by Tim Dorsey
Part of Serge Storms, book 9
First published 2007
Another summer arrives in Florida, bringing hurricanes and bodies. Serge, the trivia-obsessed vigilante with a passion for justice and insufficient medication, discovers a serial killer terrorizing his beloved state. The mounting corpses offend his moral code, so he launches his own investigation to set things right. But Agent Mahoney, fresh from a mental hospital after getting too deep inside Serge's psyche, believes no second killer exists. The profiler thinks Serge's personality is fracturing after decades of manic enthusiasm. Meanwhile, Coleman's athletic dedication to substance abuse threatens to sabotage the entire mission worse than all the police combined. As winds build and reporters swarm the beaches, questions multiply. Someone stalks Tampa Bay's most delicate journalist. Molly might crush Serge's guitar dreams. The feeding-tube controversy simmers. Storm trackers debate whether orgasms improve meteorological accuracy. Through the chaos, one question dominates: what would Serge do?
Genres: adventure, mystery, crime, contemporary, thriller, action
Vibes: fast-paced, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, unreliable-narrator
Setting: Florida, Tampa Bay
Period: Summer
384 pages · Hardcover · William Morrow
Content warnings: violence