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Best Selling Books by Joe R. Lansdale

Joe R. Lansdale is the author of Fender Lizards (2015), Conan and the Songs of the Dead (2007), Hap and Leonard (2017), Leather Maiden (2008), Rumble Tumble (1998).

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Fender Lizards

release date: Nov 30, 2015
Fender Lizards
Dot waitresses on roller skates at the Dairy Bob, doesn''t care for smoking at least partly on account of her dad having never returned from a cigarette run, and carries on the family tradition of philosophizing. Life hasn''t done her any favors in her seventeen years so far. But if there was ever a heroine built for turning things upside down and seeing what shakes out, it''s Dot. Determined to find out who she is and why she''s the way she is, an opportunity presents itself when her heretofore-unknown uncle suddenly moves his camper into the front yard.

Conan and the Songs of the Dead

release date: Jan 01, 2007
Conan and the Songs of the Dead
"In the harsh deserts of Stygia, a sorcerer grasps for the immortal power that lies beneath the shifting sands. In his way stand Conan and his unlikely allies: Alvazar, a rogue interested in little more than wine, women and more wine; and Ohala, daughter of a mystical order of warrior women sworn to retrieve a very dangerous book" -- Page [4] of cover.

Hap and Leonard

release date: Jan 01, 2017
Hap and Leonard
Companion volume to the second season of the Hap and Leonard television series.

Leather Maiden

release date: Aug 05, 2008
Leather Maiden
Abrash amalgam of terrifying suspense, raw humor, and intriguing mystery that unfolds in the vividly rendered shadowy lowlands of East Texas. After a harrowing stint in the Iraq war, Cason Statler returns home to the small East Texas town of Camp Rapture, where he drinks too much, stalks his ex-wife, and takes a job at the local paper, only to uncover notes on a cold case murder. With nothing left to live for and his own brother connected to the victim, he makes it his mission to solve the crime. Soon he is drawn into a murderous web of blackmail and deceit. To makematters worse, his deranged buddy Booger comes to town to lend a helping hand.

Rumble Tumble

release date: Jan 01, 1998
Rumble Tumble
Leonard and Hap, the oddest crime fighting couple in fiction, take a road trip and all hell is let loose...

The Nightrunners

release date: Oct 01, 2013
The Nightrunners
In the field of country noir--the dark side of rural and small-town America--Lansdale staked his claim to East Texas with The Nightrunners. A ''66 Chevy bears down on the countryside, with a carful of vicious teenagers and evil of Biblical proportions, in this terrifying morality tale of sex and violence. Here''s what Publishers Weekly just said in its starred review: "Lansdale''s The Nightrunners (1987)...set new standards for the depiction of graphic violence and is probably the best novel of its type between Psycho and The Silence of the Lambs ... This upsetting look at the human capacity for evil breaks with crime novel conventions when a supernatural element enters the story in the form of the grotesque deity known as the God of All Things Sharp...The Nightrunners retains its ability to awe and to horrify."

Miracles Ain't What They Used to Be

release date: Jul 01, 2016
Miracles Ain't What They Used to Be
Arguably (and who doesn’t like to argue?) the world’s bestselling cult author, Joe R. Lansdale is celebrated across several continents for his dark humor, his grimly gleeful horror, and his outlaw politics. Welcome to Texas. With hits like Bubba Ho-Tep and The Drive-In the Lansdale secret was always endangered, and the spectacular new Hap and Leonard Sundance TV series is busily blowing whatever cover Joe had left. Backwoods noir some call it; others call it redneck surrealism. Joe’s signature style is on display here in all its grit, grime, and glory, beginning with two (maybe three) previously unpublished Hap and Leonard tales revealing the roots of their unlikely partnership. Plus… A hatful and a half of Joe’s notorious Texas Observer pieces that helped catapult him from obscurity into controversy; and “Miracles Ain’t What They Used to Be,” Lansdale’s passionately personal take on the eternal tussles between God and Man, Texas and America, racism and reason—and religion and common sense. And Featuring: Our Outspoken Interview, in which piney woods dialect, Bible thumpery, martial arts, crime classics and Hollywood protocols are finally awarded the attention they deserve. Or don’t.

Zeppelins West

release date: Jan 01, 2001
Zeppelins West
"Legends of the Old West, plus characters both real and fictional, enliven the shenanigans, commencing with Buffalo Bill Cody, a head in a jar atop a mechanical body, escorting his Wild West Show by zeppelin to Japan."--Amazon.com.

Hyenas

release date: Jan 01, 2011
Hyenas
Best friends and freelance troublemakers Hap Collins and Leonard Pine find themselves dealing with abduction, betrayal, robbery, and murder as they attempt to help someone whose brother has joined a gang of bank robbers.

Terror Is Our Business

release date: Jan 01, 2018
Terror Is Our Business
Award-winning author Joe R. Lansdale and daughter Kasey Lansdale join forces to bring you a short story collection showcasing the new dynamic duo of supernatural sleuthing, Dana Roberts and her sidekick Jana. With two tough, resourceful women on the case, the ghosts and specters from "the other side" won''t know what hit them!

Moon Lake

release date: Jun 22, 2021
Moon Lake
From an Edgar award-winning author comes the gripping and unexpected tale of a lost town and the dark secrets that lie beneath the glittering waters of an East Texas lake. Daniel Russell was only thirteen years old when his father tried to kill them both by driving their car into Moon Lake. Miraculously surviving the crash—and growing into adulthood—Daniel returns to the site of this traumatic incident in the hopes of recovering his father''s car and bones. As he attempts to finally put to rest the memories that have plagued him for years, he discovers something even more shocking among the wreckage that has ties to a twisted web of dark deeds, old grudges, and strange murders. As Daniel diligently follows where the mysterious trail of vengeance leads, he unveils the heroic revelation at its core.

Savage Season

release date: Jan 01, 1990

The Drive-in 2

release date: Jan 01, 1989
The Drive-in 2
The alien invasion of a drive-in movie theatre in Texas leads to an outrageous space-bound adventure that is destined to get stranger and more violent all the time

Something Lumber This Way Comes

release date: Jan 01, 1999

Fine Dark Line

release date: Jan 01, 2001
Fine Dark Line
For young Stanley Mitchell, Jr., 1958 is quickly becoming a year of newfound joys and thrilling adventure. Beginning with the discovery of hidden love letters, and an uneasy meeting with a former reservation policeman, Stanley learns about blues music, Sherlock Holmes, racism, and lost dreams.

Bad Chili

release date: Jan 01, 1997
Bad Chili
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. 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.
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