Series
Hap Collins and Leonard Pine
Joe R. Lansdale & Andrew Vachss · 15 novels · 5 novellas · 2 novelettes · 18 short stories · 6 collections · 1990–2025
Joe R. Lansdale's Hap and Leonard novels follow two working-class East Texas friends, Hap, a straight white ex-activist, and Leonard, a gay Black Vietnam veteran, who keep getting pulled from odd jobs into local crime they can't leave alone, beginning with Savage Season. The long-running series mixes hardboiled crime plotting with the two leads' running banter and loyalty to each other. Other contributors have added short pieces to the same continuity over the years.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
Reading order
The order the books came out.
Map
Hap Collins and Leonard Pine at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 1990s11
- 2000s3
- 2010s24
- 2020s8
Shape
15 novels · 5 novellas · 2 novelettes · 18 short stories · 6 collections
2 authors
reads like:mystery & detectivefriendshipnorth americacontemporarytenseadult
Mood
Grim and intense: 68% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book28 of 46 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Cold Cotton: A Hap and Leonard novelladarkest
- Veil's Visit: A Taste of Hap and Leonardbrightest
- Blood and Lemonadecalmest
- Captains Outrageousmost intense