I love Serge Storms & Co, and this is a wortyh addition to the series. The usual weird and wonderful combination of lunatic logic smacking up against recognisable reality. Recommended.

Tim Dorsey started off many years ago as a funny observer of Florida in a Carl Hiassen vein. For me, the entertainment value of his books has been on a long downward trajectory and this book is a prime example,
The plot takes forever to get started and the book is bogged down by the endless schoolhouse lectures by its protagonist Serge on various Florida topics
Carl Hiassen keeps getting better, sadly Tim Dorsey doesn’t. The book just wasn’t very entertaining

Thank you to Farrago and Netgalley for a free copy of No Sunscreen for the Dead for my honest review.

This is the first Tim Dorsey book I've read but it definitely will not be the last. At first, I wasn't sure what to make of this book. I was confused and it jumped around a lot. Then as each characters plot developed, it all cam together and I couldn't put it down.

It's a wild ride and a fun read. You never know what is going to happen next and Serge is a hilarious character. He's smart and cunning and knows exactly what to do at the exact right time. I also really enjoyed the other characters. The premise of this book being set in a Floridian retirement park cracked me up.

I highly recommend this book. It's funny but warnings of violence, murder, and language.

I'm a Serge fan but I didn't enjoy this as much as the last one I read. The plot is quite confusing and the end felt abrupt. The author also presents quite a romantic view of the Florida pensioners. Perhaps this is meant as a corrective to the stereotype of Fox News-addicted gas guzzlers stealing their grandchidren's future, but it went too far the other way.

Still, there are some fun Serge moments and the plot strand featuring data manipulation and abuse was interesting.
I'm a Serge fan but I didn't enjoy this as much as the last one I read. The plot is quite confusing and the end felt abrupt. The author also presents quite a romantic view of the Florida pensioners. Perhaps this is meant as a corrective to the stereotype of Fox News-addicted gas guzzlers stealing their grandchidren's future, but it went too far the other way.

Still, there are some fun Serge moments and the plot strand featuring data manipulation and abuse was interesting.

Dieses Buch, diese Serie, hat die Welt gebraucht! Einfach nur gute Unterhaltung zum laut lachen. Mitreißend gut geschrieben und vollkommen anders als erwartet.
Kann auch außer der Reihe gelesen und verstanden werden.

Serge is an endearing anti-hero who loves and respects older people. After meeting a lovely older couple in an Amish restaurant, they invite him home.

After hearing the stories of predatory salesmen preying on the elderly, Serge sets out to obtain restitution for them.

This is also the story of a middle-aged data analyst, who creates an algorithm revealing a.secret list. The very existence of this list makes the analyst the target of several alphabet soup agencies.

This title is a wildly entertaining romp through a Florida retirement community. It was my first Tim Dorsey read, but I plan to go back and read them all.

In the interest of full disclosure, I received a free digital copy of this title to review from Net Galley.

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Great addition to the series.
I really love the eccentric characters in this series, even the secondary characters. The story was well written and plot was interesting and fun.

Serge Storms is a cheerful, creative psychopath whose version of Robin Hood is cutting a swathe through the ranks of people who prey on people in South Florida retirement communities. At the same time, someone quite different is committing multiple murders among the retirees. When the two predators meet, the result is madcap and macabre.

Serge and his friends are intriguing and the action is very lively, but the book also brings up interesting ideas. What effect might the current focus on Russia in the news have on the lives of aging double agents from the Cold War? What kinds of connections could big data dredge up -- connections that would have seemed coincidental before the existence of big data? And what exactly are we all agreeing to in those online Terms of Service?

Tim Dorsey's books are always a gruesome romp, and this is no exception. It's well-written, thought-provoking, and fun to read.

Princess Fuzzypants here: If you like dark and rapier sharp humour, you will enjoy this author. I am not sure what it is about Florida that inspires this black and very funny writing style but whatever it is, I hope it continues. For those who have never met Serge before, he is so off the wall that he is brilliant albeit creatively violent. He also has a very high sense of morality and if you are on the right side of his beliefs, you are golden. If you are on the wrong side, there is no where to hide.
Serge decides that the elderly are his new soul mates. They have the right idea about life and he wants to absorb their wisdom first hand. He “adopts” an elderly couple in a restaurant. When he drives them home,, he learns they have been the victims of an extremely unscrupulous salesman. Serge decides it is time for said salesman to be brought to task in a manner only Serge could invent.
Before long, he is helping others in the retirement park where the elderly couple live and he becomes “the fixer”. It is all very wild and woolly and then he becomes involved in a decades old conspiracy that involves Russian spies and double and triple agents. That’s when the fun really begins. Suspend disbelief and buckle up for a crazy ride.
Five purrs and two paws up.

This is number 21 (or 22, depending on your source) Serge A. Storms adventure, but my first and last. I imagine by now his fans are used to his pontificating and spouting off random facts that are pretty well known and his vile murders. His straight man Coleman did nothing but swill beer and be stupid. I found it immensely irritating and offensive. I quit reading about the third chapter.

Serge Storms rides again with Coleman in tow, this time taking his special brand of revenge on behalf of the senior citizens from a retirement community. All the plot strands tie together satisfactorily leaving Serge & Coleman to ride off into the sunset before the police can ask too many questions.

This book is so different to a normal black and white world don’t bother just jump right in you won’t regret it. It’s the most zany funny suspending reality story you will fall into. Serge and Coleman are on a crusade to right the wrongs of the ripped off retired community but in an outrageous not black or white way. If you like your hero’s a bit grey then this story is for you. This is part of a series but you can read this as a stand alone. You will want to rush right out and follow further excerpts with Serge and Coleman.
I was given an ARC of this book by Netgalley and the publisher in exchange for an honest review.

Jumped right in the middle of the series but can't say it set me back that much as the story was accessible enough that I didn't feel much flew over my head. The lovely black twisted humour got a few chuckles out of me, and the downright bizarreness of Dorsey's writing would tempt me to pick up the first book in the series on the back of this one.

Liked it a lot.

With thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for the ARC. Have published review on Goodreads and Amazon..

Get ready for another wild ride with Serge and Coleman! Full of wackiness and hilarity. Many thanks to Farrago and to NetGalley for providing me with a galley in exchange for my honest opinion.

No Sunscreen for the Dead by Tim Dorsey Great addition to the insane, dark, fun filled adventures of Serge and Coleman. Number 22 in the Series which keeps getting better and better.

Thank you to the publisher, author, and NetGalley for the opportunity to preview the book.

Tim Dorsey sets this series in the madcap underbelly of Florida where everything is just crazy enough to possibly be true. In this installment, Serge finds himself the avenging angel of senior citizens, most of whom are military veterans, living in a trailer park falling prey to unethical salesmen. Serge's revenge tactics would be simply gruesome if they weren't so funny. I find myself a bit surprised at what I'm laughing at, but not enough to stop laughing. Throw in some Russian spies, a believable federal oversight in the witness protection program and angry swans, and you've got a hilarious final scene. As always with Dorsey's books, you'll laugh throughout the book, and in my case, well into the next day.
Thank you for Netgalley and Farrago books for the opportunity to read this in exchange for an honest review.

I loved No Sunscreen For The Dead. It is bonkers, extremely funny and actually rather an exciting story.

This is the 21st Serge Storms book. If you don’t know Serge, he’s not easy to explain. He lives in Florida and is a manic collector of trivia who has crazes, during which he discovers scumbags behaving despicably and dispatches them in ways which have an ingenious poetic justice and which are wholly deplorable and extremely entertaining. This time, Serge is manically pursuing an oral history project among residents of a retirement village. He and his hilariously drugged-up sidekick Coleman discover that unscrupulous salesmen are preying on the residents...with extremely amusing and satisfying results for the reader (who really ought to disapprove, but hell – they deserve it) but not for the scumbags. Alongside this is a rather intriguing espionage story which began in 1970 and which eventually impacts on the present day joyous mayhem of Serge’s activities.

It’s just a joy. I laughed out loud regularly, Tim Dorsey writes superbly, with especially brilliant dialogue, he constructs and paces his story extremely well and there’s a lot a lot of genuinely interesting and amusing detail about all sorts of aspects of Florida. I read the whole thing with complete delight and can recommend it very warmly.

(My thanks to Farrago for an ARC via NetGalley.)

It's the first book I read in this series and it was amazing.
I laughed out loud a lot but there's also food for thought.
The settings, the characters and the descriptions are wonderful as much as the humour that is a bit weird and really funny.
It made wish to move to Florida and to go and get the rest of the series.
Highly recommended!
Many thanks to Farrago and Netgalley for this ARC