irrepressibly goofy, joyfully out-of-his-mind series lead in contemporary mystery fiction.... Don’t miss this one.
A riotous retirement for Serge Storms [with] a wickedly clever yet weirdly inspiring plot.
A rollicking road trip we’d love to sign up for.
New York Times Book Review on No Sunscreen for the Dead
Dorsey’s novels are unfailingly entertaining... Serge is, hands down, the most smoothly charming, irrepressibly goofy, joyfully out-of-his-mind series lead in contemporary mystery fiction.... Don’t miss this one.
Breathtaking and very cleverly written.... The narrative rocks and the story rolls.
Criminal Element on Clownfish Blues
Dorsey’s novels are unfailingly entertaining... Serge is, hands down, the most smoothly charming, irrepressibly goofy, joyfully out-of-his-mind series lead in contemporary mystery fiction.... Don’t miss this one.
Dorsey’s satiric skewering spares nothing and no one in this riotous farce that’s almost too much fun to call reading.
Providence Journal on The Pope of Palm Beach
[Serge and Coleman’s] wildest and funniest ride yet, resulting in plenty of sex, drugs, violence, and lottery winnings.
PopMatters.com on The Pope of Palm Beach
Hilarious. ... Serge Storms is, hands down, one of the most original and just-plain-captivating characters in modern crime fiction.
Booklist (starred review) on Clowfish Blues
A violent, funny, hyperkinetic novel...where the bizarre is downright commonplace.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Electric Barracuda
08/01/2018
2018-10-28
Florida's biggest—and craziest—fan discovers the Sunshine State's greatest natural resource: old folks.
A life well-lived deserves a happy ending. And if that ending starts midlife, so much the better, figures Serge A. Storms (The Pope of Palm Beach , 2018, etc.). So he packs his sidekick, Coleman, who, let's face it, is too stoned to put up much of a fight, into his banana yellow Ford Falcon and heads for the Villages, that sprawling retirement complex northwest of Orlando, which, Serge claims, has "the highest STD rate in all of Florida." From there, it's on to Sarasota, cultural mecca for Florida's retirees, followed by Pinecraft Park, where the Amish go to spend their golden years, until finally Serge and Coleman discover Boca Shores, a manufactured-homes community for the 55-plus crowd. Eureka! Pretty soon, Serge is spending his retirement doing pretty much what he did for a living: running tours of Florida's little-known historical gems and finding increasingly complicated ways to kill those who prey upon the innocent. Since crooked businessmen just love selling massive humidifiers and industrial-sized kitchen fittings to seniors in trailer parks, Boca Shores offers an ample supply of preyed-upon innocents. But with a little coaxing, those same seniors also love to party like it's 1969—which, to be fair, is when they came of age. It looks as if retirement may turn into a steady diet of senior-style sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll for Serge and Coleman, until a suspicious string of geriatric murder-suicides catches the attention of the FBI.
All Dorsey mayhem is vintage Dorsey mayhem, but Florida's retirement scene provides the perfect backdrop for this latest round of lunacy.
