Recommend me books similar to those of Carl Hiassen and Janet Evanovich?

Also, there's Tim Dorsey's series, set in Florida (they're amusing): Florida Roadkill - Hammerhead Ranch Motel - Orange Crush - Triggerfish twist - The Stingray Shuffle - Cadillac Beach - Torpedo Juice - The Big Bamboo (again, it's a series and the books are listed in order).

Enjoyable, but a little more "heady" (not much, but a step above the mass-market paperbacks) are the Inspector Montalbano series [I love these!]) by Andrea Camilleri - The Shape of Water - The Terra-Cotta Dog - The Snack Thief - Voice of the Violin - Excursion to Tindari - The Smell of the Night - Rounding the Mark (again, in order).

Then there's the two "Bangkok" books by John Burdett: Bangkok 8 - Bangkok Tattoo. These are quite entertaining.

Hope this helps!

Or the Erast Fandorin series by Boris Akunin (though they're being translated out of order!) - The Winter Queen - Murder on the Leviathan - Turkish Gambit - Death of Achilles (it's a fun series but, on second thought, it might be better to wait until more are translated and published, 'cause I recall being frustrated by not having the backstory on several of the characters and references to critical incidents that I didn't know squat about).

I loved Colin Cotterill's series set in Laos - The Coroner's Lunch - Thirty-Three Teeth (the two in paperback so far).

If your father's at all out-dorsey, you can't go wrong with anything by Patrick F. McManus. Off the top of my head: The Grasshopper Trap - Never Sniff a Gift Fish - They Shoot Canoe's, Don't They? - Real Ponies Don't go Oink! - A Fine and Pleasant Misery - The Night the Bear Ate Goombaw - Rubber Legs and White Tail-Hairs - etc. (These are marvelously funny, I swear!)

Anyway, I have most of the above-listed books here in the apartment and if you ever want to borrow any, just let me know - I'd be glad to know that they're being read.