The acclaimed author of "Florida Roadkill" delivers his fifth delightful novel, in which a cast of weird and dubious characters unite on a manic chase from the Sunshine State to the Big Apple and back again.

The acclaimed author of "Florida Roadkill" delivers his fifth delightful novel, in which a cast of weird and dubious characters unite on a manic chase from the Sunshine State to the Big Apple and back again.

When serial-killing local Florida historian Serge A. Storms is off his meds, no one is safe -- not Russian hoods, Jamaican mobsters, spoiled frat boys, women's book clubs, drug dealers, bad Vegas-rejected local lounge acts -- especially when $5 million in cash in a bugged suitcase is still racing up and down the Eastern Seaboard. But in the oddball circus known as the Sunshine State, little things like astronomical body counts tend to get lost in the shuffle.