Book Excerpt for the Day

    Whoever had murdered the president of the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce had gone to remarkable trouble to pack him into the red Samsonite.  Sparky was only five-foot-five, but he weighed nearly one hundred ninety pounds, most of it in the midriff.  To have squeezed him into a suitcase, even a deluxe-sized suitcase, was a feat that drew admiring comments from the coroner's seasoned staff.  One of the clerks used up two rolls of film documenting the extrication.


(from Tourist Season by Carl Hiaasen)

7½ */10.  The complete review is here.
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