Western Crime Fiction

Some treasures are better left buried. Jay Bohmer never turns down an adventure—especially not when it involves Clint, the childhood friend who once saved his life. So when Clint buys a mysterious artifact linked to the legendary Lost Dutchman’s Mine, Jay agrees to join him on a quest into Arizona’s Superstition Mountains, hoping for gold but ready for anything. But he’s not ready for murder. When Clint is found dead in a canyon—his death blamed on the spirits said to guard the treasure—Jay is left reeling. Locals whisper of curses. Shadows move where they shouldn’t.

Sheriff Sam Bridges has seen plenty of evil, but when a woman is found brutally mauled in Amity’s gold mine, Sam finds himself facing an enemy unlike any he’s ever known. Some say it’s a wolf. Others call it a demon. Sam isn’t sure what to believe—until the creature takes the one person he can’t bear to lose.

Tex Waco is a Texas oil billionaire who heads up the group of rich Texas vigilantes known as the Texas Twelve. Some drug dealing criminals, with connections that reach into the highest levels of government, make the fatal mistake of killing a friend of Tex Waco. Tex and his group of men waste no time in giving the criminals a lethal dose of 45-caliber Texas justice.

Sometimes bad people just need to go down, and for whatever reason, there's usually no one else around to do it. He just wanted to pass through town unnoticed, but vicious outlaws made his business their own and picked a fight he was desperate to avoid. The worst sin yet, they've targeted an innocent woman and her child in their schemes. Austin must now take up his gun and do what he hates but is better at than anyone else: fight without mercy, fight to the end, and win at all costs....

Tex Waco is the Texas oil billionaire that heads up a group of rich Texas vigilantes known as the Texas 12. A former business partner of Tex is kidnapped and held for ransom by a Mexican drug cartel in Oil Field, Texas. Tex; his two adopted sons, Kale and Ellis Baylock; and The General fly to Oil Field and begin to make their plans to bring the drug cartel to justice and take the cartel's money.

A well-known heart surgeon from Houston tells Tex that a mutual friend of theirs has an inoperable heart condition and their friend has gone to a stem cell clinic in Mexico to seek treatment. Their friend, Mr. Pittman, has been kidnapped and is being held for ransom. Tex calls his right hand man, The General, and soon Tex and his men and women are on the way to Mexico to give the criminals a lethal dose of .45-caliber Texas justice.

Created by Les Savage, Senorita Scorpion is in fact Elgera Douglas, a young lady who became a legendary outlaw defending her family's land and legacy, the fabled Lost Santiago Mine. Beautiful and deadly. A crack shot. A fast-thinking, daring fighter who is ruthless to those who threaten the land and people under her protection!

Springtime in Montana. Cold, snowy, and chock full of danger. Depraved bandits ride into town during a snowsquall and hold several people hostage in a bank robbery suddenly gong terribly wrong. Cowboys and Indians attempt to help a tired Marshal free those terrified hostages. And hopefully keep them alive in a world of molten chaos.

A bounty hunter always catches his man, even if the men he is chasing are dangerous gang-bangers and murderers. Mysterious bounty hunter Spade is hired by the new governor of Texas when voters start to become terrified of the crime waves that are taking over the state. Spade is ordered to kill Gomez and Santez, two of the most wanted murderers in Texas. He is given permission to use any force necessary to get the job done.

In a land scorched by sun and stained by secrets, one man walks a path below the reach of law, hope, or mercy. William Cash—once sheriff, now a ghost in his own story—emerges from the ashes of Johnson’s Corner to confront the evil that festers beneath the soil. But the devil wears many faces, and redemption runs as dry as the riverbeds. In the aftermath of fire and betrayal, a new darkness takes root. Children vanish, shadows whisper in the trees, and a woman with no past holds the key to an ancient curse.

Tex Larimee is a grizzled Arizona sheriff who’s leaving the deserts of Cactus County behind, blazing a trail east to mix it up with The Slickers in the canyons of Manhattan. Tex’s welcome to New York is a rude one. Robbed of his cash, gun and badge, he’s locked in a room in back of a run-down bar. Breaking out of the bar, he goes looking for his best friend...only to find him dead, his throat cut. And the cops accuse Tex of committing the murder.

Dalton Brisco rides into town and sees the sheriff of San Angelo, Texas, gunned down. After he kills the two men involved in killing the sheriff, Brisco finds himself in the unusual position of being a gunfighter wearing the sheriff’s tin star. Out-gunned and out-manned, Brisco has to devise a plan to keep the town from being taken over by a crew of gunmen, cattle rustlers, and horse thieves.

Los Angeles, 1854. Felipe Alvitre and a band of teenage outlaws set out on a brutal, seemingly random killing spree across the San Gabriel Valley, igniting the ire of the Los Angeles citizens. Sheriff James Barton wrestles with a rapidly escalating crime rate and a populace that demands more from their corrupt, do-nothing legal system as the bodies continue to pile up.

Lonesome Jim Barkley had once been a town-taming law man. Now he was a man with a reward on his head, wanted for robbery and murder. The banker, Tade Wardow, knows this and thinks he can turn it to his advantage in a way that will also make Barkley money. Yet, for Barkley, there is another consideration, one more urgent than robbing Wardow's bank.

Earl Webb's telegram to General William Harding said it all: “Located John Fenner here using alias John Steen. Have hint he is planning Pensacola train robbery. Will try to pick him up before he leaves here. Please send requisition warrant at once.” That is, it said everything except the harrowing task of getting John Fenner back to Texas.

Brad Kelly planned for weeks, set everything carefully in place. Then, he hit the Pioneer State Bank for $53,000. Will he kill to keep it?

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?

Was wäre, wenn... Jeremiah Cotton und Philippa Decker schon im 19. Jahrhundert gelebt hätten? Dem Jahrhundert des Goldrausches, des amerikanischen Bürgerkriegs und des Eisenbahnbaus? Cotton geht seinem Dienst als einfacher Streifenpolizist in New York nach. Gleichzeitig findet die Pinkerton-Agentin Philippa Decker heraus, dass eine Reederei chinesische Arbeiter, die für die Eisenbahn angeworben werden, zum Schmuggeln von Rohopium benutzt.

One of Humboldt's well-known horse breeders is brutally murdered, then left to burn in his barn along with his prized stallions. A Jack Logan client has been accused of the murder and Carson has been called in to investigate. However, getting to the truth is proving to be a real challenge. It seems no one, not even the accused, is capable of telling the truth. Greed, lust, infidelity, half-truths, and the Memphis Mafia all seem to be involved - somehow. Sorting out the pieces and finding the real murderer will be a monumental task.

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.