Western Crime

Hugo Reddick sets out in search of an old hookup. Instead, he finds the woman’s bubbly sister raising what may or may not be his daughter. While trying to figure out how to navigate this potential bombshell, Hugo plans to stay as far away from Everly as possible. But the more he turns the perky woman down, the harder she pursues him, until he can’t resist her for even a second longer.

On the 24th of February 1994, police knocked on the door of an aging house in the English town of Gloucester. They'd come to serve a search warrant in the case of a missing girl - the daughter of the house's inhabitants. What they uncovered would shock the world: decades of child abuse, an underground torture chamber, and a burial ground containing the bodies of the spent victims of the torture - including that of the missing daughter.

When Nelson Pepper discovered gold on Half Moon Pass, he sent a telegram to his brothers who were still trying to make a go of it on their Kansas farm. Three of Nelson’s brothers traveled to Colorado and joined the venture, but the story takes a dark turn when men resort to robbery and murder to get the brothers’ gold.

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.

Paul Desmond admires his close friend George Harlequin for his impeccable European breeding. Head of a prestigious Swiss bank, Harlequin belongs to a vanishing class of gentlemen whose handshake is their bond. Then their gilded world is blown apart. A computer printout identifies the Harlequin et Cie bank as the target of a gigantic takeover. The mastermind is Basil Yanko, a ruthless financial genius whose instruments are fraud, blackmail and terror. As the conflict moves from Zurich to London, New York and Mexico, Harlequin must become a 'villain by necessity'.

One of the biggest concerns as the Civil War wrapped up was that Confederate troops might disappear into the Appalachian Mountains where they could conduct guerrilla raids with relative impunity. If they did, the war could have been extended for years, maybe even decades as the insurgents crept out of their strongholds to conduct hit-and-run raids.

No Compromise (DS Peter Gayle thriller series, book 7)A brutal murder. A man jailed. A new witness who claims he couldn’t have been there.Already in the middle of a violent and complex case, DS Pete Gayle gets entangled in a tangled web of lies and intrigue. With a man in jail for a murder he may not have committed, the reputation of the station and the whole force is on the line. Pete has to face one of the hardest choices of his life. To break ranks and go against another officer risks losing friends, colleagues and career, but if he ignores the case, will he be able to live with himself?

Journalist Alex Derksen's new assignment in Tanzania should be easy, but he soon finds himself on the wrong side of the news. It starts when he meets Ranna, a beautiful photographer with something to hide. Alex stopped believing in love a long time ago, yet here in the middle of East Africa, it's found him again. Alex knows a thing or two about chaos - wherever he goes, it follows. When an IT billionaire washes up onshore after seasonal flooding, he finds himself at the center of an investigation with Ranna as the main suspect.

Clara must face a dangerous situation with her new husband, but she is not entirely sure if she can trust him. Is her new husband a kind, genteel man, or is he one of the outlaws terrorizing their town? Clara always thought that life as a mail-order bride would be better than what she left behind. Unfortunately, her new husband Robert is a quiet, reclusive man who doesn’t want to spend much time in her company. Lonely and upset, Clara turns to the other women of the town, only to hear that there are outlaws nearby. Outlaws that are steadily growing closer to the town. When Clara finds ...

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...

Steven. A man with one name raised to serve the long arm of the law. With a bullet in his chest and stripped of the badge that defined him, he seeks revenge against those who murdered the only father figure he's ever known. To get it, he must learn to trust the very outlaws he once fought to bring to justice. Miss Strawberry Lane. A beautiful soiled dove with a past baggage she hopes to keep buried forever. She longs to become more than just another working girl under the guidance of an established madam and an unknown benefactor. To reach that status, she has to choose which friends to ...

The Youngblood brothers, Jack and Emmet, are called back into service by Judge Isaac Parker in an all new historical western adventure. Sally Chisum, niece of the late John Chisum of New Mexico, sells one thousand head of cattle to the Indian reservation in Fort Smith. Nine drovers off the reservation agree to drive the herd from New Mexico to Arkansas. At the midpoint, just south of the Red River, the nine drovers are attacked and killed and the herd is stolen. Judge Parker assigns Marshal Jack Youngblood and his brother, Emmet, the daunting task of tracking down the men responsible for ...

Lenora Whitaker never thought spending one night with U.S. Marshal Clayton Caldwell would put them in the crosshairs of a killer. Connected to a protective custody case gone awry, they are both attacked, leaving Clayton with a damaging case of amnesia and forcing Lenora to go on the run. After taking a bullet to save her life, Clayton is unable to remember Lenora or that he's the father of her baby. But the moment he tracks her down, it's clear the attraction is still there.

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.

Duncan Wyatt and Lo-Lo Del Ray are back for another fun-filled, roller coaster ride as they try to locate and stop a serial killer that is terrorizing the Eastern Seaboard. Called out of retirement once again by his former boss at the FBI, Wyatt is asked to take charge of the manhunt for a killer that is murdering high-class escorts from Maine to Florida. It’s a race against time to locate and stop him before he kills again, but at any moment the tables could turn and hunter becomes the hunted and the chase becomes deadly. Key West Gatekeeper is Wyatt and Lo-Lo at their best and the ride ...

From the pages of Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine: All is not right at Fort Bridger. Miss Pandora Parson and Corey Callaghan arrive to give testimony in Lieutenant Ridgewood’s dereliction of duty trial. With the court inclined against him, it looks like the good lieutenant is going to be found guilty. The only thing standing between an honest soldier and an unjust conviction is a certain lady gambler and her bare-knuckle boxer friend.

From the pages of Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine: When lady gambler, Miss Pandora Parson, and bare-knuckle boxer, Corey Callaghan board the train out of Cheyenne, all they’re expecting is a hot dry ride through the August countryside. A simple game of cards looks like the perfect way to pass the time. Little could they know that one of their fellow passengers has a little mayhem on his mind—enough so to make this one memorable Pandora’s Journey.

From the pages of Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine: When the stagecoach lady gambler, Miss Pandora Parson, and bareknuckle boxer, Corey Callaghan, are riding in breaks down in the middle of nowhere, they think that all they have to worry about is food, water, and finding a way to civilization. They have no idea that something more sinister awaits them and their fellow passengers in the old mining ghost town they take shelter in and no way to know that not all of them will be walking out again.

Contains books one, two, and three of the Deliver series. She is a Deliverer. She lures young men and delivers them to be sold. She delivers the strikes that enforce their obedience. She delivers the training that determines their purchase price. As long as she delivers, the arrangement that protects her family will hold. The one thing she can't deliver is a captive from slavery. Until him. And her stubborn slave thinks he can deliver her...from herself.

Two tales of a city: the historical race to reach one of the world's most mythologized places and the story of how a contemporary band of archivists and librarians, fighting to save its ancient manuscripts from destruction at the hands of al-Qaeda, added another layer to the legend.