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Binding: HardcoverDewey Decimal Number: 813.54 EAN: 9780375414527 Edition: 1 ISBN: 0375414525 Label: Knopf Manufacturer: Knopf Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 304 Publication Date: August 05, 2008 Publisher: Knopf Release Date: August 05, 2008 Studio: Knopf Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: A masterly new thriller from the Edgar Award–winning writer who has “a folklorist’s eye for telling detail and a front-porch raconteur’s sense of pace” (The New York Times Book Review). After a scandalous affair costs him his job in Houston, Cason Statler—Gulf War veteran and Pulitzer Prize–nominated journalist—returns home to the small east Texas town of Camp Rapture. Cason is a wreck. He drinks too much, he’s stalking his ex-girlfriend, and he’s wallowing in envy of his successful older brother. To get back on his feet, he takes a job at the local paper, and when he stumbles across his predecessor’s notes on a cold case murder file, he thinks he’s found the thing that’ll keep him out of trouble. No such luck. The further he digs into the case, the more certain he is that the unsolved crime is connected to a series of eerie, inexplicable events that have recently occurred in town. And he knows his suspicions are right on when he finds himself dragged into a deadly game of blackmail and murder that clearly has evil as its only goal. Leather Maiden is a brash amalgam of suspense, raw humor, and mystery that unfolds in the vividly rendered shadowy lowlands of eastern Texas. It’s country noir as only Joe Lansdale can do it. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - S L O WWell, I will agree with other reviewers - the writing in this book is good. There's just one problem. I read the first 10 chapters and ... nothing happens! This IS a mystery, right? The book simply did not hold my attention. A GOOD mystery grabs the reader by the throat right away and doesn't let go. I kept reading a few pages, putting the book down, trying again and ... I finally gave up! NOTHING HAPPENS! Thank goodness I got this at the library. I'd be really upset if I paid money for this waste ... Read More Rating:  - Lansdale is one of the best authors in any genreThere is a moment in LEATHER MAIDEN, Joe R. Lansdale's new novel, that illustrates in stark yet profuse manner just how brilliant a craftsman he remains at this late date. It happens early enough in the proceedings. The protagonist, Cason Statler, has returned to his hometown of Camp Rapture, Texas, after serving in the Gulf War, being nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and losing his job with a major newspaper. Statler walks into a no-name bar, looking for a drink and perhaps some companionship, and ... Read More Rating: - Great Dialogue and TwistsI haven't found anyone else that writes like Joe Lansdale. He's like a fist in your face but with a tender heart at the elbow. He'll reach out and slap you, offend you, and wring a guilty chuckle out of you all at the same time. When you finish one of his novels, you'll be blessed and have to beg forgiveness. LEATHER MAIDEN allows Joe to unleash those small-town sentimentality that I love about his work. The novel works in the small, dark places of murder, revenge, and baser instinct, ... Read More Rating: - joe lansdale never disappointsRead all of the books you can by Joe Lansdale, he is one of our greatest living writers and this one is right up there Rating: - Leather MaidenYou know what a pleasure is in store for you from the first page of "Leather Maiden," the newest book from Joe Lansdale, upon being introduced to Cason Statler. He is returning to Camp Rapture, where his parents and his brother and sister-in-law still live, an old timber town in East Texas where he grew up and where is now moving back, after stints in Iraq and Afghanistan, where he earned some medals, and a newspaper job in Houston, where he earned a Pulitzer nomination, all of which have had a profound ... Read More 
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