Joe R. Lansdale
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Formats
Description
Only Hap and Leonard would catch a cold case with hot cars, hot women, and ugly skinheads. The story starts simply enough when Hap, a former 60s activist and self-proclaimed white trash rebel, and Leonard, a tough black, gay Vietnam vet and Republican with an addiction to Dr. Pepper, are working a freelance surveillance job in East Texas. The uneventful stakeout is coming to an end when the pair witness a man abusing his dog. Leonard takes matters...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
287 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
"After a scandalous affair costs him his job in Houston, Cason Statler--Gulf War veteran and Pulitzer Prize-nominated journalist--returns home to the small east Texas town of Camp Rapture. Cason is a wreck. He drinks too much, he's stalking his ex-girlfriend, and he's wallowing in envy of his successful older brother. To get back on his feet, he takes a job at the local paper, and when he stumbles across his predecessor's notes on a cold case murder...
4) Paradise sky
Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[2015].
Physical Desc
400 pages ; 25 cm
Description
"Young Willie is on the run, having fled his small Texas farm when an infamous local landowner murdered his father. A man named Loving takes him in and trains him in the fine arts of shooting, riding, reading, and gardening. When Loving dies, Willie re-christens himself Nat Love in tribute to his mentor, and heads west. In Deadwood, South Dakota Territory, Nat becomes a Buffalo Soldier and is befriended by Wild Bill Hickok. After winning a famous...
5) Devil red
Author
Series
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
205 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
"Hap Collins and Leonard Pine return in a red-hot, mayhem-fueled thriller to face a vampire cult, the Dixie Mafia, and the deadliest assassin they've ever encountered--Devil Red. When their friend Marvin asks Hap and Leonard to look into a cold-case double murder, they're more than happy to play private investigators: they like trouble, and they especially like getting paid to find it. It turns out that both of the victims were set to inherit serious...
6) Vanilla Ride
Author
Series
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
243 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
In this Texas-sized thriller, Hap Collins and Leonard Pine--best friends, freelance troublemakers, and tough guys with good intentions--find themselves in the crosshairs of the Dixie Mafia and the lethal Vanilla Ride after an old friend asks Leonard to rescue his daughter from an abusive, no-good drug dealer.
7) Dead aim
Author
Series
Hap Collins and Leonard Pine novels volume 10
Publisher
Subterranean Press
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
102 p. ; 22 cm.
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
Publisher
Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
337 pages ; 25 cm
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...
10) The thicket
Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
340 pages ; 25 cm
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...
11) Hap and Leonard
Author
Series
Formats
Description
The iconic Texan crime-fighting, bigot-bashing duo meet in this companion to the breakout Hap and Leonard TV series.
As a liberal young man in East Texas, Hap Collins is discovering his passion for two-fisted justice in a redneck world. Leonard Pine-black, gay, and the ultimate outsider-is already fighting his own battles against racists and bullies. So when Hap sees Leonard demolishing an angry mob with his fists (and taunts), it's immediately clear...
15) Cold in July
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
[2014]
Formats
Description
When Richard shoots dead a burglar in his home, the burlgar's father seeks revenge.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (74 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Escondida en lo alto de una montaña secreta se encuentra la fortaleza de La Liga de las Sombras y su impávido lider, Ra's al Ghul, quien junto a su igualmente peligrosa hija, Talia, supervisa a un ejército altamente entrenado de asesinos con un solo plan: la dominación global. Ahora con su hijo a cuestas, Batman comienza una guerra en contra del villano Deathstroke y La Liga de las Sombras, a la vez que enseña a su obstinado hijo que uno no puede...
18) Dangerous women
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
784 pages ; 25 cm
Description
A collection of twenty-one short stories celebrates dangerous women, both heroines and villains, and includes a new Outlander tale by Diana Gabaldon, a George R. R. Martin novella set in the world of "A Game of Thrones," and a Harry Dresden contribution by Jim Butcher.
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
viii, 348 pages ; 24 cm
Description
Throughout the annals of fiction, there have been many celebrated detective teams: Sherlock Holmes and John Watson. Nick and Nora Charles. Hercule Poirot and Arthur Hastings. Thomas and Charlotte Pitt. The latter were the creation of beloved mystery writer Anne Perry, the editor of Odd Partners. With this collection, Perry has enlisted some of today's best mystery writers to craft all-new stories about unlikely couples who join forces--sometimes unwillingly--to...
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
c2021.
Physical Desc
394 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"t's been said that all great literature boils down to one of two stories-a man takes a journey, or a stranger comes to town. While mystery writers have been successfully using both approaches for generations, there's something undeniably alluring in the nature of a stranger: the uninvited guest, the unacquainted neighbor, the fish out of water. No matter how or where they appear, strangers are walking mysteries, complete unknowns in once-familiar...