Outrageous, funny, gutsy, disgusting, tales of ethical dilemmas. All these descriptors could be used to explain why Joe R. Lansdale is a must read.
Set in the steamy backwoods of 1930s Texas Sunset and Sawdust relates the tale of Sunset who having murdered her husband the Town Sheriff, takes his place as the law and order of a company lumber town. Follow her as she deals with the case of her husband’s mistress and baby both found dead and covered in oil on a black man’s land. Can she trust the beautiful man who arrives from nowhere, becomes her deputy and catches the eye of both her and her daughter.
If you listen to the audio book of Lansdales’s ‘Vanilla Ride’ you are in for a real treat. Phil Gigante’s Texas lilt evokes the world of Hap and Leonard; best friends and a mix matched team who can’t help find trouble wherever they go. This book takes you on a roller coaster ride never to be forgotten as a good deed for a friend leads to the most dangerous assassin in the south out to get them.
