Thursday, April 13, 2023

Honky Tonk Samurai


 Shirley J.              Adult Fiction                                 Best Friends/Private Eyes,  East Texas
Honky Tonk Samurai (A Hap and Leonard Novel #9 in the series) by Joe R. Lansdale   368 pages

The start of a normal day for freelance private investigators, Hap and Leonard, begins with witnessing a man abusing his female dog.   When Leonard and Hap see this guy swearing and kicking his dog so hard the poor animal cries out in pain, Leonard, animal lover that he is goes over and treats the abuser to the same he is dishing out to the poor dog.  Hap liberates the pooch and takes her home to live with him and his wife Rhett.  The day gets stranger from there when a new client an elderly woman comes in to the office to ask them to find her missing granddaughter in exchange for her keeping silent to the cops with the video she has of Leonard beating the crap out of the dog abuser.    They agree.   They learn that the innocent seeming car dealership her granddaughter was last known working for turns out to be the front for a high dollar prostitution ring.   Bodies start accumulating and blackmail is going on and so goes another story in the saga of Hap and Leonard and it is a good one!   I recommend this book to mature middle schoolers on up.  A fun read with lots of grown folks stuff going on.   

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