Western Crime

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.

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.

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.

A young woman sits quietly compliant at a sea-front bus-stop as a police officer takes a bloody knife from her hand. ‘I’m safe now,’ she says. But safe from whom? Who is she, whose blood is on the blade and where has she come from? These are just a few of the questions DS Pete Gayle must answer in the latest book in this top-selling series.

ANOTHER FANTASTIC STORY IN THIS SERIES…Verified Purchase, 5 starsA Marshal. A Beautiful Thief. An enemy she can't outrun. "Fantastic romantic adventure..." 5 StarsWhat an intriguing story with adventure, danger, and romantic suspense…5 Stars Bella Devereaux dreamed of being a restaurateur, not a thief. But life had other plans. Forced to compromise her principles to survive, Bella always gives half of her ill-gotten gains to the French émigrés in New Orleans and saves the other half to fulfill her lifelong goal of opening her own French café. A priceless cache of jewels was supposed ...

I may be the bride - but this isn’t my wedding. You see, I’m pretending to be someone else and marrying the stranger that she was promised to. My future husband is a ruthless man, and if he discovers my secret, I’m dead. I have no choice but to succeed in my task. Earn his love, his trust, and when he least expects it…kill him. It was supposed to be easy. I’d spent a year planning for every scenario. Every possible issue. But then I made the biggest mistake of them all....

Carl Strassberger’s comfortable life in the south of France is shattered when his brother-in-law Larry Lucas, the heir to the family banking business, suddenly vanishes after landing a multi-million-dollar deal. Investigating Larry’s disappearance, Carl uncovers a sinister travel company that helps wealthy, unhappy clients disappear to a new life. But Carl fears Larry is dead – or worse.

A rural noir about a woman on a pulse-pounding expedition to deliver a fugitive - and forced to confront her own past on the journey.

Without his knowledge, Mick Murphy is thrust into the middle of plans to smoke out Mexican cartel gangs in Tijuana, Mexico and their cohorts in the USA. The actions stresses Murphy's relationship with his black-ops friend Norm, as he turns to a cartel attorney and ex-drug smuggler for help. Before the plan comes to an end Murphy could lose his fiancée, Tita, and other Key West friends.

Billy the Kid once said that he killed 22 men - one for each year that he lived. While it’s more likely that he only killed eight or nine, this young outlaw was clearly deadly. But his brief and brutal life reveals how his tragic existence led him into a life of crime. After growing up in poverty as an Irish immigrant in New York City and losing his father at a young age, Billy the Kid had to endure losing his mother when he was only 15.

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.

Wed one of her father’s lecherous old cronies or flee. Those are the only options for Nora Jones. Refusing to be a pawn, she escapes in the night, running for her life. Her freedom. Ben Taylor is no stranger to a fight. An honorable man, he’s still a rough, tough cowboy who gets into plenty of trouble. When caught in a compromising situation, albeit an innocent one, Ben does the first thing that comes to mind – marry the lady in distress. Sparks fly in 1855 in the Willamette Valley in the Oregon Territory as Nora and Ben fall unexpectedly in love, but no one can outrun their past ...

When her mother is killed by the crossfire in a gun battle in the city, Emma Rose Murphy has no choice but to accompany her aunt and uncle on their journey to Oregon. The trail is hard and full of hard people, but Emma Rose knows two things for sure. One, she's never going to fall in love and two, she will never be able to trust a man who carries a gun. When the handsome Noah Parker saves her from an unknown attacker in the dead of night, Emma Rose doesn't know whether to kiss him or run for her life. Former Marshal Noah Parker knows all about evil. First a Pinkerton agent, then a deputy ...

This is the true story of the Clevenger family from Arizona Territory, and their unfortunate events as they trekked north to Washington Territory. Once the old, cantankerous Sam Clevenger and his wife, Charlotte, hired Frank Willson and John Johnson to help with the move, their fate took a dark turn. These true events were documented by journalists through the 1887 trial and well into the 1900s, and stories have been told of Sam's unfound treasure for nearly 130 years.

The body of Joanna Franks was found at Duke's Cut on the Oxford Canal at about 5:30 a.m. on Wednesday, 22nd June 1859. At around 10.15 a.m. on a Saturday morning in 1989 the body of Chief Inspector Morse - though very much alive - was removed to Oxford's John Radcliffe Hospital. Treatment for a perforated ulcer was later pronounced successful.

Nach dem Fall der Mauer im November 1989 wechselt der junge Polizeiwachtmeister Tobias Falck zum Kriminaldauerdienst nach Dresden. Dort bildet er zusammen mit Stefanie Bach, einer der wenigen Polizistinnen in Ostdeutschland, und dem erfahrenen Eddi Schmidt, Hauptmann der Volkspolizei, das frisch gegründete KDD-Ermittler-Team. Doch das neue Leben birgt ungeahnte zwischenmenschliche und kriminalistische Herausforderungen. Und dann ist da noch die Kollegin aus Frankfurt am Main, die nicht nur Westwind in das Dresdner Team, sondern auch ein gefährliches Geheimnis mit sich bringt.

After being reformed for five years in the Wyoming pen, the celebrated criminal Mugs Birdsong decides to found a crime academy that will instruct lawmen on the ways of means of lawlessness. He sets up shop in an abandoned orphanage in Rock Springs, and soon is instructing classes in bank robbery, train robbery, and various other sterling occupations. He sells autographed wanted posters, and persuades a banker to let him stage a mock robbery at the bank, for the benefit of his students - and that's when the fun begins.

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.

In the early summer of 1975 a badly decomposed female body was found on Ulrich Rd in Fort Pierce, Florida. The case was initally investigated as a Jane Doe. No one had reported her missing and the body was so badly decomposed it was hard to get an identification. She was finally identified as Pauline Metler age 33 years old. In early fall the case went cold. In 1976 it was reopened when a prisoner had a case of conscience and wanted to unburden his soul. This book is her story so that she will never be forgotten again.

The West Virginia Penitentiary was a fortress of misfortune, a bastion of brutality, and an aggravated avenue of anguish. But there were events and acts of the prisoners that did provide some humanity in the course of the continual carnage. In this book, these are the stories of what happened every day in the penitentiary.