by Tim Dorsey
First published 2012
Jim Davenport settles into his tropical villa on Triggerfish Lane, ready to embrace Florida's promised good life. The neighborhood seems perfect at first glance. Then Jim discovers what lurks beneath the surface. Aggressive Little League parents terrorize the baseball fields. Drug-free Rastafarians patrol the streets. Homicidal hookers conduct their deadly business. Unnatural sex and casual violence punctuate daily life. Across the street lives Serge A. Storms, a psychopathic serial killer who doubles as a Sunshine State folklorist. Jim realizes his idyllic neighborhood masks a carnival of chaos and murder. The pressure mounts as danger closes in from all sides. Jim faces a terrible choice that will transform him from innocent newcomer to something far darker. This prequel to Florida Roadkill introduces the wild cast of characters who made Dorsey's debut novel a cult sensation.
Genres: mystery, crime, thriller, action, dark
Vibes: dark, fast-paced, suspenseful
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, fish-out-of-water
Setting: Triggerfish Lane, Florida
Period: 21st-century
100 pages · Kindle Edition · William Morrow
Content warnings: graphic-violence, murder