Western Crime Thrillers

Railroad worker Woodson Fulk wants nothing more than to keep his head down, do his job, and live out his days in peace. However, when his sister comes to him covered in bruises that her husband gave her, Fulk’s rage drives him to murder the wife-beater. With his brother-in-law’s blood on his hands, Fulk goes on the run, looking for a place that he can lay low and wait out the law. He soon finds an old shepherd and his grandson who are being harassed by local cattlemen. Fulk offers to scare off the ruffians in exchange for room and board.

Our pasts came for me, and I was helpless against the tide as they dragged me away. Texas I was thrown out like trash in a Texas dumpster. My family if you can call them that gave me my name to remind me of where I came from, and what I was garbage. They said I owed them for the roof over my head, and the food they provided. I did horrible things, and my soul was slowly burning, and turning to ash. I belonged to them, and I have the collar to prove it. I wanted freedom, I wanted to escape the hell I was born into. Then I met him, and my life changed that freedom I wanted was just there at ...

Will Cannon rides to the border town of Columbus, New Mexico, to search for the Blackman Gang. A rancher named Vega, from Mexico, is running a gang of Mexican bandits and renegade Apaches who are robbing and murdering innocent people. Vega has joined forces with a Mexican bandit named Ortiz, who has an army of Mexican rebels. Will enlists the help of the American army to fight the outlaws. A group of vigilantes called the Red Masks are also fighting against Vega. The confrontation comes when General Ortiz tries to buy rifles from a gun runner.

John Stuart Tapscott, after service to the Confederacy and his home state of Virginia, heads westward to find a life that doesn't resemble a mockery of everything he's ever known. After brief stops, he finds himself an adopted member of a small band of Osage that have wandered to Texas. A series of events thereafter display the necessity to him of his leaving his new family and trekking further.

An exciting new Western in the style of Robert J. Thomas, W. L. Cox, and Duane Boehm filled with action, adventure, and plot twists such as C. K. Crigger, Robert Vaughan, and C. M. Curtis! This is a book that is filled with the bodies of dead bad guys!

A bounty hunter always catches the bad man, even if the gang he is chasing are dangerous rovers set on killing all in their path.

Damien was dead. Bleeding out in the wild salt marshes of Key West surrounding the airport is not the normal place for a rich money manager with friends. There was a mistress with an engagement ring and a rap sheet, a wife with a private investigator, an ex-wife with a grudge, and an estranged son with a history of bad decisions who was holding a check big enough to make his dreams come true.

Seventeen-year-old Mariana Villalobos's mystic gift creates a sensation in northern Mexico as hundreds of people undergo a personal religious epiphany. Even gangsters reject crime. Seeing revenues tumble in the drug trade, the Liones cartel issues a hit order on the girl.

A fast-paced tale of intrigue and murder in the international art world. When the daughter of an old Florentine family dies, she leaves a bequest to her lover Max Mather, an American art historian who has been managing the family's rare art collection. Mather is left with two priceless artworks by the great Renaissance master Raphael - without the family's knowledge. As Mather contrives to have the artworks discovered at auction in New York, big-time collectors, dealers and auctioneers are drawn into his game.

I wanted what everyone wanted, love, passion, and the perfect life. Instead I found blood, death, and him. Charlotte I was tired of all the Gary’s in the world. Fake promises, and broken hearts were all they offered. Life wasn’t simple, neat, or clean, and it was no where near perfect. I kept meeting him in the weirdest places. All I wanted in life was to meet the none Gary’s, and maybe have two point five kids. But I stumbled into something I shouldn’t have, and he was my saving grace. He took one look at me, and came to the rescue. Me, a complete stranger well maybe not so much a ...

Self-Consumed contains the title story as well as Bagged, Tagged, & Buried. Both tales were featured in the out of print Journals of Horror anthology. They are both reprinted here for the first time and have been polished and edited. In Self-Consumed, a wealthy businessman who killed a young girl while drunk-driving discovers that guilt isn't the only thing that will eat someone alive.

Wilbur Pickett is a retired rodeo rider with big dreams. Dreams of a secure future for himself and his native American wife, a blind woman who sees more than a blind woman should thanks to her ancient heritage. When Wilbur happens upon a parcel of land with black gold waiting for the taking he also happens on Deitrich and a whole bunch of violent problems. Only lawyer Billy Bob Holland is prepared to stand up for Wilbur, to stand against the juggernaut that is Deitrich and his corrupting influence.

Six men rode into the west Texas town of Rook in December of 1895. Moments later, all six men lay dead in the street, shot to death by the good citizens of the town. Ira “Doc” Pearson is sent by the Texas Rangers to investigate, expected to just rubber stamp the proceedings for the dead men were known as the Lawrence Gang: wanted in Texas and New Mexico for bank robberies, rustling, and murder.

When her witness protection cover is blown, Amy Conroy flees across the country. With no money and only her dog for company, she steals rides in the trunks of unsuspecting strangers' cars until a tragic accident lands her in a Key West hospital where she is mistaken for the dead driver. Undergoing reconstructive surgery, Amy becomes almost the mirror image of beautiful Shelly Ralston. Even Matt Jensen, the investigative journalist Shelly was obsessively in love with, believes Amy's the deceased woman.

The gold and silver boom town of White Oaks is a powder keg, and the fuse is lit. The Cavanagh Gang is trying to take control of White Oaks and the gold and silver mines, and the miner vigilantes have vowed to fight Cavanagh to the death. Will Cannon rides to White Oaks in search of the Blackman Gang and finds himself right in the middle of the fight. Will enlists the help of some Las Cruces cowboys that helped him rid Sandoval of a gang of outlaws and of the outlaw that was posing as a priest a few years ago.

Provocations of the spirit world leave us no alternative but to welcome the modern Western prose of David Randall Shorey, and his story about the legendary anti-hero known as Mojave Miles. This tale tells us that the only war worth fighting is for the protection of wayward ladies and no-good horses! Never officially ordained as a vigilante, his vengeance on the Amargosa was accepted as having been handed down by sage angels.

Life got you down? Like literally on the ground and kicking you? Welcome to the club, my club that is. Savanna Everyone wanted something from me, and he was no different, but he wanted to make my nightmares and his fantasies my new reality. It didn’t matter if I was bought, sold, or given as a gift. I had no say in my future, or so they thought. I did the unthinkable, I killed my guard and disappeared into the night. I knew one person who could help me, save me, and keep me from the hell that awaited me. Ronnie, as she likes to be called now. My first act of rebellion, as I hit the road, ...

After returning from being loaned out to another agency, Curt is anxious to get back to the quiet, small town police work that he really loves. Department personnel have changed while he was gone. One of the changes is a new dispatcher working behind the desk when he walks in that night.

The vigilante, the Black Hood, is doing a good job fighting Marx and his hired killers in Dogtown, Colorado, but Will Cannon thinks the Black Hood might need some help. Will rides to Dogtown to buy saddle horses from some young bronc busters there and he finds himself right in the middle of the fight. Will enlists the help of the three brave young bronc busters and they set out to end the criminal careers of all of the men in the Marx Gang. All of the Will Cannon novels are classic western adventures.

Priests are being burnt in their churches. Pope Paul hires two old enemies to track down the killer. Their journey leads them to Galileo and his students, but finding the killer leads them to another. They can't deal with this one, but perhaps Anthony's teenage children can.

Two small towns in Colorado: Hope and Despair. Between them, nothing but 12 miles of empty road. Jack Reacher can't find a ride, so he walks. All he wants is a cup of coffee. What he gets are four redneck deputies who want to run him out of town.