A review by nigellicus
Bad Chili by Joe R. Lansdale

adventurous dark funny mysterious tense

5.0

This is still early Hap and Leonard, when Lansdale didn't mind pouring the sheer nasty brutality on the lovable pair, especially Hap, but Leonard gets his fair share too. This one opens with him getting bitten, in a scene of macabre hilarity, by a rabid squirrel no less, and things don't exactly pick up from there on in, with the notable exception of his love life,, which is one bright spot in the vista of murder and torture and brutality and sheer bad luck that follows as Leonard gets implicated in the murder of a biker and Hap has to try and sort it out, with the affable assistance of one Joe-Bob Briggs. Don't want to spoil the ending, but there's a massive twist. Er.