Western Crime

Buck Hawkins and Dobie Garrett are a pair of cowboys in the Texas Panhandle. They're unlikely outlaws - until their ranch is stolen and the two cowhands framed for rustling and horse theft by a crooked banker. Now with a price on their heads and hunted by the law, the two cowboys decide that if they have to ride the outlaw trail, they might as well be the best holdup artists in Texas. Problem is, they aren't all that good at the trade.

A gripping work of reportage that, for the first time, tells the story of "Chucky" Taylor, a young American who lost his soul in Liberia, the country where his African father was a ruthless warlord and dictator.

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?

Life got you down? Like literally on the ground and kicking you? Welcome to the club, my club that is. Savanna Everyone wanted something from me, and he was no different, but he wanted to make my nightmares and his fantasies my new reality. It didn’t matter if I was bought, sold, or given as a gift. I had no say in my future, or so they thought. I did the unthinkable, I killed my guard and disappeared into the night. I knew one person who could help me, save me, and keep me from the hell that awaited me. Ronnie, as she likes to be called now. My first act of rebellion, as I hit the road, ...

Stalking the streets of 19th-century London, Jack the Ripper left a gruesome trail of terror in his wake—and then slipped away. Now, this riveting true-crime book peels back the myths and mysteries, providing a gritty and detailed exploration of the clues and theories that have plagued this long-dead criminal investigation. Retracing his most infamous murders, this book will take listeners on a thrilling journey back in time, drawing on the accounts of eyewitnesses, reporters, and detectives to paint a compelling picture of the monster who hunted in the shadows of Victorian London.

Orwell Prize-nominated journalist Heidi Blake uncovers exclusive details of Vladimir Putin’s worldwide meddling with dissident voices. This is the explosive and true story of how Russia operates in our cities, right under the noses of the most powerful nations in the world, and why even they can’t stop him.

This is a Western filled with bandits, stagecoach robbers, gunfighters, cattle towns, and Texas Rangers. What happens when a group of lawmen decide to turn the tables on an outlaw gang? Will their desperate gambit work, or will it backfire and send them all to Boot Hill?

In the early 1970’s Detective Marc Anthony Bryant is responsible for the investigation of all deaths in his suburban Dallas department. The discovery of two Dallas men, tied up and shot gangland-style in his town puts him on the trail of a veteran organized crime figure who has a love for pit dog fighting and a penchant for using car bombs against his enemies. Bryant must hide Lynne, the widow of one of the slain men, while he learns all he can from her about the old Dallas gangster. Lynne is a beautiful young hippy girl who looks like she is straight out of central casting and draws ...

Laurence Rees, in his magnum opus, combines largely unpublished testimony with the latest academic research to create the first accessible and authoritative account of the Holocaust in over three decades. Rees argues that whilst hatred of the Jews was always at the epicentre of Nazi thinking - and the Holocaust was the most appalling crime in history - what happened cannot be fully understood without considering the murder of the Jews alongside other Nazi plans to kill millions of non-Jews as well.

You probably heard the stories of Pablo Escobar, the Medellín Cartel, and Narcos. But do you know the story of the equally essential founder of the cartel and the guy who appears in FORBES 1988 World's Billionaires List as a Druglord?—Meet José Gonzalo Rodríguez Gacha

There'd been several killings in Melville. Unusual killings, no witnesses, no clues, and no suspects. Sheriff Jim Bonner was having a time trying to narrow his search down. He had no idea where to look, or what he might be looking for. The murder was so gruesome, so unexpected, neither him nor his deputy, Smitty Younger, knew where to start looking. Whoever was doing this to his peaceful town was clever and covered his tracks. So Jim set about setting a trap for the villain.

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.

Purgatory is the lawless moon colony of billionaire Fletcher Brass: a mecca for war criminals, murderers, sex fiends, and adventurous tourists. You can't find better drugs, cheaper plastic surgery, or a more ominous travel advisory anywhere. But trouble is brewing in Brass' black-market heaven. When an exiled cop arrives in this wild frontier, he immediately finds himself investigating a string of ruthless assassinations in which Brass himself and his equally ambitious daughter are the chief suspects.

I'm the girl who was always too shy to be the center of attention. I hid behind books, doing all the things a good girl should. Perfect grades. Perfect friends. Perfect life, even if I was lonely. Too bad none of it mattered after I was kidnapped.

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.

It’s early summer in Jackson, Wyoming. Former East Coast prosecutor Jake Trent, now a local fishing guide, is wading through a swift current of local politics, introspection, and tragedy. Three seemingly unrelated deaths have occurred in one day - unheard of in the scenic valley. A skier perishes in a freak late-season avalanche. A French couple is discovered mutilated on a remote trail in Grand Teton National Park - presumably by a bear.On the Snake River, Jake himself finds the body of an expensively attired tourist fisherman.

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,...

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.

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.

The Prescott Brides. A thrilling new series by USA Today Bestselling Author Cynthia Woolf! Five outlaw brides. Five brothers. They take a chance and each find love. Lottie might have become a bride to Brodie, but her past still lingers close. She dreams of having a family and marriage, and becoming a mail order bride gives her hope of finding the love she has always desired. Brodie proves to be just as she had imagined: strong yet gentle, and fiercely protective. But he is mired in a past filled with trouble. Will Lottie and Brodie have the strength to do something extraordinary and prove ...