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The day the cowboys quit
By Elmer Kelton. 1999
Texas Panhandle, 1883. Cowboys refuse to be stigmatized as drinkers and exploited by the wealthy cattle owners who don't pay…
decent wages. The ranchers also want to take away the cowboys' rights to own cattle because they believe it would lead to thieving. When rumours of such anti-ownership legislation travel to the cowboys, they decide to fight back by holding a strike. Descriptions of violence and strong language. 1971.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 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)Southern cross (Andy Brazil Ser. #No. 2)
By Patricia Daniels Cornwell. 1999
Robbery, murder, incompetence and not enough parking spaces - just another day in the life of a big city's police…
department. Judy Hammer investigates as a virus crashes the police computer, freezing screens with a design of blue fish - the same one a gang called the Pikes claim is their symbol. Strong language. 1999.Savidge (Black horse western)
By Sean Kennedy. 2010
Joe Savidge has revenge in his heart. But having been beaten to within an inch of his life following some…
dirty dealings in a lawless small town, he ends up in Pioche, Nevada, with little more than the shirt on his back - to say nothing of the tools required to make revenge a reality. Then he meets a woman who is down on her luck - just like him, but with a lucrative connection to a mysterious Frenchman. For Savidge, playing along means the opportunity to purchase guns and horses: necessities for a man hell-bent on retribution. 2010.Northfield: a western story
By Johnny D Boggs. 2008
Fictional account of the 1876 robbery of the First National Bank in Northfield, Minnesota, by the James-Younger gang. The raid…
unfolds from various perspectives, including those of outlaws Frank and Jesse James, Sheriff James Glispin, the daughter of a murdered teller, and the gun-toting town residents. Some strong language. 2007.Matagorda: a novel
By Louis L'Amour. 1967
The cowboy comes to Matagorda looking for a herd to drive to Kansas, but finds instead a town caught in…
a blood feud where every man is forced to join or die choosing. 1967.Dust (Dr. Kay Scarpetta mysteries. #21.)
By Patricia Daniels Cornwell. 2013
After working on one of the worst mass killings in US history, Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta returns home to…
recover, but an unsettling call drives her straight back to work. The body of a young woman has been discovered inside the sheltered gates of MIT, draped in ivory linen and posed in a way that is too deliberate to be the killer's first strike. 2013.Keegan's lady
By Catherine Anderson. 1996
Colorado, 1885. Ace Keegan returns to avenge his stepfather's murder and his mother's rape. He discovers that the killer, Conor…
O'Shannessy, is dead but O'Shannessy's daughter, Caitlin, has inherited the ranch. Ace compromises Caitlin's reputation, but then proposes a marriage of convenience as compensation. Descriptions of sex, some violence, and some strong language. c1996.Just breathin' hate
By Dempsey Clay. 2008
When the law went loco and charged him killing his wife, innocent Jack Fallon had two choices only - run…
or hang. So he ran - to a strange lost valley shut off from the world and ruled by a cult of holy men who would prove more lethal than any posse could ever be. 2008.High country (Literature of the American West ; #15)
By Willard Wyman. 2005
Ty Hardin leaves Montana to learn 'packing' (leading mule trains into mountains where wagons can't go) from the best -…
Fenton Pardee. After many adventures and being wounded in World War II, Ty eventually heads for the Sierra Nevada - the highest country of all - to become a legend in his own right. 2006 Spur Awards winner. 2005.End of the drive (The sacketts Ser. #No. 7)
By Louis L'Amour. 1997
Tales of the untamed West depicting people who face harsh tests that threaten their way of life and survival. In…
"Caprock Rancher," a boy comes to realize his father's courage as the two join forces to recover their neighbours' lost savings from outlaws. 1997.Dream wheels
By Richard Wagamese. 2006
In pursuit of a world-champion title, Joe Willie Wolfchild suffers a career-ending accident and is taken to his family's ranch…
to recuperate. Meanwhile, urban street-kid Aiden, sick and tired of his mother Claire's long string of abusive boyfriends, plans a robbery only to land in jail. Upon his release, a concerned parole officer finds a place for Aiden and his mom at the Wolfchild ranch. Strong language. 2006.Cross bones (Temperance Brennan Ser. #No. 8)
By Kathy Reichs. 2005
When an Orthodox Jew is found shot to death in Montreal, forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan is called in to figure…
out the puzzling damage to the corpse. Unexpectedly, a stranger slips her a photograph of a skeleton and assures her the picture is the key to the victim's death. Before she knows it, Tempe is involved in an international mystery as old as Jesus. 2005.Comanchero Trail (Black horse western)
By Jack Dakota. 2011
When Dean Kittredge is taken on as a hired gun by the Rafter W ranch, the owner's wilful granddaughter is…
only the first of his worries. He soon finds himself up against the notorious El Serpiente and his gang of Comanchero gunmen. 2011.Birdman (Jack Caffery mystery.)
By Mo Hayder. 2000
The Met's crack murder squad is called when five bodies are found, all young women, all ritualistically murdered, dumped on…
wasteland near the Millennium Dome. Detective Inspector Jack Caffrey, young, driven, unshockable, finds himself facing hostility within the force and echoes of his past. Tortured by a death long ago that he might have prevented, he now works around the clock, knowing that this sadistic killer will strike again. 2000.Callaghen: a novel
By Louis L'Amour. 1972
The patrol’s lieutenant is killed by Mohave Indians, but Private Callaghen’s leadership and desert survival skills save the rest of…
the men. After discovering a treasure map in the dead officer’s belongings, Callaghen changes his plans and tests his mettle. Some descriptions of violence. 1972.Body double: a novel (Rizzoli And Isles Ser. #Bk. 4)
By Tess Gerritsen. 2004
Pathologist Maura Isles - an adopted child who never knew the identity of her birth parents - is confronted by…
the corpse of a murdered woman who is apparently her identical twin. She launches an investigation, together with Detective Jane Rizzoli, into her sister's past, following the trail to a state correctional facility and a schizophrenic inmate who may be her mother. This leads to a remote cabin in Maine, a killer who has been murdering expectant mothers for decades, making periodic sweeps of the country, and the kidnapping of an affluent pregnant housewife who is kept buried in a crude coffin. Some descriptions of violence and some strong language. 2004.A good man
By Guy Vanderhaeghe. 2011
Set in the late nineteenth-century Canadian and American West, this combines a compelling love story, a tale of revenge and…
violence, a spectacular battle scene, and the story of an incident in Welsely's past that threatens his relationship with Ada. Companion to "The Englishman's boy" (DC13940) and "The last crossing" (DC24555). Some descriptions of sex, descriptions of violence. 2011.A coffin for Santa Rosa
By Steve Hayes. 2009
Dying of typhoid fever, Ingrid Bjorkman asks Gabriel Moonlight to bury her beside her late husband in Santa Rosa. Knowing…
he's an outlaw with a rope awaiting him in New Mexico, she makes him promise to hire a Pinkerton to escort the coffin. But Gabriel loves her too much to let anyone else handle the burial and accompanied by her rebellious teenage daughter, Raven, he takes the coffin to Ingrid's former farm where her husband is buried. But the shadow of the rope looms over Gabriel. Faced with betrayal, can he escape with his life? 2009.