whose soul and heart had been turned to leather, just as surely as the bodies of those poor dead women she and that psycho Stitch had tortured and killed.
Caroline was the true leather maiden. She had been that way a long time. And, to this date, as far as anyone else knows, she’s still missing.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Joe R. Lansdale has written more than a dozen novels in the suspense, horror and Western genres. He has also edited several anthologies. He has received the British Fantasy Award, the American Mystery Award, seven Bram Stoker Awards and the 2001 Edgar Award for best novel from the Mystery Writers of America. In 2007 he won the Grand Master Award at the World Horror Convention. He lives in Nacogdoches, Texas, with his family.
ALSO BY JOE R. LANSDALE
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Copyright © 2008 by Joe R. Lansdale
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Lansdale, Joe R., [date]
Leather maiden / by Joe R. Lansdale.—1st American ed.
p. cm.
1. Journalists—Fiction. 2. Cold cases (Criminal investigation)—Fiction. 3. Texas, East—Fiction. 4. Domestic fiction. I. Title.
PS3562.A557L43 2008
813'.54—dc22 2007051854
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
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