Skink Series Books in Order

Skink Series by Carl Hiaasen follows Clinton "Skink" Tyree — a former Florida governor who abandoned office, sanity, and conventional society to live as a hermit in the Florida wilderness, subsisting on roadkill and dispensing rough justice to those who despoil the state he once led. Skink appears across Hiaasen's novels as a recurring figure, sometimes protagonist and sometimes catalyst, always dangerous and frequently hilarious.

Hiaasen is one of American fiction's great comic novelists — his Florida crime comedies are simultaneously the funniest and the angriest books in the genre, driven by genuine outrage at environmental destruction, political corruption, and the steady despoliation of a state of remarkable natural beauty by developers, con artists, and incompetents. Skink embodies that outrage in its most concentrated form.

The Skink novels — both the adult fiction that features him prominently and the YA novels where he takes center stage — demonstrate Hiaasen's range. The character is most himself as a force of nature appearing to disrupt the plans of villains who have failed to understand what Florida actually is.

Begin with Double Whammy for Skink's introduction in the adult novels, or Hoot for Hiaasen's excellent YA fiction. For fans of Florida noir, comic crime fiction, and readers who share Hiaasen's deep love for the natural world, Skink is one of fiction's most original creations.