Western Crime Thrillers

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?

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.

Cass Darringer returns from hunting to find his partner murdered, three innocent men hanged, his mustangs stolen, and himself the target of vigilantes. He's saved by Texas Rafferty and her uncle, but ends up in a fiery showdown with ruthless killers.

There's a lot Jean hasn't said over the years about the crime her husband was suspected of committing. She was busy being the perfect wife, standing by her man while living with accusing glares and anonymous harassment. Now her husband is dead, and there's no reason to stay quiet. People want to hear her story. They want to know what it was like living with that man. She can tell them there were secrets. There always are in a marriage. The truth - that's all anyone wants. But the one lesson Jean has learned in the last few years is that she can make people believe anything.

Nothing much happens in Peaceful Valley, Montana. And that's just how Sheriff Lucas Monk likes it. Aside from the occasional drunken brawl or minor disturbance out on the reservation, he hasn't had to resort to his fists or sidearm in years. That is, until mid-October, 1914, when the theft of a wooden cigar store Indian sets off a crime wave like nothing Lucas has ever seen. Teenager Charity Axthelm goes missing, Reba Purvis' housekeeper is poisoned with cyanide Reba is sure was meant for her, and Lucas' gut tells him that this is only the beginning.

(Newly lengthened and bonus content June 25th 2018) Sometimes nightmares really do come true. Lexa I was a victim turned criminal. Any future I thought I had went up in smoke when the reality of life smacked me in the face. He came to the rescue riding that black chrome beast he called a motorcycle. I let myself love him knowing he wouldn't, and couldn't love me back. Walking away from him was the hardest move I've ever made. Freedom came at a cost. Something I knew all too well. Sam They think they know me? I was Tom to many and Sam too a few. I was the quiet, laid back, and stoic one,...

Will Cannon rescues Mountain Mike, the last living mountain man, from a gang of outlaws from Taos, New Mexico. The gang of ruthless outlaws are trying to steal Mike's silver claim. Will gets some cowboys and some vigilante miners and devises a plan to rid Taos of the outlaws.

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,...

The final novel from Richard Wagamese, the best-selling and beloved author of Indian Horse and Medicine Walk, centres on an abused woman on the run who finds refuge on a farm owned by an Indigenous man with wounds of his own. A profoundly moving novel about the redemptive power of love, mercy, and compassion - and the land's ability to heal us.

When Tyler O'Brien finds a woman lying helpless after an ATV accident on his ranch, nothing adds up. Especially his real, sudden attraction to "Red". But aiding the amnesiac only compounds the rich Texas cowboy's doubts. How can he unlock the truth? Learning that Red is desperately searching for her twin sister who may have come to harm, Tyler - who doesn't "do feelings" - promises help and protection. Soon, he's also burning with desire. As the two race against time to find Red's sister, they're drawn deeper into a complicated mystery.

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 ...

The last time Eddie was in Key West, she was sent to retrieve some politically sensitive photos. She left five bodies, four of them dead, in the little city. Now, her handler has put her on ice until she can prove she is not out of control. With no clues and the elections over, the politicians want to declare August’s shooting at Detective Sharkey’s engagement party a cold case and file it away. However, the KWPD Chief is having no part of filing away a case that left a uniformed officer dead.

Tex Larimee is a grizzled Arizona sheriff who’s leaving the deserts of Cactus County behind, blazing a trail east to mix it up with The Slickers in the canyons of Manhattan. Tex’s welcome to New York is a rude one. Robbed of his cash, gun and badge, he’s locked in a room in back of a run-down bar. Breaking out of the bar, he goes looking for his best friend...only to find him dead, his throat cut. And the cops accuse Tex of committing the murder.

(Professionally Edited June 24th 2018) I let his love almost destroy me and now I was running from it all. Alisa I've loved him forever or so it seems. I was to be wed to his twin brother as the contract demanded. He let his sister beat me and his brother kill my father. Now, the Emilio Empire is at stake and everyone wanted a piece of it. But, the Emilio empire isn't the only prize. In order to take control of the family, they needed me to say I do. And, I am not willing to go down without a fight. Jason She should have been mine. However, our fates were decided the day we were born. I ...

(Edited February 26th 2018) I was running with no place to go and nowhere to hide. Emilia I had no one. They left me at the orphanage when I was young and from there I went from foster home to foster home, carting the black trash bag with my life shoved into it. John was a welcoming rain washing away the past or so I thought. Beau Killing is like breathing natural. I was born into this life and running the local MC that was always where I was going to end up. I didn't need or want an old lady I had plenty of woman floating around to satisfy any craving I had. So why was this chick becoming ...

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 rogue vigilante seeks redemption in a lawless, near-future America that fully protects the rights of armed citizens to stand their ground against mass shooters and motorcycle gangs. When a marksman known as the Wanderer opens war against injustice in the state of Arizona, his violent actions attract the attention of journalist Rosa Veras, writer of a subversive blog about America's return to the Wild West.

Some people, it is said, have the "Midas touch", and all that they touch turns to gold. For Elena Ellery, however, the opposite is true. Everyone that Elena comes into contact with, fares badly. When gold is discovered on what was historically believed to be her father's property but was never registered to him and the placer miners who discovered the gold are shot dead by her family in an unfortunate misunderstanding, this unleashes a chain of events that affect the rest of her life.

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.

From the introduction by James Thompson: Finland, the myths and truths. Internationally, it has a reputation as perhaps the best place in the world to live. A great economy. A low crime rate. Good and nearly cost-free health care. The needy are provided for by the state and live in reasonable comfort. Finns: peaceful and quiet people, living in the perfect example of a social democracy functioning as it should. A tourist, or even a person who has lived here for a length of time, might well view Finland as such.