A lovable con woman and a disgraced detective team up to find a redneck reality TV star in this raucous and razor-sharp new novel from Carl Hiaasen, the bestselling author of Bad Monkey. Merry Mansfield, the eponymous Razor Girl, specializes in kidnapping for the mob. Her preferred method is rear-ending her targets and asking them for a ride. Her latest mark is Martin Trebeaux, owner of a private … Trebeaux, owner of a private beach renourishment company who has delivered substandard sand to a mob hotel. But there’s just one problem: Razor Girl hits the wrong guy. Instead, she ends up with Lane Coolman, talent manager for Buck Nance, the star of a reality TV show about a family of Cajun rooster farmers. Buck Nance, left to perform standup at a Key West bar without his handler, makes enough off-color jokes to incite a brawl, then flees for his life and vanishes.
Now a routine promotional appearance has become a missing persons case. And Andrew Yancy, disgraced detective-turned-health inspector, is on the job. That the Razor Girl may be the key to Yancy’s future will be as surprising to him as anything else he encounters along the way—including the giant Gambian pouched rats that are haunting his restaurant inspections.
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I’m guessing that Hiaasen isn’t an author everyone will love. His off-the-wall sense of humor attracts me, as well as his uniquely strange characters. Razor Girl, like his other books, is set in Florida and once again uses the “truth is stranger than fiction” concept to build the plot, basing the introductory scene and title character on a news story (http://abcnews.go.com/Travel/cops-woman-crashes-car-shaving-privates/story?id=10065885). Hiaasen writes for both the adult and the YA market, but this book is for adults.
Since Tourist Season, I’ve been nothing less than a CH junkie. One of the most original voices in all of literature. Having lived in Florida for a dozen years, Carl knows every funny bone from Tallahassee to Key West. I am a true fan, dyed in the seaweed.
Razor Girl was a wonderful Carl Hiaasen read. The Razor Girl is actually a kidnapper for the mob. Her M.O. is to rear end her target and then ask them for a ride. Unfortunately she ends up kidnapping the wrong guy and mistakenly grabs the manager for a reality TV star. Without his manager to keep him focused, reality star Buck Nance does a routine in a Key West bar that leads to a riot and he flees for his life. Disgraced detective Andrew Yancy is hired to find Buck Nance and the Razor Girl becomes the only lead Yancy has.
I really enjoy the crazy antics that Hiaason’s characters get up too. Always a fun ride seeing how things are going to end up.
Love his author. But this is perhaps not as tightly written as his other Florida series.
Fast moving easy read. Hiassen is witty and a good story teller.
A quick and delicious read. Hiaasen’s characters are well rounded and often unpredictable, like his plots. It includes a heroine like no other I have read and translates the feeling of the Keys to perfection
One of Hiaasen’s best
Really enjoy this author
Typical (and wonderful) Hiaasen. He pulls you in with the most unbelievable characters and weaves a great satirical read.
Freaking hilarious, just like all of Carl’s reads.
Typically funny Hiaasen. He takes the preposterous and makes it seem real. Always a light, engaging read.
This is another twisted, just slightly over the top, Carl Hiaasen story .
One of his best
Another winner by this author. I especially like that he bases his stories in Florida.
I never miss a Carl Hiaasen novel and this is one of the best.
I love reading Carl hiaasen’s books. I have read a few of them. I like his setting of Key West and the characters are great. He adds quite a bit of humor. He had me laughing so hard in one of the chapters I had tears in my eyes.
Call Hissan is outstanding. His books are hilarious with great characters. On par with Tim Dorsey.
Another wacky look at south Florida through Carl Hiassens eyes.
This has written several books and just about all of them were funny and very good reads