From hurricanes that have folks shoot guns into them, to blind mosquitoes that “swarm in biblical numbers” and make people “keep [their mouths] closed unless [they] want extra protein,” Florida has a lot to offer that isn’t apparent from a glance at a map. Leave it to Tim Dorsey to shed light on the Sunshine State’s bounties and its seekers in his mystery novel Naked Came the Florida Man.

Spanning tourist spots like Cocoa Beach and low-key locales such as Pahokee, where small-town pride and “the fabric of the community [come] together like a Kevlar vest,” Naked Came the Florida Man follows Serge A. Storms, a Floridaphilic vagrant with a screw loose and chip on his shoulder about a modern society made “too fast-paced and jaded” to appreciate the simpler things in life. And the simpler things in life are what Serge treats himself to via a statewide…