Western Crime Thrillers

David Robbins continues the proud tradition of Ralph Compton's Western novels with enough hardscrabble heroes, blazing gun fights, and twisted villains to fill a corral. Bluff City is a booming silver mining town full of pigeons to pluck. When two of its wealthiest citizens devise plans to rob their neighbors legally and illegally, only Clay Adams stands in their way.

Whenever Nash Kincaid looks in the mirror, he only sees a monster who ruins lives. Thanks to his involvement with the Dirty Aces MC, there’s so much blood on his hands he’ll never wash them clean again. Violence is just part of the outlaw lifestyle. That’s why he’s not all that surprised when he’s hit with divorce papers three years after his wife walked out on him.

MURDER ON THE TRINITY: BOOK TWO: SKYWOLF Deputy Sheriff Joseph Skywolf looks every bit the picture of his great-grandfather Chief Tokala, long black braids cascading down his back,black piercing eyes. The early settlers called his people savages, right now the blood pumping through his veins was hot and, savage. The woman he loved had been attacked, almost killed. and the .savage in him would settle for nothing less than revenge. White man's justice or the Redman's? That question would only be answered when Joseph caught up with those guilty.

The year is 1910. Halley's Comet has just signaled the end of the world, and Jack Johnson has knocked out the "Great White Hope", Jim Jeffries. Keystone, West Virginia, is the region's biggest boomtown, and on a rainy Sunday morning in August, its townspeople are gathered in a red-light district known as Cinder Bottom to witness the first public hanging in over a decade. Abe Baach and Goldie Toothman are at the gallows, awaiting their execution.

The first adventure in a brand-new Western series from Alfred Wallon! When young Deputy Marshal Pete Hooker is brutally murdered after uncovering a plot to smuggle weapons to revolutionary Miguel Otero, hardened U.S. Marshal Jim Kennedy rides into El Paso to finish the job. But time is running out—the first shipment of rifles has already slipped through, and Otero’s blood-soaked revolution looms. Navigating a viper’s nest of smugglers, corrupt officials, and double-crossers, Kennedy battles ambushes, treachery, and his own limits to stop the next shipment.

Face-to-face with the woman who jilted him, Colin O'Brien tells himself he's over her. What the charming rancher doesn't know is that the man Melissa Roark Rancic married has forced her - and her infant daughter - to live a charade of love. And now, about to testify to his criminal deeds, she's shaken by rekindled feelings for Colin and scared that he'll discover her child is his. Though angry, Colin vows to protect Melissa from her vengeful ex while safeguarding his own heart. But once he steps up, he can't step away. No danger can keep Colin from the woman he never stopped loving....

Fifth Ace MQ Ashcraft The late 1980s were a time of complex foreign relations. Without the modern surveillance technology we have grown accustomed to today, the KGB operated freely, dealing in secrets and manipulation within its own borders and ours. Likewise, crime was rampant along the US - Mexico border. In the quiet border town of Ya Basta, Texas, Sheriff Deputy Bo Jernigan faces a baffling murder involving local teens and a mysterious extra playing card. Coupled with a rash of car thefts along the border and Bo has his hands full policing his town. Adding to the chaos is a mafia hitman...

Zac discovers that certain vigilantes are controlled by corrupt federal officials. He aims to bring them in, but the price for justice may be terribly steep this time.

Pegasus Quincy, a rookie deputy on temporary assignment in a sleepy mountain town, expects a quiet summer citing jaywalkers and writing traffic tickets. Fate intervenes when a dead body turns up in an old copper mining pit. The man is a three-time loser disowned by even his own mother. Peg’s sheriff boss declares the death an accident and tells her to “move on”. She wants to agree, but then her office is ransacked and her assistant kidnapped...Will they find the killer before he strikes again?

Arizona Ranger Sam Burrack's on the trail of a gang of bank robbers, a mission that's led him right into the path of a raging wildfire. As the pines around him go up in flames, Burrack is determined to catch the murderous Cheyenne Kid and his gang and recover the money they stole. But Burrack isn' t the only one with a case against the Kid. When Gilley Maclaine overhears the Cheyenne Kid reveal his plans to kill her, she swipes the money he promised her and gives him a swift kick on her way out the door.

A woman steps out of a limousine on the Upper East Side, her jewels glittering brightly, and the doorman looks her over. A few phone calls later, the heist is planned. Thieves descend on the woman's home, planning to swipe the jewels and depart silently. Instead the robbery turns violent. Mitch Laughton doesn't intend to solve a murder case, but he will find the stolen jewels. A professional investigator of stolen gems, he is hired by the victims' insurance company to recover the $6 million haul.

For as long as the O'Briens have run their ranch, their rivals have been the McCabes. So when Ryder O'Brien returns home, only one thing can screw things up: getting involved with Faith McCabe. There's no temptation greater in Texas, and Ryder is about to pay the price. Just as their passion ignites, Faith up and leaves, only to return five months later, seeking Ryder's help finding her missing brother and pregnant with Ryder's baby. Ryder may have held grudges longer than he ought to, but he always does right by his kin, especially when the woman about to change his life is in danger.

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 ...

A student disappears in broad daylight just yards from the university. With potential witnesses beginning to disperse across the country for the Christmas break, DS Pete Gayle is under extra pressure to figure out what happened as quickly as possible. Did she leave of her own accord, unable to cope with the pressures of university? Was she snatched by an ex-boyfriend, a stalker or a random attacker? Or was she targeted because of the way she’d chosen to supplement her student loan? One disturbing discovery after another draws Pete and his team through a minefield of sensitive information,...

Former SAS soldier Jack West is on a mission to save the world, no matter what—or who—it might cost him. Still reeling from the loss of his daughter, and with his rivals far ahead of him, Jack must race across the globe to complete the ancient Trial of the Mountains. With the odds already against them, Jack and his crew will soon discover that a new player has entered the race, a general so feared that he had been locked away in the deepest of dungeons.

Three fictional books in one about a greedy grandmother who would do anything to make a living by selling cannabis, booze, and playing hot and heavy card games. She gets burned out of her farm rents a beach house and starts all over buying a yacht and doing more hot and heavy poker and gin rummy games. She grows her cannabis and adds LSD to make it more fun causing havoc.

Jack West Jr has made it to the Supreme Labyrinth. Now he faces one last race—against multiple rivals, against time, against the collapse of the universe itself—a headlong race that will end at a throne inside the fabled labyrinth. But the road will be hard. For this is a maze like no other: a maze of mazes. Uncompromising and complex. Demanding and deadly. It all comes down to this. It ends here—now—in the most lethal and dangerous place Jack has encountered in all of his many adventures.

Thad Taylor is no one's idea of a fine man. Usually drunk and shiftless, he's disapproved of by most - especially his father. But when his father doesn't return from a trip across the Kansas plains, Thad is the only one who can search for him. And he's far from ready for the ordeal. Because his father is already dead. He has fallen victim to the bloody Benders - a demented family who lures travelers into their cabin way station only to rob and brutally murder them.

Arizona Ranger Sam Burrack is a predator lying in wait. He's undercover as an outlaw to infiltrate a pair of vicious border gangs and bring them down. This mission has already had its share of casualties, and if Burrack has his say, there will be more. A cloud of dust rises as four men ride toward the Twisted Hills. The only thing between them and certain death at the hands of the Apaches is Sam, who also wants those men dead.

A tale of two crimes in the twenty-first century: In the rugged ranch country of eastern Arizona, Graham County Deputy Branden Allred and San Carlos Tribal Police Officer Allen Victor are investigating the death of a young Apache. At first it appears to be a freak accident, a conclusion the Sheriff likes, but the officers begin to suspect murder. Motive is the major missing element, and nothing makes sense until a one-hundred-year old unsolved crime comes to light.