Beach Slapped — Barton Grover Howe

Florida isn't the only place with nuts coming out of the trees... Tropical wannabe and suburban refugee Jackson Poe is having a very strange week. It begins with a sexually frustrated sea lion and ends with the spirit of Steve McQueen dispensing karmic justice on the coastal streets of Surfland, Oregon. In between, a nudist mascot, a pissed off young woman and a lottery ticket gone horribly right team up to make the streets safe for little old ladies. A thriller in the finest South Florida tradition, Howe presents a hilarious rain of weirdness on America's wettest edge. “The best beach book of the year and maybe the best comedic thriller of the year.” -- Sheldon McArthur, North by Northwest Books “Barton is just like Dave Barry...on the Oregon Coast.” -- The News Guard