Crime Fiction/978-0-307-45538-3
MUCHO MOJO
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 floorboards—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 are a houseful of felons, a vicious killer, and possibly themselves.
Crime Fiction/978-0-307-45539-0
THE TWO-BEAR MAMBO
In this rollicking, roller-coaster 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 disappeared, Florida was digging up some dirt behind the mysterious jailhouse death of a legendary bluesman’s son, who was in possession of some priceless merchandise. To Hap and Leonard, something don’t smell right. With murder on their minds, Hap and Leonard set out to investigate as only they know how . . . chaotically.
Crime Fiction/978-0-307-45549-9
BAD CHILI
Hap Collins has just returned home from a gig working on an offshore oil rig. With a new perspective on life, Hap wants to change the way he’s living, and shoot the straight and narrow. That is until the man who stole Leonard Pine’s boyfriend turns up headless in a ditch and Leonard gets fingered for the murder. Hap vows to clear Leonard’s name, but things only get more complicated when Leonard’s ex shows up dead. To the police it is just a matter of gay-biker infighting, but to Hap and Leonard murder is always serious business, and these hit a little to close to home.
Crime Fiction/978-0-307-45550-5
RUMBLE TUMBLE
Even though a midlife crisis just hit Hap Collins like a runaway pickup truck, he’s still got his job as a bouncer at a local club, he knows his best friend, Leonard Pine, will always be there for him, and of course he’s got his main squeeze, ex–Sweet Potato Queen Brett Sawyer. Things go downhill, however, when Brett’s daughter, Tillie, who has been walking on the wrong side of the law—doing drugs and turning tricks—suddenly stands in need of a rescue. It won’t be easy— it never is—but nothing is going to stop Hap and Leonard as they hit the road destined for Hootie Hoot, Oklahoma, to shake things up. And with Hap and Leonard at the wheel, this promises to be a wild ride.
Crime Fiction/978-0-307-45551-2
CAPTAINS OUTRAGEOUS
When Hap Collins saves the life of his employer’s daughter, he is rewarded with a Caribbean cruise, and he convinces his best friend Leonard Pine to come along. However, when the cruise sails on without them, stranding them in Playa del Carmen with nothing but their misfortune and Leonard’s ridiculous new hat, the two quickly find themselves drawn into a vicious web of sordid violence. When they return to East Texas, they find that trouble has beaten them back, and when trouble’s around it doesn’t take long for Hap and Leonard to find it.
Crime Fiction/978-0-307-45552-9
VINTAGE CRIME/BLACK LIZARD
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The first Hap and Leonard novel in eight years.
Hap Collins and Leonard Pine—best friends, freelance vigilantes, complete opposites—return in this Texas-sized thriller to take on the Dixie Mafia, and to keep themselves out of jail.
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