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1) The Thicket
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
In The Thicket, award-winning novelist Joe R. Lansdale lets loose like never before, in a rip-roaring adventure set at the dark dawn of the East Texas oil boom, the perfect introduction to an acclaimed writer whose work has been called "as funny and frightening as anything that could have been dreamed up by the Brothers Grimm — or Mark Twain" (New York Times Book Review)
Jack Parker thought he'd already seen...
Jack Parker thought he'd already seen...
Author
Publisher
Crossroad Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
When the Magic Wagon comes to town, folks get a genuine medicine show that includes a wrestling ape, fancy shooting, and a peek at the petrified body of Wild Bill Hickok himself. They also get bottles of a whiskey-laced elixir to drown their aches and pains. Old Albert drives the wagon, a rawboned youngster named Buster Fogg does the odd jobs, and "champion" trick shooter Billy Bob Daniels.
Author
Publisher
Hachette Audio
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Mark Twain meets classic Stephen King — a bold new direction for widely acclaimed Edgar Award winner Joe R. Lansdale.
May Lynn was once a pretty girl who dreamed of becoming a Hollywood star. Now she's dead, her body dredged up from the Sabine River.
Sue Ellen, May Lynn's strong-willed teenage friend, sets out to dig up May Lynn's body, burn it to ash, and take those ashes to Hollywood to spread around. If May Lynn can't become...
May Lynn was once a pretty girl who dreamed of becoming a Hollywood star. Now she's dead, her body dredged up from the Sabine River.
Sue Ellen, May Lynn's strong-willed teenage friend, sets out to dig up May Lynn's body, burn it to ash, and take those ashes to Hollywood to spread around. If May Lynn can't become...
4) Mucho mojo
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Digging up the skeletal remains of a child wrapped in pornographic magazines under his late uncle's house, Leonard vows to clear his uncle's name by investigating on his own and uncovers an evil past of dark obsession.
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Pub. Date
2009, c1998
Language
English
Description
Hap Collins puts his mid-life crisis on hold to join his best buddy, Leonard Pine, and his girlfriend, Brett, on a mission to rescue Brett's troubled daughter from the dangerous inhabitants of Hootie Hoot, Oklahoma.
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Pub. Date
2009, c1997
Language
English
Description
Hap and Leonard return to clear Leonard's name, encountering along the way homophobic cops, deadly bikers, a pyromaniac nurse, a rabid squirrel, the town's own murderous chili king, and, of course, one bad-ass tornado.
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Pub. Date
2009, 1995
Language
English
Description
Florida Grange, Leonard's gorgeous lawyer and Hap's former lover, has vanished in Klan-infested Grovetown. Fearing the worst, Hap and Leonard set out to do the kind of investigating that the local cops can't, or won't, do themselves.
8) Rusty puppy
Author
Series
Publisher
Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Mismatched private detectives Hap and Leonard investigate the murder of a young black man who was conducting his own civilian investigation into the white cop who was stalking his sister.
Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Charlie Garner has a bad feeling. His ex-wife, Meg, has been missing for over a week and one quick peek into her home shows all her possessions packed up in boxes. Neighbors claim she's running from bill collectors, but Charlie suspects something more sinister is afoot. Meg was last seen working at the local donut shop, a business run by a space-age, evangelist cult...Along with his brother Felix...Charlie uncovers strange and frightening details...
Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"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...
11) Paradise sky
Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books, an imprint of Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
On the run after an infamous landowner murders his father, Willie becomes an expert marksman before turning Buffalo Soldier, befriending Wild Bill Hickok and earning the nickname "Deadwood Dick."
12) Cold in July
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
When Richard shoots dead a burglar in his home, the burlgar's father seeks revenge.
Author
Publisher
Dead Sky Publishing
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Formats
Description
Climate change can be terrifying as we navigate through climate action— haunted by our past which dictates our future. In this anthology— Revelations: Horror Writers for Climate Action— twenty-one legendary horror authors bring both dark tales and awareness to our worldview. Apocalyptic futures, dire warnings, things unleashed from icy tombs... this collection gets under your skin and gives readers a peek into worldswhere prophecy and nihilism...
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Exit Wounds is a thrilling anthology of crime stories written by masters of the genre, including Dean Koontz, Val McDermid, Lee Child, Jeffery Deaver, Elly Griffiths, Dennis Lehane, Joe R. Lansdale, and others.
After an introduction by the editors, Paul B. Kane and Marie O'Regan, this collection includes the following stories:
"The Bully" by Jeffery Deaver"Dead Weight" by Fiona Cummins"Like a Glass Jaw" by Mark Billingham"On The Anatomization...