Current Reading: Squeeze Me

I am currently enjoying  Carl Hiaasen's newest novel, Squeeze Me. The book is, I suppose, a comic murder mystery. I would say that the comic is more important than the detective elements of the book. The Times summarizes the book as follows:

[Hiaasen's] latest novel, “Squeeze Me,” pairs an author who knows every grift, con and critter in the Sunshine State with some of its finest specimens. He has taken note that Palm Beach now houses a reality TV star who is also a president, along with his country club and his wealthy loyalists, one of whom is promptly swallowed by a Burmese python as an amuse-bouche for readers. Look at yourself. If you are wearing a MAGA anything, you won’t like this book.

But if you could use some wild escapism right now, Hiaasen is your guy. In its themes and its wild imagination, “Squeeze Me” offers some familiar pleasures, akin to a Greatest Hits collection. Anyone who’s read him will know what a prime recommendation that is. The edible socialite may be new, but reptiles like the python have long slithered through Hiaasen’s vision of Florida as a refuge for the worst of humankind. This book full of superrich bigots may have his highest count of nice fauna and awful people.

I especially appreciated that the book features a band that plays for the POTUS called the Collusionists and that there is a group of POTUS superfans who put together a musical number called, "You Big, Unimpeachable You!"