While Hap Collins is beginning the relationship of his dreams, someone turns up murdered, and Hap and his buddy, Leonard Pine, must solve the crime, which involves a secret group named The Correctors and the Chili Cook-Off king of LaBorde, Texas.

Hap Collins and Leonard Pine take a break from their day jobs to search for Florida Grange, Leonard's drop-dead gorgeous lawyer and Hap's former lover, who has vanished in the Klan-infested East Texas town of Grovetown. Before she disappeared, Florida was digging up some dirt behind the mysterious jailhouse death of a legendary bluesman's son, who was in possession of some priceless merchandise. To Hap and Leonard, something don't smell right. With...

Best friends Hap Collins, a white boy from East Texas, and Leonard Pine, an Africa-American, homosexual veteran, work with Hap's former lover to score a large sum of money.

Roughneck buddies Hap Collins and Leonard Pine befriend a hapless fellow whose younger, weaker brother has fallen in with extremely bad company--he's just joined a gang of bank robbers whose leader is used to increasing his own share of the loot by killing the other gang members. Also includes "The Boy Who Became Invisible," a story Hap tells about something he witnessed years before.

Unlikely partners Hap and Leonard save a woman from a mob hit, only to find themselves confronted by an adversary who challenges their friendship.

Digging up the skeletal remains of a child wrapped in pornographic magazines under his late uncle's house, Leonard vows to clear his uncle's name by investigating on his own and uncovers an evil past of dark obsession.

Hap Collins is a complicated man. He looks like a good ol boy, but his politics don't match. After way too many jobs, Hap has discovered what he's best at: kicking ass. Vietnam veteran Leonard Pine is even more complicated: black, Republican, gayand an occasional arsonist. As childhood friends and business associates, Hap and Leonard have a gift for the worst kind of trouble: East Texan trouble.