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The crosshatch men (Nightingale Series Large Print Bks.)
By Ray Hogan. 1989
Curt Ramsey is in danger of losing his ranch to the crafty ranch hands he has fired. Only his estranged…
brothers can help, but first they must get past renegade Indians and dangerous outlaws. 1992.The complete Western stories of Elmore Leonard
By Elmore Leonard. 2007
Collected stories of a suspense writer who began his career writing pulp westerns for magazines. Thirty works span Leonard’s career…
from "Trail of the Apache" (1951) to "Hurrah for Captain Early!" (1994). Some violence and some strong language. 2007.The complaints
By Ian Rankin. 2009
Nobody likes The Complaints - they're the cops who investigate other cops. Complaints and Conduct Department, to give them their…
full title, but known colloquially as 'The Dark Side', or simply 'The Complaints'. It's where Malcolm Fox works. He's just had a result, and should be feeling good about himself. But he's a man with problems of his own. He has an increasingly frail father in a care home and a sister who persists in an abusive relationship - something which Malcolm cannot seem to do anything about. But, in the midst of an aggressive Edinburgh winter, the reluctant Fox is given a new task. There's a cop called Jamie Breck, and he's dirty. The problem is, no one can prove it. 2009.The Dakota deal (A black Horse Western Ser.)
By Dan Claymaker. 2008
For John McCallam, escaped prisoner on the run, the discovery of the deserted cabin and the dead body of a…
man seemed just the lucky break he needed. Here was his chance to assume a whole new identity, become another person, even down to a change of clothing. But little did McCallam realise the nature and character of the man he became. 2008.The contract surgeon
By Dan O'Brien. 2001
Fictionalized account of the friendship between Dr. McGillycuddy and Sioux leader Crazy Horse. McGillycuddy, a private physician working under contract…
for the army, must decide whether to act as a doctor or a friend when the seriously wounded chief faces cruel imprisonment. Some violence and some strong language. 2001, c1999.The Dakota trail: a Ralph Compton novel (Trail drive series. #14.)
By Ralph Compton, Robert Vaughan. 2001
Returning home after the Civil War, Confederate soldier Dick Hodson finds his Texas town destitute and the surviving ranches, including…
his family's, nearly in ruins. To save them, Dick plans a cattle drive north with a party of greenhorns. One dangerous man's fortune, however, rests on their failure. Some strong language, some descriptions of sex, and explicit descriptions of violence. c2001. (Trail drive series ; 14)The coyote tracker: a Josiah Wolfe, Texas Ranger novel (Josiah Wolfe, Texas Ranger series. #5)
By Larry D Sweazy. 2012
After a prostitute is murdered at the Easy Nickel saloon, Texas Ranger Josiah Wolfe finds his best friend, Scrap Elliot,…
in jail and wrongly accused. A strangely familiar horse and a mysterious code are the only clues Josiah has to prove his friend's innocence and save him from execution. Once a Yankee reporter gets involved, Josiah is led to Blanche Dumont's House of Pleasures, where he learns of a thieving, jail-broken accountant with strange ties to both the Easy Nickel and the town's wealthiest banker. Winner of the 2013 Spur Award for Best original mass market paperback. 2012.The cougar's prey: a Josiah Wolfe, Texas Ranger novel (Josiah Wolfe, Texas Ranger series. #4.)
By Larry D Sweazy. 2011
Assuming a secret identity, Josiah Wolfe investigates a slew of thefts that are leaving the local ranchers of Corpus Christi…
angry as hell. After four long months away from home, Josiah will have to bring the leader of the raids to justice if he ever wants to return home to his family. c2011.The crocodile bird
By Ruth Rendell. 1993
When her mother, Eve, tells Liza she must leave their remote home, the gatehouse of a country mansion, Liza is…
terrified. Although 17, she has never been on a bus or a train or played with a child of her own age. She has almost no knowledge of the world her mother describes as evil and destructive. Their strange, enclosed life together is over because Eve has killed a man and he is not the first. Liza is cast adrift but is not alone. She keeps her love affair secret from her mother, and from her lover she learns about the world and about herself. 1993.The Chisholm trail (Trail drive series. #3.)
By Ralph Compton. 1993
Ten Chisholm has returned to the Texas brakes with a team of cowboys and ex-soldiers. He must round up wild…
longhorns, ward off angry Comanches, and survive outlaw attacks as he opens a new trail to Kansas. He also vows to marry Priscilla, the beautiful daughter of a New Orleans gambler who has promised her to a wealthy man she hates. Some descriptions of violence and some strong language. 1993.The business of dying: the complete Western stories
By Richard S Wheeler. 2017
A collection of ten Western short stories. In "Mugs Birdsong's Crime Academy," celebrated criminal Mugs Birdsong decides to found an…
academy that will instruct lawmen on the ways and means of lawlessness. "The Last Days of Dominic Prince" is the tragic tale of a cattle baron and his final conflict with the forces of political correctness. "Dead Weight" introduces us to a coffin maker who constructs a work of art. And in the title story, two young men in the gold fields of California spend one last night together as one of them confronts his own imminent death. This collection also includes "The Square Reporter," "A Commercial Proposition," "The Great Filibuster of 1975," "The Tinhorn's Lady," "Hearts," and "Looking for Love at a Romance Writers Convention." 2017. Uniform title: Short stories.The Cheyenne Trail: a Ralph Compton novel (Those Jensen boys!)
By Ralph Compton, Jory Sherman. 2017
Chip Chippendale met Ransom Barnes after the War Between the States, when the two cowboys drove a herd up from…
Texas together. But when Chip first laid eyes on Wyoming, he knew he was home, and the two friends split off on different trails. Each man went on to own his own ranch, but when Ransom's home is attacked and burned by a marauding band of Cheyenne warriors, he is faced with ruin--and makes matters worse by gunning down the Cheyenne leader's son. A target of the most vicious renegade on the high plains, Ransom turns to his old friend Chip. And Chip never forgets his friends--even if it means making a few enemies. 2017.The brass man: a Western story
By Max Brand. 2018
Lew Weldon must choose between two jobs: hired gun for a smuggler, or bodyguard to a beautiful convalescent. The first…
could be deadly, but the second could land Weldon on the outlaw's bad side. 2018.The Cater Street hangman (Thomas Pitt Ser.)
By Anne Perry. 1979
The branch and the scaffold: the true story of the west's legendary hanging justice (Lone Star audio)
By Loren D Estleman. 2009
Brutally efficient judge Isaac C. Parker is determined to rid Arkansas and the Indian Territory of all manner of criminals.…
But his quest for justice and liberal use of the gallows earn him just as many friends as enemies and take a toll on every aspect of his life. 2009.The Bozeman Trail: a Ralph Compton novel (Trail drive series. #16)
By Ralph Compton, Robert Vaughan. 2002
1860s. During the Civil War, a motley group of young people plan a cattle drive from Texas to Dakota. Among…
them are James Cason; Duke Faglier, seeking to avenge his family’s murder; and the Scattergood brood of four brothers and a sister, all suspected cattle thieves. Some violence. Sequel to "Alamosa trail", followed by "Amarillo trail". 2002.The bushwhackers
By Lee Floren. 1992
Cal Sherman came to Mad Horse Basin looking for a place to settle down after the civil war, but the…
basin was on the brink of war between cattleman Mel Powers and the sodbusters, and Cal was headed for a deadly showdown before he knew it. 1992.The Californios
By Louis L'Amour. 1974
In 1844, Eileen Mulkerin is about to lose her ranch in Malibu when an ancient Indian, survivor of the Old…
Ones, leads her to a hidden cache of gold. Some descriptions of violence. 1974.The blue jay
By Max Brand. 1926
The canyon of bones (Skye's West Ser. #15)
By Richard S Wheeler. 2008
1850s. Barnaby Skye and his Crow Indian wife Victoria agree that Skye should take a second Indian wife to produce…
a son. Skye marries Blue Dawn, a beautiful young Shoshone woman, and the trio is hired to guide English explorer and journalist Graves Mercer to see a mysterious canyon full of dinosaur bones. On the trek, they endure prairie fires, superstitious natives, and Mercer's arrogance, which endangers the whole party. Sequel to "Fire arrow", followed by "Virgin River". Some descriptions of violence and some strong language. 2008. (Skye's West ; 15)