by Pete Hautman
Carl Hiaasen (Striptease) owns the underbelly of the Florida crime scene; now he has a Minnesota soulmate. The Minneapolis-based Hautman establishes himself as the spokesman for the local criminal wackos in this rollicking tale of a robbery gone berserk. Septuagenarian Axel Speeter keeps $260,000 in Folger's coffee cans—earnings from his taco stand—in the Motel 6 room he calls home. His best taco wrapper, Carmen Roman, and her sometime boyfriend, a bald psychopath named James Dean, are trying to steal Axel's stash. But the vinegary 73-year-old, once a world-class poker player, knows all the angles. Nuts is a crime-lover's treat. (Simon & Schuster, $21)
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