One Minute Reviews identifies Lansdale's The Bottoms as 1 of 5 novels
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She describes it as
"The Bottoms (2000) by Joe R. Lansdale. "Joe Lansdale is best known for his series of violently farcical novels in which Hap Collins, white and straight, and Leonard Pine, black and gay, join forces in an odd crime team let loose among the rednecks in the Deep South, but The Bottoms is something very different," Shephard and Rennison write. The novel, set east Texas in the mid-1930s, involves the discovery of a mutilated body bound to a tree in the river bottoms near the home of its young narrator, Harry Crane."
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