Shark Skin Suite audiobook

OK, I'm hooked on the series. Whenever one is published I manage to track down Tim Dorsey and grab a signed copy. (He must be the hardest working author in the business - check his website, he is everywhere. I mean New Hampshire bookstores in February! It helps that he is an interesting and nice guy.) Back to the book, the protagonist is Serge Storms your friendly serial killer and dispenser of justice in unique ways to those who would harm Florida and Floridians. His side kick, drug addled Coleman is along for additional comic relief as Serge covers the state dispensing historical trivia as he goes. This one focuses on the mortgage and foreclosure issues the state experienced and those who brought it about. With a wind-up in Key West during Fantasy Fest you know it is going to get crazy. If you have never experienced Fantasy Fest, that part alone is worth the price of admission. Book gets a bit nuts at times, issues stretch like a rubber band then snap back in true Keystone Kops fashion. Quite entertaining. Keep up the good work Tim!

“Shark Skin Suite” by Tim Dorsey, published by William Morrow.Category – Mystery/Comedy Publication Date – 2015Here we go again with Serge and Coleman. I honestly love this writer and his characters. I now have all but two of his books and can’t wait to get another one in my hands.For those of you who don’t know Serge A. Storms he is a serial killer but seems to kill just the bad guys. His sidekick is Coleman who is always high of either alcohol or drugs, they make a great pair. In “Shark Skin Suite” people are being foreclosed on with mortgages they should have never been approved for, and some people who own their homes are being evicted. All this comes from greedy mortgage lenders.Serge and Coleman get caught up in this while being pursued by Serge’s wife, while Serge is having an affair, and the three old biddies, Edna, Eunice, and Ethel.This hilarious episode ends in Key West during Fantasy fest with Serge’s girlfriend winning a monumental case against the mortgage lenders. Although trying to cement her relationship with Serge she and he must contend with Molly, Serge’s wife.Although, obviously I am not reading these books in order it does not lessen the stories or their impact, just another great read from Tim Dorsey.

Tim Dorsey's "Shark Suite" defies simple description as a suspense novel or conventional mystery. His style and voice are uniquely amusing but engaging. The story that follows a crazed path through Florida is a combination mystery novel / legal thriller but told with a oddly amusing sense of humor ... too much coffee, a bit of weed ,too much cold medicine ???? I laughed far more as I read "Shark Suite" than one would expect from any legal thriller ... a fun and unique story. It was so amusing that at times I realized I didn't care where the story was headed, I was just enjoying the trip.Read it , enjoy it and pass the yarn on to other as a good read.

I received this book in a giveaway. But after lending it to my mom (who thanked me for introducing her to a great new author), I subsequently purchased the Kindle edition, which is my reading preference. The giveaway book has been donated to the library so more can meet Tim Dorsey. And Mom, who volunteers at the small library, will try to acquire more Dorsey titles.Which is all to say that this is a fun read. Full of endearingly nutty characters, wacky situations, unapologetic violence, and heart.

It's interesting to go back and dip into the older Tim Dorsey novels. This one, from 2015, includes the magic moment when someone (a newspaper reporter named Reeves) introduces psychopath Florida-phile Serge Storms to the meme-worthy concept of "Florida man." Meanwhile, Serge and his perpetually stoned Sancho Panza, Coleman, decide to go python hunting because this book takes place during the state's first "python rodeo" and wind up with their hands full (and later use the python in one of Serge's little science experiments).The book gets off to a somewhat rocky start as Dorsey appears to be setting up more than one framing device for the story, first with the tale being told by one of the quartet of ribald elderly women who form what they call the "G-Unit" ("G" for grandma), and then the throwback private eye Mahoney, who sometimes uses Serge as an investigator, rambling on in his noir-movie lingo. Fortunately, Dorsey quickly abandons those distractions and takes us into the backstory of how Serge parted from his onetime love Brooke, who becomes an attorney. She winds up foreclosing on a bank that mistakenly foreclosed on her clients (a real Florida case, by the way) and thus lands a job at a big firm that's about to go head-to-head with a major mortgage company that's really shady -- to the point of hiring a hitman.Fear not, because Serge shows up just in time, having trained himself in the law by watching a lot of Florida movies involving the law -- "Cool Hand Luke," "Follow That Dream," "Body Heat" -- and also dressing himself and Coleman in jackets identifying them as Bail Bondsmen Fugitive Hunters. Then they stroll up on low-rent motels, showing off their jackets, just to see who runs.Although the mortgage company and its Ivy League lawyers (and ruthless fixer) are the real villains, Dorsey uses his sharpest barbs on the newspaper execs who employ Reeves and have decided, in their clueless way, that the way to increase reporter efficiency is to hold lots of mandatory staff meetings, and the way to get more out of a reduced staff is to have photographers write stories and reporters take photos. I laughed the hardest when they decided to eliminate corrections because they just take up space.

This is another absolutely cracking entertainment from Tim Dorsey. The Serge Storms books are always a pleasure and Shark Skin Suite is no exception – although it perhaps starts a little less alluringly than some.The book opens with Serge on the run from both the law and his ex-wife, which is quite amusing but not the carefree Serge we know and love. However, he’s soon back to racing around Florida spouting high-energy facts and history (much of which is genuinely very interesting), dealing with Coleman’s drug- and alcohol-fuelled antics and visiting satisfying revenge on scumbags of various sorts. The main focus this time is on the greed and careless arrogance of banks and large corporations and their lawyers, some of whom get a very pleasing come-uppance in the end.As always, this is funny, engrossing and with an underpinning of both erudition about Florida and a shrewd analysis of the behaviour of some financial institutions. I loved it and can recommend it very warmly.

The personification of the concept "Florida Man," Tim Dorsey's, serial killer with a conscience, Serge Storm, is back for his eighteenth run at all things that threaten his idolized Florida life...Most of the Serge Storm Universe, plus a few new characters are here in a battle against the state's big banking interests and corrupt attorneys who leveraged the Florida's mortgage and foreclosure crisis for their own personal gain...Not Dorsey's best, but still immensely entertaining!

Take some laughter, add a character who is part Rube Goldberg, part serial killer and part loyal friend, mix with a smattering of eccentric co-conspirators in nutty circumstances and you have your basic Tim Dorsey authored Serge Storms book. But don't confuse the word basic with boring, because Dorsey's books never are.

From now on I'll be rating all Tim Dorsey books at four stars. I rate most of them at four stars anyway, so this won't require too much brain strain. Coleman would agree.

This is one of the better written books of the series. Engaging start to finish. A quick read. As usual, lots of twists and turns and subplots, but everything gets wrapped up nicely. Serge and the whole cast continue to deliver their own special brand of Florida style justice. Highly Recommended.

Finished reading " Shark Skin Suite " by Tim Dorsey. As usual it was great. Mr. Dorsey has not written a bad story yet. Staring my favorite spree Killer Serge A. Storms. Creative, hysterical, and crazy all at once!Serge is at it again.This time he has decided that he wants to work on the side of the law. In fact he wants to be a lawyer! But since he didn't go to school for it he can't be one unless he gets arrested and defends himself. So he will do the next best thing and be a freelance fixer for a big law firm. There is nobody better at this kind of activity than Serge. He gets his assignment from his one-time nemesis and no ally Mahoney. Mahoney is a private investigator with a habit of narrating his own life and speaking using dialogue that belongs in old noir movies. Serge takes to helping a one time paramour named Brook who is a hot shot attorney with a knack for helping people who are being conned through foreclosure laws. Their rivals in court are using their own fixer to make Brook and her team lose the case but scammers and bank people are no match for Serge. There is murder by Burmese python, murder by buffalo, and murder by deviled egg! Serge is also being tracked by someone else. Someone with a gun who isn't afraid to use it on him. Someone he is married to!

After reading 22 of 24 Tim Dorsey Novels on Serge Storms, I found that this was one of the most satisfying reads of all. Not as much slapstick, but I really, really enjoyed his FL tale of Florida Man and had to google it for the major laughs of his Florida elegy. All of the great characters including a new one in Brook Campanella (attorney at large) as well as a very, very close friend of Colemans, Mahoney, the G Girls and the festival in the Florida Keys makes this amazingly complicated. Imagine if you will (twilight zone) Serge becoming a lawyer and all of the great trial sequences between big banks and the poor citizens who miss forclosure notices. Usual grusome creative tales in doing in grifters, fixers and the like, but especially fun in the encounters with Serge's wife Molly as all comes together for a fitting end to this tale. I am going to miss this series after finishing the last two of 24 books, but really enjoyed the tales of Fl., legal disputes, film noir detective descriptions, good serial killers, intelligent bantering, and also a random news reporter. Be sure to google "Florida Man" to discover what kind of Florida Tim Dorsey uncovers to develop his characters.

Who doesn't love a murdering psychopath? Well, one that only exacts wrath upon the worst of the worst. I live in Florida, and in light of the recent shootings near Miami, reading this book from 2015, Tim Dorsey nails it with a little Serge speech:You know what a fan of irony I am. … If you are arrested for possession [of pot which you had stashed in a gun magazine] you plea bargain and during your allocution you say, ‘I admit I was the one who removed all of the bullets from the assault rifle’s extended magazine and filled it with pot. But now I realize that was wrong because marijuana is dangerous.’ I love the legal incongruities our national discourse has spawned. I can buy a shotgun any time of day without a serious background check. But if I need something for sniffles, it’s 6 forms of ID and complete school transcripts. The government has essentially created a system where if I want to get rid of a head cold, the easiest cure is to blow my brains out.drop mike

Name or Weather Event?Tim Dorsey continues to knock 'em dead (literally) , with Shark Skin Suite. Serge Storms continues to be everybody's favorite psychotic serial killer, as he zigzags his way throughout the cities and countryside of Florida, always on a coffee high and spouting much minutiae about Florida. His in-depth Floridaphilian knowledge makes Final Jeopardy look like a game of tic tac toe.