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Before he can retire to work his Montana ranch full-time, he has one more important task to perform. A junior marshal who Tillman appointed in Laramie, Wyoming, a few years earlier has taken a wrong path and Tillman must remove him from office. Tillman leaves his two grown sons and his sister, Alice, on the ranch and sets out for Wyoming by railroad. Along the way, Tillman makes a few detours and stops to visit old friends and colleagues. As he travels south to Laramie, Tillman relives his life in flashbacks. From the Big Woods of Wisconsin, where he was born and met his wife, Tillman's ...

In 1885, Walter Burke and his two partners make their living as bounty hunters as a means to secure enough money to buy the cattle ranch they always dreamed of owning. When Walter's sister passes away, Walter takes a trip east to assume responsibility of her only son. As an heir, the boy stands to inherit his mother's estate, despite protests from the boy's stepfather. Walter takes the boy west on a journey into a world he has only read about in schoolbooks and dime store novels. Midway through their travels, the boy's stepfather kidnaps the boy for his inheritance. Walter and his partners ...

John Bekker returns in an all new crime/mystery/thriller titled The Fellowship of the Bobs. All of his old favorites are along for the ride. His daughter Regan, girlfriend Sheriff Jame Morgan. His ex-partner Police Captain Walt Grimes and his best buddy, Oz, and, of course Wally Sample. Contacted by his old friend and former lawyer to the mob, Frank Kagan, Bekker takes on a new assignment, that of investigator for Kagan and another old friend and former prosecutor, Carly Simms. Simm’s partner, Campbell Crist, daughter of deceased mobster Eddie Crist and owner of the local, minor league ...

Kellerman is back, bigger, bolder, and tougher than ever. Former US Marine, sometimes private investigator, oftentimes hit man for hire, Kellerman is as hardcore as they come. In Hard Time, Kellerman faces the most dangerous challenge of his career. The love of his life and ex-cop Maria Lopez is serving short time in a country-club prison for white-collar crime. With just four months left on her sentence, Maria is falsely accused of murdering a male guard and whisked off to a maximum security prison where she faces ten or more years of hard time. Kellerman will go to any lengths to prove ...

On the night of the full moon in Wyoming Territory, somebody dies a horrible and ghastly death by being scalped. For months, the territory is held by the grip of fear and Governor Hale turns to Charles Porter, founder of the Illinois Detective Agency, for help. Porter's two top agents, James Duffy and Jack Cavill, are on holiday with their lady friends, so Porter assigns Joe Charles and Tom Adcock and scout/tracker Joseph Goodluck, a Mexican Comanche, to the assignment. Charles, Adcock, and Goodluck report to Governor Hale in Wyoming Territory. The most recent full-moon killing took place ...

A New Mexico County sheriff, John Beckett and his wife Shelly celebrate their wedding anniversary by taking a cruise aboard a luxury cruise liner and get far more than they bargained for when the ship is hijacked by international terrorists’ hell bent on nuking American cities. With the ship adrift in the Gulf of Mexico, the terrorists contact the President with their demands. All prisoners in GITMO are to be released or the passengers die. In true Die Hard, roller-coaster fashion, the sheriff sets out to stop the terrorists from launching nuclear weapons even if it means sinking the ...

Two Hawks, a once proud Comanche warrior defeated in battle is now living a quiet life of desperation on the reservation at Fort Smith, Arkansas. Beneath his calm, collected demeanor beats the heart of a warrior and he dreams and longs for the days when he was young and free to roam and live in his native land. When his wife Yellow Sky becomes ill and dies of cancer, Two Hawks takes it upon himself to leave the reservation and go out on his own. Filled with hate and anger for the white man and especially the settles that pushed him off his land, he rides to the Llano in northern Texas, the ...

In 1926 Indiana, when newspaper reporter James Chase receives a telegram informing him his estranged father passed away in Los Angeles, James is surprised to receive a personal invitation to the funeral. In his forty-five years, James has no memory of his father, John Chase and no idea why he was invited to the funeral. However, out of respect and curiosity, James flies to Los Angeles to attend the funeral. James is met by a Hollywood reporter who takes him to his father’s farm house and orange groves in the countryside in Orange County. His father’s butler, a black man named Cyrus, ...

Lee Gavin and his traveling band of ne’er-do-well’s are back with a new caper to pull. Hired by a famous writer to steal an unpublished manuscript from its unknown author so he can claim it as his own, the band sees it as a simple job for easy money. Simple except that the key that unlocks the safe deposit box where the manuscript is kept is around the neck of Felix, the unknown author’s family pet cat. Solution, steal the cat, except that Felix, a thirty pound Maine Coon Cat doesn’t want to be stolen. From start to finish, nothing in the world of Lee Gavin ever goes according to plan.

Jack is a little boy with a big secret. He’s a true telekinetic. Guarded by the US Secret Service round the clock, Jack lives alone with his mother Jennifer in a secret location known only to a few. So it was thought. A leak puts Jack and Jennifer, in grave danger, and aided by Secret Service Agent Ryan Dunn, they are forced to flee and go into hiding. With unknown killers stalking their every move, Dunn is willing to risk his life to save Jack and his mother, but Jack has other ideas. This is a page turner with an ending that will shock you and leave you breathless.

Police Detective John Bekker had it all: a beautiful wife, a five-year old daughter, and a job he loved. Assigned to a special task force investigating organized crime, Bekker got a little too close to mob boss Eddie Crist. As a message to back off, Bekker's home was invaded and his daughter witnessed the brutal murder of her mother. A decade later, Bekker is a drunk, living in a run-down trailer on the beach.

Imagine waking up in a hospital on a small tourist island off the coast of Southern Maine. You have no knowledge of the boating accident that claimed two lives and almost your own. In fact you remember nothing at all. You have full-blown amnesia.

When Bekker's old friend and state prosecutor Carly Simms wakes up next to a murdered young man in a motel room after a night of drinking, she doesn't remember a thing, especially stabbing the young man in the heart. Although all the evidence points to her guilt, Simms hires Bekker to prove her innocence. Bekker soon finds himself ensnared in a deadly game of cat and mouse.

John Bekker returns in First Light to face the toughest challenge of his career. Hired by a man dying of cancer to locate the baby girl he gave up for adoption forty years ago, Bekker discovers the baby wasn't adopted but sold to a New York couple named Gertz. They named the child Sarah, and Sarah Gertz disappeared without a trace twelve years ago in Washington DC. Bekker uncovers evidence linking Sarah Gertz to the powerful Senator Oliver Koch, who is the next candidate for Vice-President. Twelve years ago, Koch and Sarah had an affair that left her pregnant. Bekker is convinced Koch had ...

After the death of David Kleinfeld, Claire Evergreen’s intended, Claire resigns her position as sheriff of Smoky Point and moves over to the state police as the chief homicide investigator for Long island, New York. One year later, while not over his death, Claire has managed to look past it and resume her life. She remains close to Abby Kleinfeld, David’s father and former mob boss and also with her closest friend, Rose, now sheriff of Smoky Point. On an October morning, Claire catches a bad one. A young woman is found floating at a boat launch by a group of boaters. The young woman ...

Former US Marine, sometimes private investigator, oftentimes hit man for hire, Kellerman is as hard core as they come. Peppered into his life, Kellerman’s closest friend from the Corps and sometimes backup man is gay, his business associate is a Cuban mobster in New York’s Hell’s Kitchen and his girlfriend is a cop. When the three college boys who raped and left a young girl for dead are found innocent on a technicality, the girl’s father comes to Kellerman for justice. He gets it, Kellerman style. From first page to last, Kellerman’s seedy world in Hell’s Kitchen will leave you...

Echoes of Dennis Lehane's Shutter Island: Publisher's Weekly. Readers will receive two shocks; the spin from mystery-suspense to sci fi, and then the identity of the killer. : The Mystery Gazette Isolated during a severe winter storm in 1959, the small community of Dunston Falls in northern Maine is completely cut off from the rest of the state. When town residents begin to experience strange occurrences such as unexplained migraines and hallucinations, the stage is set for a brutal killer to begin his handiwork. When Sheriff David Peck investigates the murders of two women, he slowly ...

Michael and Michele Dunn, twelve-year-old twins, are wealthy orphans living with their socialite businesswoman aunt, Angela Dunn, in Chicago. Angela is too committed to running the family business to raise the twins and she makes arrangements with the Illinois Detective Agency to send them to California to live with distant relatives. The detective agency is run by the son of its founder, Frank Miller. He contracts to take the twins to California and they leave with a team of his men. On the journey, the twins overhear a plot by Miller to kidnap them and hold them for a very high ransom ...

After the Invasion at Normandy Beach in June of 1944, Allied intelligence reports indicated a desperate push by the German Army to turn the tide of the war. Reports of a new chemical weapon developed by German scientists could be unleashed if not stopped. Special Forces 1st Sergeant John Ray and his squad of twelve are selected to perform a reconnaissance mission across the French countryside to seek out locations where the German Army may be hiding their new chemical weapon. As Ray and his squad advance closer to the German front they encounter an explosion in the distance and suddenly a ...

John Tibbets is not just another homeless man living in New York's Bowery. He also suffers from advanced amnesia and has no idea how he arrived at the most famous mission in America. A recluse, he lives a quiet life of desperate isolation. While wandering the Bowery streets one summer night, Tibbets comes upon three men mugging a police officer. Acting on unknown instincts, Tibbets intervenes.