On Sale: Aug 19, 2025
Page Count: 288 pages
Publisher: Mulholland Books
ISBN-13: 9780316514019

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Your next dose of pitch-black comedy, mystery, and mayhem has arrived as Hap and Leonard find themselves in a vicious and ridiculous situation—just as the best friends may finally be calling it quits.

When Hap and Leonard are called in on a strange request (subduing a meth-hopped hog) by a desperate young lady, they quickly learn this woman is part of a fringe group: The Hatchet Girls, who have pledged their allegiance to a crazed and grudge-bearing leader bent on bloody societal revenge. The timing couldn’t be worse to be caught in such a vile, sticky wicket of a case: both boys are wrapped up in their domestic lives: Leonard is in the midst of wedding planning with fiancee, Pookie. And meanwhile, Hap and Brett are hard at work on their new home. Homemaking bliss will have to wait as Hap and Leonard are driven to stop the danger in its tracks and better understand the group’s mission and the plans they have already set in place for helter-skelter esque mayhem.

Life changes, midnight sneaks, and dark encounters with misguided dames who yell “Chop, Chop,” lead Hap and Leonard into one of their darkest adventures yet.

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Hap and Leonard

"A darkly comic mystery. . . Lansdale has written another adventure sure to please fans while also making it compelling enough to stand on its own merits."
Booklist
"The mood here is elegiac, if ruminations on aging and domesticity coupled with bursts of violence count as such. Hap and Leonard may end up in a new place in their lives, but it seems they will continue to be divining rods for trouble."
New York Times Book Review
"Amid the rampant mayhem, however, there are moments of homespun Texas wisdom, allusions to Old West history and more than a few belly laughs. Hatchet Girls is a must-read for fans of Carl Hiaasen or Tim Dorsey."
BookPage, Starred Review
"Lansdale, the genre bard of East Texas, brings the deeply flawed and deeply human crime-fighting duo Hap and Leonard back for a 14th time. This case involves the Hatchet Girls, a cult that follows a bloodthirsty leader intent on giving polite society hell. There also appears to be a wild hog hopped up on meth. Lansdale is a mordantly funny chronicler of Lone Star misdeeds who knows how to keep a plot furiously turning."
Los Angeles Times
"Quick-witted, violent, and aggressively entertaining."
Crime Fiction Review
"Perhaps the funniest man vs. beast scene since Mark Wahlberg brawled with his teddy bear."
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Joe R. Lansdale

About the Author

Joe R. Lansdale is the author of nearly four dozen novels, including Rusty Puppy, the Edgar-award winning The Bottoms, Sunset and Sawdust, and Leather Maiden. He has received nine Bram Stoker Awards, the American Mystery Award, the British Fantasy Award, and the Grinzane Cavour Prize for Literature. He lives with his family in Nacogdoches, Texas.

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