A Cold Night for Allligators by Nick Crowe

Jasper is looking for his brother, Coleman (don’t even get me started on where their names come from!) who has been missing for 10 years. Jasper’s life is a mess, he can’t move on until he at least tries to find Coleman who is somewhere in the Florida Everglades. This story is filled with alligators, poachers, yahoos and rock and rollers – funny, inventive, suspenseful and ultimately plausibly satisfying. I loved Jasper and all the weird folks he meets as he tries to make sense of what happened to Coleman …