{"id":41594,"date":"2026-06-08T06:53:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T10:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=41594"},"modified":"2026-06-08T09:56:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T13:56:21","slug":"leather-maiden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=41594","title":{"rendered":"LEATHER MAIDEN by Joe Lansdale \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/4mBT0Y5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2026\/z060826zview_leatherm.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"774\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/4dWgeoN\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LEATHER MAIDEN<\/a>\u00a0by Joe R. Lansdale<\/p>\n<p>First sentences&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When you grow up in a place, especially if your childhood is a good one, you fail to notice a lot of the nasty things that creep beneath the surface and wiggle about like hungry worms in rotten flesh.\u00a0 But they&#8217;re there.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>The Overview:\u00a0 Beware of Spoilers\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Cason Statler, a Gulf War vet and Pulitzer Prize-nominated reporter was on top of the world.\u00a0 Then he blew it. Cason had an affair with his boss&#8217; wife&#8230; and the boss&#8217; thirty-year-old stepdaughter.\u00a0 That cost Cason his job&#8230; and his reputation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">So Cason returned to his small hometown of Camp Rapture, Texas where he was able to get a job as a reporter for the local newspaper.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a big step down for a Pulitzer Prize nominee.\u00a0 Cason is drinking too much.\u00a0 He&#8217;s fighting jealous feelings towards his older brother who is a happily married college professor.\u00a0 Plus Cason is spending too much time checking up on his ex-wife.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">One day digging through old files, Cason discovers the unsolved murder of Caroline Allison.\u00a0 Caroline was an intelligent college student who just vanished.\u00a0 The only clue was her abandoned car.\u00a0 Cason realizes this could be his ticket back to the big leagues.\u00a0 He begins a series of articles about Caroline.\u00a0 As Cason digs deeper he discovers other linked crimes of blackmail, torture and murder.\u00a0 Worse still Cason&#8217;s brother is somehow involved.<\/p>\n<p>Cason has no choice but to keep digging, no matter the cost.<\/p>\n<p>+++<\/p>\n<p>Joe Lansdale has written another winner.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Rating:<\/strong><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_a.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LEATHER MAIDEN\u00a0by Joe R. Lansdale First sentences&#8230; When you grow up in a place, especially if your childhood is a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[52,51,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-crime","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41594"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41833,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41594\/revisions\/41833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}