Natural Woman

Nature Girl by Carl Hiaasen is the screwball tale of a character named Honey Santana who goes off her meds and wreaks havoc in the lives of petty evil-doers, including a bad-mannered telemarketer, whom she kidnaps, and her former, smelly employer, whom she whacks with a stone-crab-claw-cracking mallet.

One of the many best lines: “Mr. Piejack was the owner of the fish market, and he’d been sniffing after Honey for months. He was married and had numerous other unsavory qualities.”

Which, of course, is why she had to hit him.