In typical Hap and Leonard fashion, a freak accident and a wrong-place, wrong-time occurrence (this time almost being creamed by a long lost bookmobile on their way home from a fishing trip), drops the boys into a murder mystery after the bookmobile is found to be loaded with corpses. They set about on the wrong side of the tracks to find the killer and action and hilarity ensues. Great addition to the series and I look forward, as always, to the next full-length adventure. Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for allowing me to read and review this title, I will be recommending the purchase of this title at my library.

Well this wasn't quite what I expected. Now when you have a white man who is best friends with a black man who happens to be a gay republican, maybe all bets are off. It was a mystery as expected about a missing bookmobile and it's librarian. All the principal players were black and lived in a town than had been victim to terrible racial crimes in the past. Still it didn't prepare me for the conclusion. Oh I had part of it figured out, but the manner of dealing with the criminals had some unexpected twists.
Although it was well written, I can't say I enjoyed it. Be sure to research the author and books he writes before you stumble into it blindly.

This book is hilarious! For those who like the books of Randy Wayne White and Tim Dorsey, this book is for you. This book is very fast paced and you will not want to put it down once you pick it up and start reading.

I prefer longer Hap and Leonard stories but Hoodoo Harry was long enough to satisfy me. No time is wasted (yay!) on setting up the situation and providing backstory on Hap and Leonard. That said, I don't think it's necessary for new to the series readers.

As usual, there are plenty of bad people inhabiting their world and little...can't think of anything right now...of brightness or light in this story. Still, it wasn't as depressing to me as the Hap and Leonard teenage short stories I recently read because, hurt and bruised, adult Hap and Leonard win in the end.

The way the story starts off was unusual and interesting and there's a nice twist near the end.

I received my copy from Netgalley in exchange for my honest review.

HOODOO HARRY by Joe R. Lansdale- This is a Hap & Leonard novella, a Biblio-Mystery, Short Tales about Deadly Books. The two Texas mischief makers and sometimes detectives are run off the road by a long lost bookmobile, whose driver had gone missing along with it years ago. A frightened twelve-year-old, who had been tortured by persons unknown, was driving it now and never lived to tell his tale. Something Hap & Leonard just couldn't walk away from. So, they begin digging and talking to people, and, as usual, things get a little tense. This is a straight forward tale that is breezy and enjoyable, especially to any fans of the series or its author.

It all began with a fishing trip that ended in an accident. And a mystery - a bookmobile piloted by a 12-year-old had hit Hap and Leonard. But the bookmobile had been missing for years. And more bodies were found in a tank. To stop Hap's insomnia, the team when out a sleuthing and finally turned up some clues. Of course there were fights and philosophizing, but all for the sake of a good tale. Add this story to all the other Hap and Leonard ones you have read.

Thanks Netgalley for the opportunity to read this!

No suprise here, another fun filled story with Hap and leonard. You cant go wrong with a Lansdale book.

“Hoodoo Harry” is the latest in Joe R. Lansdale’s entertaining stories that feature Hap Collins and Leonard Pine, two friends from “rural” Texas. If you are new to this series, be advised that Hap and Leonard are, as always, rude, crude, and very funny, although this is one of the more “tame” accounts. The story is dialogue driven, but it is more “event” focused than many, so Hap and Leonard are less politically incorrect. They are still “down home” and funny, though. ”We terrorized the poor fish and threw them back at the end of the day, which for the fish, if you considered the alternative, wasn’t so bad.”
Hap and Leonard have their own private detective agency out of LaBorde, Texas. They are involved in a curious accident; a bookmobile hits them. They are fine, but the bookmobile driver, a young boy, is killed in the accident. Shockingly, the bookmobile had vanished fifteen years before. Things get stranger still when the bodies of multiple children and one adult are found inside the wrecked hull of the bookmobile. (It is Hap and Leonard, after all. What else could one expect?) They want to find out what happened all those years ago, however, their reputation is well known.
“You don’t know our lives,” Leonard said. “We could be smart.” Stump made a grunting sound. “I got a pretty good idea about your lives, and I’m thinking it isn’t pretty.”

Everything said and done, the story takes the reader right into downhome Texas. It is a quick, fun book to read, but watch out, you might just laugh right aloud while you are reading about murder and other assorted unsavory things. NetGalley gave me a copy of this book in exchange for my honest review. This is not my first Hap and Leonard book, and I both laughed, and cringed all the way through.

HOODOO HARRY by author Joe R. Lansdale is the latest story involving Hap and Leonard and is a fast-paced short read that finds the pair serving up a dish of their own brand of rough justice.

Harriet Hoodalay aka "Hoodoo Harry" as she was named by the locals in the small all-black community that she lived in as a result of the mysterious events surrounding her disappearance several years ago. Harriet drove a bookmobile that went missing at the time of her disappearance, only to have it reappear and crash into a truck with Hap and Leonard inside.

Hap is troubled by the death of the young boy driving the bookmobile, and Leonard agrees to assist him in digging up the truth surrounding the missing Harriet and several youths from the community.

Several hilarious events take place, of course with Leonard in the forefront of all the rough and tumble exchanges with anyone who gets in their way.

Pretty much standard Hap and Leonard story with typical humorous situations and kick ass & take names exchanges making this an enjoyable addition to the full length novels in the series.

4 stars

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Hoodoo Harry is actually a woman and she used to drive the bookmobile in her town. The bookmobile and Harry both disappeared years ago and no one ever knew what became of them. Enter Hap and Leonard.

As they're driving down the road one day, what comes up the road towards them, but the bookmobile? It's being driven by what looks like a young boy and unfortunately, he drives right into Hap and Leonard! That's all I can say about the story, you'll have to read it to find out what happens next.

I love these guys and this novella was no exception. I also loved the bookmobile when I was a kid, so this story very much appealed to me. Hoodoo Harry has to be one of my favorite entries in the series so far and I know that I'll be thinking about her and her bookmobile for a long time to come.

Highly recommended!

Available August 1, but you can pre-order here: Hoodoo Harry (Bibliomysteries)

*Thanks to NetGalley and to the publisher for the digital ARC of this book in exchange for my honest review. This is it!*

Hap and Leonard are minding their own business when they are hit by a bookmobile driven by a young boy. The boy ends up dying and they discover that the bookmobile had been missing for years. Along with the lady that used to drive it.

The guys can't resist finding out what had happened to the bookmobile lady and why the young boy with a sad story was driving it.


It's always a fun time with these two characters and this little short was a quick read letting me visit with them again. I don't know if I ever want to eat with them though.
"Not until I get a burger. I'm so hungry I could eat the ass out of a menstruating mule."



Booksource: Netgalley in exchange for review.

There is a new Hap and Leonard out, this one a novella. There, that should stand on it's own as a review. I mean really, that's all anyone need know, Hap and Leonard. Let the wild rumpus begin.
Returning from a fishing trip, Hap and Leonard almost die when Leonard's truck is crushed by a runaway bookmobile. The bookmobile, along with it's driver, Harriet Hoodalay, has been missing for fifteen years. The driver of the returned -to- life bookmobile, a young black teenager, does not survive the accident.
Hap and Leonard get permission from their friend Marvin Hanson, the local police chief, to observe the forensic people examining the bookmobile. A horrific discovery is made and Hap and Leonard have too many nightmares or sleepless nights to be able to leave it alone.
Hap and Leonard are the partners that make Spenser and Hawke look like effete dilettantes. Their give and take is audacious, raunchy and raw. Plus, I can't think of anyone who writes Texas better that Joe. R Lansdale.
I am not a short story or novella reader as a rule, I always seem to end up feeling short changed. This is an exception for me. Everything needed for a complete story is here. Do I wish it was longer, oh hell yes, but just for the sure pleasure of reading about Hap and Leonard.
Thank you to NetGalley for an ARC in exchange for a fair and honest review.

When Hap and Leonard are leaving the fishing hole, a book mobile driven by a twelve year old boy crashes into them, killing the boy and Leonard's truck. The mystery of the boy and the bookmobile sends them down a spider hole of kidnapping and murder..

I got this from Netgalley.

In Hoodoo Harry, Hap and Leonard are at it again, trying to get to the bottom of a book mobile that's been mising for fifteen years and the deceased boy who was driving it. After getting patched up, the boys drive out to Nesbit and dig into the past of the boy and the vehicle and its disappearance a decade and a half before.

Hoodoo Harry is a fairly short mystery novella. Lansdale used some classic misdirection. Even though I knew the suspect I picked probably didn't do it, he still pulled the wool over my eyes.

Hap, Leonard, Marvin Hanson, and Brett were all in fine form, although how much crime commited by Hap and Leonard can Marvin keep sweeping under the rug? He's police chief, not police god, as he remarked during the tale.

Hoodoo Harry was a lot of fun and a worth edition to the ongoing legend of Hap and Leonard. Four out of five stars.

Review: HOODOO HARRY by Joe R. Lansdale
(BIBLIIOMYSTERIES)

Joe R. Lansdale has long carved an ineffable niche for his delightful duo Hap and Leonard. This creatively imagined "odd couple" are now private investigators, and in this novella in the BIBLIIOMYSTERIES Series, Hap and Leonard stumble into investigating a tiny, struggling Texas African-American community, the inexplicable reappearance of a rural bookmobile missing for 15 years (along with its driver), and horrifying, stomach-churning villainy.

Another winner from Joe R. Lansdale. Great story! Hap & Leonard are definitely a unique combination, quite possibly the most original characters to emerge in the world of crime fiction in the last 25-years or more.

Hap & Leonard are returning from a successful day of fishing when they are run off the road by a small blue bus driven by a wild-eyed kid. Leonard's truck, boat and boat trailer are pretty much a total loss.

The young boy, a 12-year-old orphan, is killed in the wreck.

The blue bus turns out to be a bookmobile that disappeared, with the driver, fifteen years ago. How does a boy who wasn't even born yet turn up driving a bookmobile that has been missing for fifteen years and seems to be in almost pristine condition? What was he running to get away from? What ever happened to the original driver Harriet Hoodalay? Hap & Leonard set out to find the answers.

Full Disclosure: I am a great fan of the Hap & Leonard series (both the books and the television show) so I am probably less than impartial in judging their quality. On the other hand, if I didn't think a particular offering was up to par I would likely judge it most harshly - thankfully, that wasn't the case here.

One of the things I love most about Joe R. Lansdale's Hap & Leonard series are the little touches, the oddball folks the two come in contact with, the often humorous asides that abound, and all the other things that combine to make a Hap & Leonard story so much fun. Hoodoo Harry may be a short narrative but the reader is by no means shorted on action or plot.

Hoodoo Harry is a quick, fun read. It comes in at about 75-pages which makes it either a novellete, a novella, or a really long short story. I don't have the criteria for the categorization process nailed down but I can say without fear of contradiction that it's a first rate story.

I wholeheartedly recommend Hoodoo Harry to anyone with even a passing interest in crime fiction, or private detective stories.

This book is part of The Bibliomysteries series. Described as "a series of short tales about deadly books, by top authors."

***Special thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for allowing me the opportunity to read and review Hoodoo Harry by Joe R. Lansdale