Joe R. Lansdale
Author
Publisher
BookVoice Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
The end of the 1980s. Drive-in movie culture is mostly dead with one significant exception: THE ORBIT DRIVE-IN. A drive-in theater so large it houses multiple stories-high screens that fill the sky, and can hold four thousand cars and all the people who can squeeze in them. It’s a lit city that fills to the brim on Friday nights, crowds gather for the Dusk-to-Dawn Horror Shows. Horns honk, BBQ grills sizzle, people yell and act the fool, ready for...
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Hap Collins and Leonard Pine are best friends, yet they couldn't be more different. Hap is an east Texas white-boy with a weakness for Texas women. Leonard is a gay, black Vietnam vet. Together, they steer up more commotion than a fire storm. But that's just the way they like it. So when an ex-flame of Hap's returns promising a huge score. Hap lets Leonard in on the scam, and that's when things get interesting. Chockfull of action and laughs, Savage...
Author
Series
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
A mother learns that her daughter has been forced into prostitution by a gang of neo-Nazis in Oklahoma. The mother asks her boyfriend, Hap Collins, to rescue her and he raises an armed posse composed of oddball characters. By the author of Bad Chili.
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Leonard is still nursing the injuries he sustained in the duo's last wild undertaking when he learns that his Uncle Chester has passed. Hap is of course going to be there for his best friend, and when the two are cleaning up Uncle Chester's dilapidated house, they uncover a dark little secret beneath the house's rotting floor boards-a small skeleton buried in a trunk. Hap wants to call the police. Leonard, being a black man in east Texas, persuades...
7) Dead aim
Author
Series
Publisher
Subterranean Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Roughneck detectives Hap Collins and Leonard Pine take on an apparently straightforward assignment -- discourage a man from harassing his estranged wife -- that is, until the husband is murdered and more bodies turn up.
Author
Series
Publisher
Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Hap and Leonard are an unlikely pair-Hap, a self-proclaimed white trash rebel, and Leonard, a tough-as-nails black gay Vietnam vet and Republican-but they're the closest friend either of them has in the world. Hap is celebrating his wedding to his longtime girlfriend, Brett (who is also Hap and Leonard's boss), when their backyard barbecue is interrupted by a couple of Pentecostal white supremacists. They're not too happy to see Leonard, and no one...
9) Rusty puppy
Author
Series
Publisher
Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Mismatched private detectives Hap and Leonard investigate the murder of a young black man who was conducting his own civilian investigation into the white cop who was stalking his sister.
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Full of savage humor, heart-stopping suspense, and a cast of characters so tough they could chew the bumper off a pickup truck, The Two Bear Mambo is classic country noir. In this rollicking, rollercoaster ride of a novel, Hap Collins and Leonard Pine take a break from their day jobs to search for Florida Grange, Leonard?s drop-dead gorgeous lawyer and Hap?s former lover, who has vanished in the Klan-infested East Texas town of Grovetown. Before she...
Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
"Daniel Russell was only thirteen years old when his father tried to kill them both by driving their car into Moon Lake. Miraculously surviving the crash and growing into adulthood, Daniel returns to the site of this traumatic incident in the hopes of recovering his father's car and bones. As he attempts to finally put to rest the memories that have plagued him for years, he discovers something even more shocking among the wreckage that has ties to...
12) The thicket
Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books, Little Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"Jack Parker knows all too well how treacherous turn-of-the-century East Texas can be. His parents did not survive a smallpox epidemic. His grandfather was murdered. Now his sister Lula has been kidnapped by a criminal who may believe wearing a dead man's clothes protects him from death. With bounty hunter Shorty, a charismatic and cunning dwarf, and Eustace, a gravedigging son of an ex-slave, the heartbroken young Jack sets off on an epic quest to...
14) Hyenas
Author
Series
Hap Collins and Leonard Pine novels volume 9
Publisher
Subterranean Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Roughneck buddies Hap Collins and Leonard Pine befriend a hapless fellow whose younger, weaker brother has fallen in with extremely bad company--he's just joined a gang of bank robbers whose leader is used to increasing his own share of the loot by killing the other gang members. Also includes "The Boy Who Became Invisible," a story Hap tells about something he witnessed years before.
16) Bubba Ho-tep
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
When mysterious deaths plague the Shady Rest retirement home, it's up to an aging, cantankerous Elvis, and a decrepit and black JFK, to defeat a 3,000-year-old-Egyptian mummy with a penchant for sucking human souls.
17) Cold in July
Publisher
IFC Films
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this action-packed pulp thriller starring Michael C. Hall, Sam Shepard and Don Johnson, a violent break-in triggers a journey deep into the bloody heart of Texas.
18) Collectibles
Publisher
Lawrence Block Production
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"What leads one person to collect stamps and another coins, one fine art and another butterflies? Who can say? But one thing is certain: no one covets like a collector; and a truly dedicted collector will ignore the other nine commandments, too, in his quest for his personal Holy Grail. From Joyce Carol Oates' tale of the ultimate Marilyn Monroe collectible to Dennis Lehand's bookseller with a penchant for other people's tragic correspondence, from...
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