So I went back to read the books I missed in the Hap and Leonard series in between "Vanilla Ride" and "The Elephant of Surprise". In "Devil Red", Hap and Leonard are now working as private investigators for their friend Marvin. A wealthy older woman wants someone to look into the cold case murder of her grandson. Hap and Leonard start poking around and find a clan of people who think they're vampires, really sadistic people. There's a pair of deadly assassins behind the whole thing who are known as Devil Red. Vanilla makes an appearance and helps Hap get revenge on some folks. It was pretty good.
"Honky Tonk Samurai" finds Hap and Leonard hired by a feisty old lady (lots of feisty old ladies in Lansdale's books) to find out what happened to her granddaughter, who disappeared five years earlier. Hap and Leonard discover she was working for a car lot that is a front for a high end prostitution ring. Of course with Hap and Leonard it's never that simple: a family of inbred assassins is featured, Vanilla makes another appearance, as does Jim Bob Luke.
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