Hap and Leonard Series by Joe R. Lansdale, Ken Laager

3.96 · 170 ratings
  • Savage Season (Hap and Leonard #1)
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    Savage Season (Hap and Leonard #1)

    Joe R. Lansdale

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings · published 1990

    The basis for the new TV series Hap and LeonardA rip-roaring, high-octane, Texas-sized thriller, featuring two friends, one vixen, a crew of washed-up radicals, loads of money, and bloody mayhem.Hap Collins and Leonard Pine are best friends, yet they couldn't be more different. Hap is an east Texas white-boy with a weakness for Texas women. Leonard is a gay, black Vietnam vet. Together, they steer up more commotion than a fire storm. But that's just the way they like it... more

  • Mucho Mojo (Hap and Leonard #2)
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    Mucho Mojo (Hap and Leonard #2)

    Joe R. Lansdale

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings · published 1994

    Inheriting one hundred thousand dollars and a small hiccup of a house in a dilapidated district is not so bad, and Uncle Chester made a nice gift of it to his nephew Leonard... though the clean-up is intensive, the floor is Rotten, and the neighbors are something from a nightmare. It is one thing to renovate a house to sell it. It is another to cut down the walls and risk discovering hidden skeletons...

  • The Two-Bear Mambo (Hap and Leonard #3)
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    The Two-Bear Mambo (Hap and Leonard #3)

    Joe R. Lansdale

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings · published 1995

    Florida Grange, Leonard's drop-dead gorgeous lawyer and Hap's former lover, has vanished in Klan-infested Grovetown while in pursuit of the real story behind the jailhouse death of a legendary bluesman's blackguard son. Fearing the worst, Hap and Leonard set out to do the kind of investigating the good ole boy cops can't - or won't - do. In Grovetown they encounter a redneck police chief, a sadistic Christmas tree grower, and townsfolk itchin' for a lynchin'... more

  • Bad Chili (Hap and Leonard #4)
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    Bad Chili (Hap and Leonard #4)

    Joe R. Lansdale

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings · published 1997

    With his trademark knack for gut-busting laughter and head-splitting action, Joe R. Lansdale serves up a bubbling cauldron of murder and mayhem that only he could create.Hap Collins has just returned home from a gig working on an off shore 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... more

  • Rumble Tumble (Hap and Leonard #5)
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    Rumble Tumble (Hap and Leonard #5)

    Joe R. Lansdale

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings · published 1998

    Hap Collins and Leonard Pine are in for an action-packed adventure when they cross paths with a towering Pentecostal preacher, a midget with a giant attitude, and a gang of bikers turned soldiers of fortune.Even though a midlife crisis just hit Hap Collins like a runaway pickup truck, he's still got his job, he knows his best friend, Leonard Pine, will always be there for him, and of course he's got his main squeeze, Brett Sawyer... more

  • Captains Outrageous (Hap and Leonard #6)
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    Captains Outrageous (Hap and Leonard #6)

    Joe R. Lansdale

    Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings · published 2001

    Hapless chicken-plant guard Hap Collins gets into trouble when he takes his best friend Leonard on a Caribbean cruise. The two find themselves abandoned in Mexico, saved from armed attackers by a geriatric fisherman and his lovely daughter, who's currently having to fend off a Mexican mobster who is also a practising nudist... Trying for once to stay out of other people's business, Hap returns to East Texas but is overwhelmed when he learns of the senorita's murder... more

  • Vanilla Ride (Hap and Leonard #7)
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    Vanilla Ride (Hap and Leonard #7)

    Joe R. Lansdale

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings · published 2009

    "There's no bullshit in a Joe Lansdale book. There's everything a good story needs, and nothing it doesn't. Joe pulls up the truck, says, 'Get in the back, we're going for a ride.'You know it might get a little scary and it might get a little crazy, but you get in, because you know in the end, it's going to be a fun ride... more

  • Hyenas (Hap and Leonard #8.5)
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    Hyenas (Hap and Leonard #8.5)

    Joe R. Lansdale

    Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings · published 2011

    Hyenas marks the always-welcome return of Joe R. Lansdale’s most indelible fictional creations: Hap Collins and Leonard Pine. Once again, the embattled but resilient duo find themselves enmeshed in a web of danger, duplicity, and escalating mayhem. The result is a tightly compressed novella that is at once harrowing, hilarious, and utterly impossible to put down.The story begins with a barroom brawl that is both brutal and oddly comic... more

  • Honky Tonk Samurai (Hap and Leonard #9)
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    Honky Tonk Samurai (Hap and Leonard #9)

    Joe R. Lansdale

    Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings · published 2015

    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... more

  • Hap and Leonard Ride Again (Hap and Leonard #9.6)
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    Hap and Leonard Ride Again (Hap and Leonard #9.6)

    Joe R. Lansdale

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 4 ratings · published 2016

    Soon to be a 2016 SundanceTV miniseries starring Michael K. Williams (The Wire), James Purefoy (Rome), and Christina Hendricks (Mad Men).Hap and Leonard don’t fit the profile. Hap Collins looks like a good ’ol boy, but his liberal politics don’t match. After a number of failed careers, Hap has discovered that what he’s best at: kicking ass. Vietnam veteran Leonard Pine is even more complicated: black, conservative, gay . . . and an occasional arsonist... more

  • Coco Butternut (Hap and Leonard #9.8)
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    Coco Butternut (Hap and Leonard #9.8)

    Joe R. Lansdale, Ken Laager

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings · published 2017

    Coco Butternut marks the always-welcome return of Joe R. Lansdale’s dysfunctional duo: Hap Collins and Leonard Pine. As usual, wherever Hap and Leonard go, trouble seems to already be there, awaiting their arrival. And in the case of this twisty, hilarious, and heartfelt new novella, Lansdale sends his heroes to Oak Rest mortuary and cemetery to grapple with the living and the dead—both canine and human... more

  • Rusty Puppy (Hap and Leonard #10)
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    Rusty Puppy (Hap and Leonard #10)

    Joe R. Lansdale

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings · published 2017

    Hap and Leonard investigate a racially motivated murder that threatens to tear apart their East Texas town.While Hap, a former 60s activist and self-proclaimed white trash rebel, is recovering from a life-threatening stab wound, Louise Elton comes into Hap and Leonard's PI office to tell him that the police have killed her son, Jamar.Months earlier, a bully cop pulled over and sexually harassed Jamar's sister, Charm... more

  • Blood and Lemonade (Hap and Leonard #11)
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    Blood and Lemonade (Hap and Leonard #11)

    Joe R. Lansdale

    Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings · published 2017

    Hap Collins is a complicated man. He looks like a good ‘ol boy, but his politics don’t match. After way too many jobs, Hap has discovered what he’s best at: kicking ass. Vietnam veteran Leonard Pine is even more complicated: black, Republican, gay—and an occasional arsonist. As childhood friends and business associates, Hap and Leonard have a gift for the worst kind of trouble: East Texan trouble.Joe R... more

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