Read Series: Hap And Leonard
by Author Joe R. Lansdale
Bad Chili (1997)
Fresh from a stint on an offshore oil rig Hap arrives home in LaBorde, Texas, to find his best friend Leonard brooding over the break-up with his lover, Raul. Things get worse when Raul's new lover is found murdered and Leonard is the prime suspect. Hap sets out to clear his friends name, but the...
Rumble Tumble (1999)
Hap and Leonard, the not-so-young-as-they-used-to-be, downwardly mobile protagonists of Lansdale's ongoing series, this time out have to leave their East Texas stomping grounds to rescue the daughter of Hap's serious girl friend, Brett. Brett was Hap's nurse after he was bitten by a rabid squirre...
Captains Outrageous (2003)
"Machos und Macheten" ist ein sehr amüsantes Portrait über zwei Männer die auf den ersten Blick sehr unterschiedlich sind aber sich bei genauerem hinsehen so perfekt ergänzen wie die sprichwörtliche Faust aufs Auge. Im Mittelpunkt des Romans stehen zwei Anti-Helden die sich nicht im geringsten um...
The Two-Bear Mambo (1997)
This is the best of Lansdale's Hap and Leonard novels I have read, and the first I read out of sequence. (It's the third in the series and the fourth or fifth I have read.) Reading it clears up some details of the Hap and Leonard relationship that has always bothered me in the other novels. They ...
Savage Season (2015)
I really loved The Thicket last year when I chose it to quench my thirst for a good Western read. I was impressed by how engaging the writing was. I decided this year to jump into more books by author Joe Lansdale, and I thought a good start would be his popular Texas crime series featuring his c...
Devil Red (2010)
The two main characters were the real deal, larger than life, and the banter between them really set the mood of the story Even if you have never read any of the Hap and Leonard detective series, you cannot help being absorbed into these 2 hard core detectives world of murder and mayhem. The b...
Diable Rouge (2010)
Hap and Leonard are part of an investigation of a couple murdered a couple of years before. The mother of the man is not satisfied of the police conclusion of a robbery gone bad while the couple were jogging. Both had been shot in the back of the head. A devil, painted with red blood, was on a ne...
Sotto un cielo cremisi (2009)
A good, almost great entry in the Hap and Leonard series by the great Mr. Lansdale. This one was fantastic until about page 190. It seemed like it was reaching a logical conclusion, the situations and characters were great and semi-believable and then there is kind of a weak 50 page or so clima...