Today's featured new hardcover mystery, suspense, or thriller title scheduled to be published during February 2017 is …
Rusty Puppy by Joe R. Lansdale, a Hap Collins and Leonard Pine Mystery (14th in series)
Publisher: Mulholland Books
While Hap, a former 60s activist and self-proclaimed white trash rebel, is recovering from a life-threatening stab wound, Louise Elton comes into Hap and Leonard's PI office to tell him that the police have killed her son, Jamar.
Months earlier, a bully cop pulled over and sexually harassed Jamar's sister, Charm. The officer followed Charm over the course of the next couple of months, leading Jamar to videotape and take notes on the cop and his partner. The next thing Louise hears, Jamar got in a fight and is killed in the projects by local hoods. It doesn't add up: he was a straight A student, destined for better things, until he began to ask too many questions about the racist police force.
Leonard, a tough black gay Vietnam vet and Republican, joins Hap in the investigation, and they stumble upon the racial divides that have shaped their Eastern Texas town. But if anyone can navigate these pitfalls and bring the killers to justice, it's Hap and Leonard.
— Rusty Puppy by Joe R. Lansdale
For a list of more new hardcover titles to be published this month, visit our New Mysteries page for February 2017. For new paperback titles, visit The Mystery Bookshelf where a selection of February 2017 mysteries, novels of suspense, and thrillers are shelved.
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