Tim Dorsey

Tim Dorsey

Tim Dorsey was a reporter and editor for the Tampa Tribune from 1987 to 1999, and is the author of twenty-four novels: Tropic of StupidNaked Came the Florida Man, No Sunscreen for the Dead, Pope of Palm Beach, Clownfish Blues, Coconut Cowboy, Shark Skin Suite, Tiger Shrimp Tango, The Riptide Ultra-Glide, When Elves Attack, Pineapple Grenade, Electric Barracuda, Gator A-Go-Go, Nuclear Jellyfish, Atomic Lobster, Hurricane Punch, The Big Bamboo, Torpedo Juice, Cadillac Beach, The Stingray Shuffle, Triggerfish Twist, Orange Crush, Hammerhead Ranch Motel, and Florida Roadkill. He lives in Florida.

All Books By Tim Dorsey

Atomic Lobster
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Atomic Lobster
  • By: Tim Dorsey
  • Narrator: Oliver Wyman
  • Length: 10 hours 23 minutes
  • Publisher: HarperAudio
  • Publish date: January 22, 2008
  • Language: English
  • (3033 ratings)
(3033 ratings)
Why is everyone rushing to flee Tampa on a cruise ship to hell? Serge is back with a bullet, torn between homicide and souvenirs. So is Coleman, torn between getting hammered and getting more hammered. Then there’s good ol’ Jim... Read more
Cadillac Beach
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Cadillac Beach
  • By: Tim Dorsey
  • Narrator: Tim Dorsey
  • Length: 10 hours 39 minutes
  • Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
  • Publish date: January 16, 2008
  • Language: English
  • (3279 ratings)
(3279 ratings)
Serge A. Storms is back! The one-man crime spree hits no speed bumps as he swings through Tampa, Disney World, and parts south before settling down in Miami Beach to team up with a former sidekick and launch his long-overdue offbeat travel service.... Read more
Clownfish Blues
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Clownfish Blues
  • By: Tim Dorsey
  • Narrator: Oliver Wyman
  • Length: 9 hours 22 minutes
  • Publisher: HarperAudio
  • Publish date: January 24, 2017
  • Language: English
  • (984 ratings)
(984 ratings)
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, Tim Dorsey. If you’re loud and proud Floridian Serge A. Storms, how do you follow up your very own... Read more
Coconut Cowboy
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Coconut Cowboy
  • By: Tim Dorsey
  • Narrator: Oliver Wyman
  • Length: 9 hours 15 minutes
  • Publisher: HarperAudio
  • Publish date: January 26, 2016
  • Language: English
  • (1435 ratings)
(1435 ratings)
Channeling his inner Easy Rider, Serge Storms saddles up for his most epic, lethal, and hilarious road trip ever as he revvs off to find the lost American Dream . . . starting in the Florida Panhandle. Obsessed with the iconic Sixties classic Easy... Read more
Electric Barracuda
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Electric Barracuda
  • By: Tim Dorsey
  • Narrator: Oliver Wyman
  • Length: 11 hours 2 minutes
  • Publisher: HarperAudio
  • Publish date: January 25, 2011
  • Language: English
  • (2027 ratings)
(2027 ratings)
“Dorsey differs from writers such as Carl Hiassen, James Hall, and Elmore Leonard…These guys fire bullets. Dorsey makes sure his gun is filled with hollow-point.”—Sarasota Herald Tribune Readers who can’t get enough of... Read more
Florida Roadkill
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Florida Roadkill
  • By: Tim Dorsey
  • Narrator: Tim Dorsey
  • Length: 10 hours 23 minutes
  • Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
  • Publish date: May 06, 2011
  • Language: English
  • (7566 ratings)
(7566 ratings)
Sunshine State trivia buff Serge A. Storms loves eliminating jerks and pests. His drug-addled partner Coleman loves cartoons. Hot stripper Sharon Rhodes loves cocaine, especially when purchased with rich dead men’s money. On the other hand,... Read more
Gator A-Go-Go
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Gator A-Go-Go
  • By: Tim Dorsey
  • Narrator: Oliver Wyman
  • Length: 10 hours 42 minutes
  • Publisher: HarperAudio
  • Publish date: January 26, 2010
  • Language: English
  • (2377 ratings)
(2377 ratings)
That’s right: Serge and Coleman do spring break! It’s been a long time coming, but they’re at the party now–and you’ll never look at a Frisbee the same way again. One spring break location obviously isn’t enough... Read more
Hammerhead Ranch Motel
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Hammerhead Ranch Motel
  • By: Tim Dorsey
  • Narrator: Tim Dorsey
  • Length: 10 hours 13 minutes
  • Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
  • Publish date: May 27, 2011
  • Language: English
  • (4459 ratings)
(4459 ratings)
There’s a different schemer or slimeball behind every door: cocaine duckpins who have survived only by the dumbest fortune, hard-luck gigolos desperate to score, undercover cops busting undercover cops who are running sting operations on... Read more
Hurricane Punch
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Hurricane Punch
  • By: Tim Dorsey
  • Narrator: Oliver Wyman
  • Length: 10 hours 27 minutes
  • Publisher: HarperAudio
  • Publish date: January 23, 2007
  • Language: English
  • (3497 ratings)
(3497 ratings)
Welcome to another typical summer in Florida, the season of the storms. Serge Storms. That loveable, under-under-medicated dispenser of truth, justice, and trivia is back with a vengeance. And not a weirdness-laced moment too soon. His cherished... Read more
Mermaid Confidential
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Mermaid Confidential
  • By: Tim Dorsey
  • Narrator: Oliver Wyman
  • Length: 11 hours 3 minutes
  • Publisher: HarperAudio
  • Publish date: January 25, 2022
  • Language: English
  • (659 ratings)
(659 ratings)
Serge A. Storms gives condo living a try in this latest acid-splashed Florida crime caper from the “insanely funny” (New York Times Book Review) Tim Dorsey. Serge A. Storms and his permanently baked sidekick, Coleman, have decided to... Read more
Naked Came the Florida Man
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Naked Came the Florida Man
  • By: Tim Dorsey
  • Narrator: Oliver Wyman
  • Length: 10 hours 14 minutes
  • Publisher: HarperAudio
  • Publish date: January 07, 2020
  • Language: English
  • (1307 ratings)
(1307 ratings)
The “compulsively irreverent and shockingly funny” (Boston Globe) Tim Dorsey returns with an insanely entertaining tale in which the inimitable Serge A. Storms sees dead people and investigates a creepy urban myth that may be all too... Read more
No Sunscreen for the Dead
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No Sunscreen for the Dead
  • By: Tim Dorsey
  • Narrator: Oliver Wyman
  • Length: 9 hours 44 minutes
  • Publisher: HarperAudio
  • Publish date: January 15, 2019
  • Language: English
  • (561 ratings)
(561 ratings)
The Sunshine State’s most lovable psychopath, Serge A. Storms, kills it in this zany adventure from the “compulsively irreverent and shockingly funny” (Boston Globe) king of mayhem, New York Times bestselling author Tim... Read more
Nuclear Jellyfish
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Nuclear Jellyfish
  • By: Tim Dorsey
  • Narrator: Oliver Wyman
  • Length: 9 hours 25 minutes
  • Publisher: HarperAudio
  • Publish date: January 27, 2009
  • Language: English
  • (3134 ratings)
(3134 ratings)
“Dorsey’s brilliantly, profanely funny 11th novel…zips along like P.G. Wodehouse’s best work.” —Richmond Times-Dispatch Tim Dorsey’s outrageously zany, gleefully violent, and uproariously funny Nuclear... Read more
Orange Crush
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Orange Crush
  • By: Tim Dorsey
  • Narrator: Tim Dorsey
  • Length: 11 hours 4 minutes
  • Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
  • Publish date: May 27, 2011
  • Language: English
  • (3739 ratings)
(3739 ratings)
Praising Tim Dorsey’s tongue-in-cheek humor, the Miami Herald wrote, “Nobody, but nobody, writes like this guy.” Here Florida politics take the main stage in a rollicking satire that proves Dorsey’s at the top of his game.... Read more
Pineapple Grenade
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Pineapple Grenade
  • By: Tim Dorsey
  • Narrator: Oliver Wyman
  • Length: 11 hours 3 minutes
  • Publisher: HarperAudio
  • Publish date: January 24, 2012
  • Language: English
  • (1851 ratings)
(1851 ratings)
“The undisputed king of the comic crime novel.”—Providence Journal “I guarantee Dorsey will never win the Nobel Prize for Literature–he’s far too funny.”—Richmond Times-Dispatch “If you’ve... Read more
Shark Skin Suite
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Shark Skin Suite
  • By: Tim Dorsey
  • Narrator: Oliver Wyman
  • Length: 9 hours 34 minutes
  • Publisher: HarperAudio
  • Publish date: January 27, 2015
  • Language: English
  • (1309 ratings)
(1309 ratings)
Bottom feeders beware: the Sunshine State’s favorite psychotic killer and lovable Floridaphile Serge Storms has found a new calling, legal eagle, and he’s going to make a killing as a crusading attorney–and star as a dashing lawyer... Read more
The Big Bamboo
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The Big Bamboo
  • By: Tim Dorsey
  • Narrator: Tim Dorsey
  • Length: 10 hours 34 minutes
  • Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
  • Publish date: May 23, 2008
  • Language: English
  • (2508 ratings)
(2508 ratings)
Tim Dorsey is the internationally best-selling author of the gleefully over-the-top series starring spree-killer Serge Storms. In The Big Bamboo, Serge and sidekick Coleman head out west to take on Hollywood bigwigs and L.A. lowlifes in... Read more
The Maltese Iguana
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The Maltese Iguana
  • By: Tim Dorsey
  • Narrator: Oliver Wyman
  • Length: 9 hours 50 minutes
  • Publisher: HarperAudio
  • Publish date: February 28, 2023
  • Language: English
  • (460 ratings)
(460 ratings)
Serge A. Storms is back on the road in the latest zany Florida caper from the “wickedly funny” (Entertainment Weekly) Tim Dorsey. After a long and arduous COVID-19 quarantine, Serge A. Storms is fully vaccinated and ready to hit the road. Along... Read more
The Pope of Palm Beach
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The Pope of Palm Beach
  • By: Tim Dorsey
  • Narrator: Oliver Wyman
  • Length: 9 hours 45 minutes
  • Publisher: HarperAudio
  • Publish date: January 30, 2018
  • Language: English
  • (1289 ratings)
(1289 ratings)
From Florida’s king of mayhem–“compulsively irreverent and shockingly funny” (Boston Globe) New York Times bestselling author Tim Dorsey–comes a diabolically madcap adventure featuring the indomitable Serge A.... Read more
The Riptide Ultra-Glide
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The Riptide Ultra-Glide
  • By: Tim Dorsey
  • Narrator: Oliver Wyman
  • Length: 9 hours 20 minutes
  • Publisher: HarperAudio
  • Publish date: January 22, 2013
  • Language: English
  • (1516 ratings)
(1516 ratings)
Lovable serial killer Serge Storms is back and coming to the rescue of a Midwestern couple who aren’t finding Florida quite as charming as he does in Riptide Ultra-Guide, the sixteenth installment in Tim Dorsey’s bestselling series. When... Read more
The Stingray Shuffle
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The Stingray Shuffle
  • By: Tim Dorsey
  • Narrator: Tim Dorsey
  • Length: 11 hours 15 minutes
  • Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
  • Publish date: July 29, 2011
  • Language: English
  • (4083 ratings)
(4083 ratings)
Tim Dorsey continues to collect accolades from critics and fans for his wildly funny, madcap novels featuring serial killer and Florida historian Serge Storms. In The Stingray Shuffle, Serge is off his meds, and that means no one is safe, including... Read more
Tiger Shrimp Tango
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Tiger Shrimp Tango
  • By: Tim Dorsey
  • Narrator: Oliver Wyman
  • Length: 9 hours 42 minutes
  • Publisher: HarperAudio
  • Publish date: January 28, 2014
  • Language: English
  • (1463 ratings)
(1463 ratings)
Determined to save a damsel in distress, the Sunshine State’s favorite serial killer and encyclopedia of Florida lore Serge Storms dances a tango of death and mayhem in this funny and dementedly entertaining crime caper from Tim Dorsey, author... Read more
Torpedo Juice
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Torpedo Juice
  • By: Tim Dorsey
  • Narrator: Tim Dorsey
  • Length: 10 hours 41 minutes
  • Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
  • Publish date: March 11, 2008
  • Language: English
  • (3016 ratings)
(3016 ratings)
Internationally best-selling author Tim Dorsey’s irreverent novels starring evil genius Serge A. Storms-lovable psychiatric hospital escapee-zoom along at breakneck speed, delivering laughs and shocks in droves. In Torpedo Juice Serge heads... Read more
Triggerfish Twist
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Triggerfish Twist
  • By: Tim Dorsey
  • Narrator: Tim Dorsey
  • Length: 11 hours 20 minutes
  • Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
  • Publish date: August 12, 2011
  • Language: English
  • (4399 ratings)
(4399 ratings)
Ensconced in a lovely tropical villa on idyllic Triggerfish Lane, Jim Davenport anticipates the good life to come. But this isn’t living-it’s Florida-and the neighborhood is not quite what it seems. It’s got overly aggressive... Read more
Tropic of Stupid
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Tropic of Stupid
  • By: Tim Dorsey
  • Narrator: Oliver Wyman
  • Length: 10 hours 9 minutes
  • Publisher: HarperAudio
  • Publish date: January 26, 2021
  • Language: English
  • (907 ratings)
(907 ratings)
Serge A. Storms embarks on a tour to meet his long-lost relatives in this latest madcap entry in the bestselling series from “Florida’s compulsively irreverent and shockingly funny” (Boston Globe) Tim Dorsey. Devoted Floridaphile... Read more
When Elves Attack
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When Elves Attack
  • By: Tim Dorsey
  • Narrator: Oliver Wyman
  • Length: 5 hours 2 minutes
  • Publisher: HarperAudio
  • Publish date: October 25, 2011
  • Language: English
  • (2180 ratings)
(2180 ratings)
“The undisputed king of the comic crime novel.”—Providence Journal Nobody does Florida weirdness quite like Tim Dorsey! Case in point: When Elves Attack, the New York Times bestselling author’s twisted Christmas present to... Read more

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