Mucho Mojo (Hap Collins and Leonard Pine, #2)
Hap and Leonard return in this incredible, mad-dash thriller, loaded with crack addicts, a serial killer, and a body count.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...
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Hap and Leonard return in this incredible, mad-dash thriller, loaded with crack addicts, a serial killer, and a body count.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 him this is not a good idea, and together they set out to clear Chester's name on their own. The only things standing in their way is a houseful of felons, a vicious killer, and possibly themselves.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780307455390 (0307455394)
Publish date: January 2009
Publisher: Vintage
Pages no: 308
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Humor,
Funny,
American,
Mystery,
Thriller,
Mystery Thriller,
Crime,
Noir,
Americana,
Horror
Series: Hap and Leonard (#2)
Published 1994. "I kept thinking I ought to wish Florida and Hanson well and be happy for them. That was the right thing to do, but I kept hoping she would miscalculate and get her period on her wedding night." This is a very specific kind of read for readers with a very specific taste. There ar...
While the first great book in this series, Savage Season, focuses a lot on Hap Collins's backstory, this second installment focuses a bit more on Leonard's past and the town that he grew up in. Hap owes Leonard after getting him involved in the violent events of the first book so he agrees to accomp...
When Leonard's Uncle Chester dies and leaves him a house, Hap and Leonard move in in order to fix it up and find a child's skeleton wrapped in a porno mag. Was Uncle Chester a child predator or was someone else the killer? And does it have anything to do with the crackhouse next door?2014 RereadHere...
A marvelous mixture of texas gothic and a satire of regional tropes, religion and filled with a generous helping of sexual repression and lust and sex among other things.Hap and Leonard's world is very different from my own. Landsdale writes so damn well that you get swept into this world and nothin...
A marvelous mixture of texas gothic and a satire of regional tropes, religion and filled with a generous helping of sexual repression and lust and sex among other things.Hap and Leonard's world is very different from my own. Landsdale writes so damn well that you get swept into this world and nothin...