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Joe R. Lansdale
Savage SeasonSavage Season
Mucho MojoMucho Mojo
The Two-bear MamboThe Two-bear Mambo


British Pbk Original - Indigo
Savage Season
Here comes Trudy back into Hap's life, thirty-six but looking ten years younger, with long blonde hair and legs that begin under her chin, and the kind of walk that’ll make a man run his car off the road for a look. Here comes trouble, says Leonard, and he's right; she was always trouble, but she had this laugh when she was happy in bed that could win Hap over every time. Plus, she has a proposition: an easy two hundred thousand dollars, tax-free. Just a simple matter of digging it up, is all …
Hap Collins and Leonard Pine, white and black, straight and gay, are the unlikeliest couple in crime fiction. Here, for all fans of Mucho Mojo and The Two-Bear Mambo, is their debut, a flat-out pedal-to-the-metal talc of blood, revenge and greed.
`Lansdale reaches the reader on a gut level . . . a terrific writer' Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine


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British Pbk Original - Indigo
Mucho Mojo
See Review by Liz Lees
See Review by Val McDermid - Gold Dagger winner & creator of Lindsay Gordon, Kate Brannigan & Tony Hill
Film rights sold to Propaganda Films - to be directed by David Lynch
"Funny compulsive thriller about a gay black and his white slacker friend who inherit a house with an unwanted feature - a child's body hidden under the floorboards. Their investigation leads to one of the more enjoyably raffish thrillers of the year" Stephen Amidon, Esquire
`Lansdale manages to capture the peculiarly affectionate nature of male joshing, while questions of race and sexual orientation are dealt with amusingly and sensitively but without sentimentality... much of the book is outrageously hilarious.' Financial Times
`Red hot gonzo stuff with all barrels firing point blank... an expert prose shitkicker.' Time Out
`Southern Gothic meets hard-nosed thriller... savagely compelling' Arena `This is a book of many dimensions, male loyalties, stubborn moral certainties, a deep well of humour, the rift of colour in a different light, lyricism and violence, an irresistible button-holing narrator with a horrible tale to tell.' The Good Book Guide
'... a real winner of a novel' Manchester Evening News
"A narrative pace that is as blistering as the Texas sun. Savagely compelling" Arena
"....outrageously hilarious. To judge it merely as mystery is to miss much of its charm" Financial Times
"Funny, compulsive thriller.... One of the more enjoyably raffish whodunits of the year" Esquire
'Joe Lansdale is destined to be a really big crime-writing star' - Independent


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British Pbk Original - Gollancz
The Two-bear Mambo
See Review by Jay Russell - one of the greatest talents the horror industry has produced for some time… (Black Tears)
See Review by Val McDermid - Gold Dagger winner & creator of Lindsay Gordon, Kate Brannigan & Tony Hill
See Review by Liz Lees
The world's most dangerous odd couple are back! White and black, straight and gay, Hap Collins and Leonard Pine find themselves in deadly circumstances that might add up to Hap's last chance for romance and Leonard's last chance to raise some righteous hell... Florida Grange, Leonard's 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 bodyguard son. Has she been murdered too?
Redneck psychopaths, voodoo exhumations, biblical thunderstorms, flat-out murder - nothing will deflect Hap and Leonard from their search for the truth. Besides, they've packed a lunch...
The Two-Bear Mambo is a two-stepping bacchanal of savage humour and tension so sharp you could shave with it.
"Just as funny and violent and gripping as Mucho Mojo" Publishers Weekly
"The raciest, best-written piece of bad gumbo the Old South has produced for some time. It's funny and very violent and bas pure Tabasco in its veins" Evening Standard
"Hilarious and horrifying and the conversations are mind-blowing" Time Out
"Over-the-top Gothic quality … the Two-Bear Mambo is so much fun" The Guardian
"Tough, funny, violent, with more to say about justice, sexuality and male bonding than many more prestigious novels which flaunt their sensitivity on their sleeves" Literary Review
"Highly recommended" Attitude
"A folklorist's eye for telling detail and a front-porch raconteur's sense of pace... No tricks, no stylish ennui, no somnambulant remoteness of pointless savagery are required, but a rare sort of gift is, and Joe Lansdale has his in bushel baskets" New York Times


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