About the Author

Tim Dorsey was a reporter and editor for the Tampa Tribune from 1987 to 1999, and is the author of twenty-five other novels: Mermaid Confidential, Tropic of Stupid, Naked 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.

Reviews

"Fans of the lovable Serge will enjoy his latest zany Florida adventures in Dorsey's 25th series installment." - Library Journal on Mermaid Confidential
"Dorsey's latest in the humorous crime fiction category highlights that outrageous brand of Florida humor. With chaos always at his side, Serge A. Storms is back, and this time, he's on a cemetery tour across the state, investigating an urban myth that just might be real and causing mayhem along the way." - Parade on Naked Came the Florida Man
"Can it still be hurricane season? Must be, because here come Serge A. Storms and his perpetually stoned bro, Coleman, in Tim Dorsey's gonzo crime caper Naked Came the Florida Man." - New York Times Book Review
"Upping the ante has always been the strategy for Tim Dorsey's books, which are built on a peculiarly Floridian brand of outrageousness. So it's no surprise that in his latest, Naked Came the Florida Man, Dorsey reaches a new high in that respect." - Newsday
"With what is his best title yet, best-selling Tampa author Tim Dorsey returns with his 24th adventure...a 'fan'-tastic, worthy addition to the pantheon." - Florida Times-Union on Tropic of Stupid
"All Dorsey mayhem is vintage Dorsey mayhem, but Florida's retirement scene provides the perfect backdrop for this latest round of lunacy." - Kirkus Reviews on No Sunscreen for the Dead
"Dorsey's novels are unfailingly entertaining... Serge is, hands down, the most smoothly charming, irrepressibly goofy, joyfully out-of-his-mind series lead in contemporary mystery fiction.... Don't miss this one." - Booklist on No Sunscreen for the Dead
"Delightfully madcap...The suspenseful, seemingly unconnected subplots imaginatively intertwine as Dorsey brings everything to a suitably vicious and explosive finale. This fiendishly funny adventure is irresistible." - Publishers Weekly on Mermaid Confidential
"Dorsey has used his novels to showcase Florida, to embrace its eccentricities, its residents' bizarre behavior and its unusual history. Dorsey shows he loves Florida in each novel...Dorsey ladles each novel with wide swaths of humor that is more guttural yet still funny. Like [Carl] Hiaasen, Dorsey's humor is grounded in reality...Mermaid Confidential is more Keys-centric as he adds trivia and history that is 'so nectar-of-Florida.'" - South Florida Sun-Sentinel
"A wacky celebration of violence, depravity and the weirdness of Florida. Think the Three Stooges meets Ted Bundy . . . sure to appeal to readers who think that Carl Hiaasen's slapstick noir novels are too darned subtle." - Associated Press on Tropic of Stupid
"Bestseller Dorsey breezes through his 24th comic novel . . . mixing the slapstick humor of the Three Stooges with Sunshine State details that would make a Florida history professor envious." - Publishers Weekly on Tropic of Stupid
"This hugely entertaining series . . . [has] been one delightful adventure after another. Storms is a wonderful character, a man with a can-do attitude and, well, a unique sense of retribution. You can't help liking the guy: he is, by all objective standards, a dangerously insane psychopath, but to Serge, it's the rest of the world that's crazy, while he's merely a misunderstood crusader for law and order. A new Dorsey novel is always a cause for celebration among readers who like their heroes more than a little bent." - Booklist on Tropic of Stupid