The Way Of All Fish: A Novel (2014) - Plot & Excerpts
Watch your back Hiaasen! Why? Well, Martha Grimes has taken a brief trip to Florida and in has caressed the Everglades in her wonderful style of humor. If you're reading this and think, oh it's a Florida book, you'd be wrong, and it was cruel of me to mislead you. This wonderful book is about the zany justice two contract killers enact against an inscrutable agent. I can't without spoiling it tell you why they do it. Or how they drag characters from her previous work "Foul Matter" into it. But I am going to say this was so much fun to read that I had to have the book taken out of my hands (between chapter 47 and 48) because my laughter was keeping everybody awake. Who sleeps at 2AM?This is a sequel, but since it had been a while since I read "Foul Matter" it took me awhile until the plot of that book seeped into my consciousness. It wasn't forgettable, I just read a lot and fast. Martha writes the "Richard Jury Series," which I loved enough to crawl in between and under the West Palm Beach Library stacks to find the book that was missing but was supposed to be there.She is a lady and a humorist. She is a writer and a story teller. And she has my esteem. This book is a departure for Martha Grimes, best known for her Richard Jury novels--this one is the second in a series about two hit men. In this one, they terrorize a small bit publisher who is trying to get money out of a successful author that he does not deserve--so instead of puting a hit on him, they try to spook him in a serious way. Funny and well written, although it is not exactly my cup of tea when it comes to murder mysteries.
What do You think about The Way Of All Fish: A Novel (2014)?
Pretty light for Martha Grimes. Kind of like Martha Grimes meets Elmore Leonard.A fun read.
—melody
Didn't finish this book; seemed a waste of time. I'm very tired of foul language.
—reza
I was in the mood for some kooky, mindless fun and found it in this book.
—Rac
