Location – New Jersey
David Rosenfelt
David Rosenfelt is an author who has written nineteen novels and three TV movies. His main character in most of his mystery books is Andy Carpenter, attorney and dog lover. Wikipedia
More recently David has added a new character series, Doug Brock, N.J. State Police Homicide Detective suffering from memory loss. Both series take place around Rosenfelt’s home town, Paterson, N.J.
In 1995, he and his wife started the “Tara Foundation” which has saved almost 4,000 dogs. He is a dog lover and supports more than two dozen dogs.
Dogtripping is a non-fiction chronicle of moving across the country from California to Maine with over twenty dogs.
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Steve Hamilton
Steve Hamilton is one of the most acclaimed mystery writers in the world, and one of only two authors to win Edgars for both Best First Novel and Best Novel. His Alex McKnight series includes two New York Times notable books, and he’s put two recent titles on the New York Times bestseller list. Wikipedia
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Book Club Reads
Book Club Reads
Culled from the favorites of three East Coast Book Clubs.
Please write to us with your book club favorites – info@roamingthearts.com
Recent Book Club Favorites:
Theo of Golden – Allen Levi
Tomorrow, Tomorrow and Tomorrow – Gabrielle Zevin
Fifteen Dogs – Alexis Andre
The Correspondent – Virginia Evans
How to Read a Book – Monica Wood
The Safe Keep – Yael Van Der Wouden
The Vesper Wilds – Lauren Groff
Our 2020 Covid List – In case you missed them:
American Dirt- Jeannine Cummins Apeirogon-Colum McCann Ask Again, Yes –Mary Beth Keane Behold The Dreamers –Imbolo Mbue Bel Canto –Ann Patchett Born A Crime- Trevor Noah Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine – Gail Honeyman Fates and Furfies – Lauren Groff In The Midst of Winter – Isabel Allende Mrs. Hemingway – Naomi Wood Pachinko –Min Jin Lee Tattooist Artist of Auschwitz – Heather Morris The Extraordinary life of Sam Hell- Robert Dugoni The Great Alone – Kristin Hannah The Great Believers –Rebecca Makkai The Inn At Lake Devine –Elinor Lipman The Man with a Load of Mischief –Martha Grimes The Snow Child – Eowyn Ivey The Storyteller’s Secret – Sejal Badani This Tender Land-William Kent Krueger -
Joe R. Lansdale
Hap and Leonard series and Stand-alones.
Locations in Texas
Champion Mojo Storyteller Joe R. Lansdale has written novels and stories in many genres, including Western, horror, science fiction, mystery, and suspense. As of 2018, he has written 45 novels and published 30 short-story collections along with many chapbooks and comic-book adaptations. He has been inducted into The Texas Literary Hall of Fame, and several of his novels have been adapted to film.
His Hap and Leonard series of ten novels, four novellas, and three short-story collections feature two friends, Hap Collins and Leonard Pine, who live in the fictional town of Laborde, in East Texas, and find themselves solving a variety of often unpleasant crimes. The characters themselves are an unlikely pairing; Hap is a white, working-class laborer in his mid-forties who once protested against the war in Vietnam and spent time in federal prison rather than be drafted; Leonard is a gay, black Vietnam vet. Both of them are accomplished fighters, and the stories (told from Hap’s narrative point of view) feature a great deal of violence, profanity, and sex. Lansdale paints a picture of East Texas which is essentially “good” but blighted by racism, ignorance, urban and rural deprivation, and government corruption. Some of the subject matter is extremely dark, and includes scenes of brutal violence. These novels are also characterized by sharp humor and “wisecracking” dialogue. These books have been adapted into a TV series for the SundanceTV channel and a series of graphic novels began publication in 2017. Season 2 of the television series is based on the second Hap and Leonard novel, Mucho Mojo, and season 3, which premiered on 3/7/18, is based on the third novel, The Two-Bear Mambo. Much of Lansdale’s work has been issued and re-issued as limited editions by Subterranean Press and as trade paperbacks by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Publications. His current new-release publisher is Mulholland Books. Lansdale also publishes with Dark Regions Press and Tachyon Publications, and with his daughter Kasey he has started a new publishing company called Pandi Press to control the re-issue and publishing of his older works.
