Hap and Leonard: Blood & Lemonade – Joe R. Lansdale
A collection of Hap Collins’ younger days growing up in East Texas, and some of his earliest adventures with pal Leonard Pine.
Tag Archives: mystery
Coco Butternut – Joe R. Lansdale
Hap and Leonard are hired to exchange a sack full of money for a mummified dog corpse; things go wildly amiss from there as the job flops and the duo unearth age-old murders…
Resume Speed – Lawrence Block
“He got on the Trailways bus in Galbraith, North Dakota, booked all the way through to Spokane. But the Help Wanted sign at the diner in Cross Creek was calling his name.”
Even the Wicked – Ed McBain
Zach Blake and his daughter Penny return to Martha’s Vineyard, seeking the truth behind the “accidental” death of their wife/mother Mary.
Phantom Lady – Cornell Woolrich
Scott Henderson is on death row for a crime he didn’t commit. The one person whose testimony can clear him? A woman nobody, not even Henderson, remembers.
Death on the Riviera – John Bude
Inspector Meredith and Sergeant Strang investigate a counterfeiter and smuggling ring on the French Riviera, along with one mysterious murder of an Englishman…
Honky Tonk Samurai – Joe R. Lansdale
Hap and Leonard get the band back together, pulling in characters from Lansdale’s other novels to take down a band of inbred hitmen who work for a mysterious criminal enterprise.
Detour – Helen Nielsen
Kid hitchhiker Danny was making his big break for Mexico when the kindly old man giving him a lift is murdered. Danny sets out on the lam, trapped by circumstantial evidence.
Mystery in White – J. Jefferson Farjeon
A group of travelers seek shelter from a blizzard at a country home—they find the fire roaring, the tea boiling, but nobody home. A crime is afoot, and there’s a murderer in their midst…
The Z Murders – J. Jefferson Farjeon
Richard Temperley finds his erstwhile travel companion—a disagreeable fellow passenger—dead, with a mysterious woman and a crimson metal “Z” the only clues to the murderer…
Bunny Lake is Missing – Evelyn Piper
Blanche Lake’s daughter Bunny has gone missing from her daycare—and nobody, not even the police, believe that Bunny ever existed in the first place.
