Hiaasen’s sharp wit, social commentary keep ‘Razor Girl’ on edge – southflorida.com

‘Razor Girl’ By Carl Hiaasen. Knopf, 333 pages, $27.95,It’s hard not to smile, if not laugh out loud, when reading Carl Hiaasen’s comic novels set in Florida. Hiaasen brings to his 14th comic mystery, “Razor Girl,” the same sharp humor doubling as social commentary that made him a best-selling author.

And as usual, it is not just the eccentric characters who are skewered but also the state of Florida, which seems to attract them.

No matter how bizarre or over the top “Razor Girl” seems, it’s rooted in actual events and people. As they say, you can’t make this stuff up. Or, in Hiaasen’s case, you can make it up but why bother.