Western Crime

Posadas County, sitting along New Mexico's southern border, has enjoyed a surge in visitors, jobs, and prosperity since rancher Miles Waddell used much of his inherited half billion to create an internationally renowned astronomy complex atop Torrance Mesa. Passion, not profit, drives Waddell. Yet benefits include a narrow-gauge train linking the village of Posadas to NightZone. But a ripple of unease is felt across the county with the arrival of developer - no, speculator - Kyle Thompson.

When Karen Simmons is murdered on Valentine’s Day, Detective Elise King wonders if she was killed by a man she met online. Karen was all over the dating apps, leading some townspeople to blame her for her own death, while others band together to protest society’s violence against women. Into the divide comes Kiki Nunn, whose aggressive newsgathering once again antagonizes Elise.

Once he was a young, happily married businessman. Then he lost his wife to human madness and that young man was gone, replaced by the Loner, the wandering son of legendary gunfighter Frank Morgan, and now the current occupant of a cell in the brutal and unforgiving Hell Gate prison. The Kid's crime? He looked too much like an outlaw who escaped from this very prison. So the Kid teams up with a fellow inmate with an escape plan, vowing to hunt down a look-alike killer on the loose.

Set in pre-World War I Europe, The World Is Made of Glass is a powerful novel of love, sexual obsession, murder and guilt. A cryptic and mysterious case history appears in the autobiography of pioneering Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung: ‘A lady came to my office. She refused to give her name. What she had to communicate to me was a confession. Some 20 years ago, she had committed a murder.’ Jung’s encounter with the woman had an explosive effect on him and brought him very close to total breakdown.

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...

It is 1907, a year of financial panic and labor unrest. Train wrecks, fires, and explosions sabotage the Southern Pacific Railroad's Cascades express line and, desperate, the railroad hires the fabled Van Dorn Detective Agency. Van Dorn sends in his best man, and Bell quickly discovers that a mysterious saboteur haunts the hobo jungles of the West, a man known as the Wrecker, who recruits accomplices from the down-and-out to attack the railroad, and then kills them afterward.

A commuter flight has fallen from clear skies over West Virginia, its wing sheared off at 20,000 feet. Air marshal Seth Walker is called to the mountains of Appalachia to investigate. But what he stumbles into is a ground war as unpredictable and combustible as a mason jar full of nitroglycerin. Before he can even start searching for what might have downed the plane, Walker finds himself caught in the confounding - and deadly - cross fire between drone-deploying ecoterrorists, unstable frackers, ruthless drug smugglers, and armed miners pushed to the breaking point.

When outlaw biker, Crash, suddenly finds himself a rich girl’s bodyguard and babysitter, he thinks he’ll teach the stuck-up girl a lesson. The world saw a classy wealthy lady. All he saw was a spoiled little rich girl. Until she reveals the shattered girl inside that tries so hard to hide her fears with a façade of arrogance, attitude, and sass. He’d tear down those walls she tries so hard to build, if only she’d let him. Could the love of a man so wrong for her be the only one to save her? And in his darkest hour, would her love be enough to save him?

Cash McLendon has always had an instinct for self-preservation, one that was honed by an impoverished childhood and life with an alcoholic father barely scraping by on the streets of Saint Louis in 1872. He’s always had a knack for finding and capitalizing on the slightest opportunities, choosing the path of financial security over happiness or real friends. He eventually builds himself up from a Saint Louis street urchin to the son-in-law and heir apparent to industrial mogul Rupert Douglass. Though it lacks passion, his life seems securely set: a wife, a career, property, standing.

During the week between Christmas and New Year's, the year-round population of Key West, Florida, faces a tsunami of tourists and snowbirds. It doesn't help that outrageously wealthy key-lime-pie aficionado David Sloan has persuaded the city to host his pie-baking contest. Every pie purveyor on the island is out to win the coveted Key Lime Key to the City, and Key Zest food-critic Hayley Snow is on the scene to report it. Meanwhile, Hayley's home life is turning more tart than sweet.

When hundreds of empty, unmarked whiskey bottles are found on the reservation known as The Indian Nation in Arkansas and Oklahoma, the reservation police are very concerned. Drinking whiskey is against the Native American’s spiritual beliefs and only those who have lost all hope would indulge in. Concerned with how the whiskey is making its way onto reservation land, Judge Parker, who oversees the Indian Nation, assigns U.S. Marshals Emmet and Jack Youngblood to the task. Emmet, who is also the head of the reservation police force, utilizes all his manpower to find out how whiskey makes ...

Sam Moon investigates the strange phenomena of prisoners recommitting the crimes they were locked up for—all while never leaving their cells. When a suspect fits the description of an inmate who’s in solitary confinement, Sam correctly deduces foul play. But the deeper that Sam and her partner, Brent Cole, investigate, the more perplexing the mystery becomes. And when Sam is threatened by a civilian prison worker, she has no choice but to delve even deeper into the prison's past—and its warden...and uncovers something evil preying upon the inmates. Sam is about to face-off against ...

Barrett “Bear” Fulton hasn’t been with a woman since his wife divorced him years ago, shattering his heart beyond repair. He hasn’t had any interest in women or dating, avoiding both altogether.

Matthew Penny, a young lawyer, arrives on the frontier with nothing but shattered dreams. Unable to face the memories that await back home, he joins the handful of lawyers practicing in Portland, Oregon - which in 1860 is just a riverfront town in a state less than a year old. Worthy Brown, a slave from Georgia, journeys west with his master, Caleb Barbour, who promises to reward Worthy and his daughter, Roxanne, with their freedom if they help him establish a homestead in Oregon. When Barbour reneges on his pledge, Worthy's hope for a fresh start with his child is destroyed.

Black Bart is widely regarded today as not only the most notorious stage robber of the Old West but also the best behaved. Over his lifetime, Black Bart held up at least twenty-nine stagecoaches in California and Oregon with mild, polite commands, stealing from Wells Fargo and the US mail but never robbing a passenger. Such behavior earned him the title of a true “gentleman bandit.”

After two tours as a sniper in Iraq, Tommy Smith has returned to his former life as a cowboy and wilderness guide in California’s Sierra Nevada, hoping to reclaim the simplicity of his youth and heal the wounds the world can’t see. When, high on a mountain pass, he and his partner find the wrecked plane of a billionaire adventurer who disappeared months earlier, a seemingly innocent act triggers a breathtaking cycle of violence that threatens Tommy’s world.

Sheriff Gus knows it’s going to be a bad week when he sees Sedric Hedgecock’s breathalyzer score. With a blood alcohol level of 0.62 percent, Hedgecock should be dead. If the breathalyzer’s isn’t on the fritz, Hedgecock’s superhuman. Either way, he’s blind drunk, so off to the county jail he goes. Joining the wannabe Bacchus in Gus’s cells is Jennifer Louis Bachman, awaiting extradition to Kansas on a murder charge. The victim in question is Jennifer’s unborn child, and the murder weapon is an illegal Mexican abortion. With the governor vacillating on whether to extradite, ...

The US Government's Paranormal Branch has learned Missy's secret and followed most of her activities. They have her FBI friend join their team, telling him that other supernaturals also exist but Missy is the only female werecat. They want Missy to go on to West Point and tell him that "being a vigilante is not what we want for this girl."

A possible scenario if some of the West Mesa Killers got caught..The dedicated officers that made this happen.

In the hushed embrace of Norway’s majestic fjords, where the serene landscape masks the lurking shadows of untold stories, Professor John Castellanos believed he had finally found his sanctuary. Seeking refuge from a tempest of headlines and the haunting echo of murder investigations that had invaded his peaceful retirement in West Sussex, he envisioned a solitary retreat—an escape steeped in the tranquillity of winter's embrace. Little did he know that his quest for solace would unravel into a haunting mystery that entwined him in a web of secrets, despair, and the chilling spectre of ...