Deadly Sweet

This one started off a bit slowly. The pace picked up, but it is a deliberate pace throughout.The jacket had comparisons to Carl Hiaasen, but I did not really see that. Hiaasen's recent works have been peopled by characters that have become cartoonish and parodies. The characters in "Deadly Sweet" are far more plausable.The main players are believeable and the plot makes sense. The comic element that Hiaasen brings is not present here, and to me that was a major plus.It never becomes a fast read or a "page turner" in the strict sense. It progresses at a logical pace and the loose ends are tied up. The protagonists are easy to cheer for and it's easy to feel their losses along the way.I enjoyed it. However, I felt the Hiaasen comparisons were off base, but that was a positive. Maybe reviewers think any novel set in Florida is Hiaasenesque.