A body burns in the high desert hills. A boy walks into a fire station, pale with the shock of a grisly discovery. A middle school teacher worries when her colleague is late for work. By day's end, when the body is identified as local math teacher Adam Merkel, a small Nevada town will be rocked to its core by a brutal and calculated murder. Adam Merkel left a university professorship in Reno to teach middle school in Lovelock seven months before he...

Chicago Journalist Thea Barlow Digs Deep to Unravel the Mystery of a Legendary Wyoming Brothel and Uncovers a Modern-Day Murderer
Thea Barlow, Chicago native and newly minted editor for the city's Western True Adventures Magazine, is on her first assignment: prove her worth by unravelling the mysteries of Halfway Halt, a defunct brothel in Hijax, Wyoming.
Upon arrival in Hijax, Thea is met with hostility from the town's "old lions." Assuming...

A doctor with a taste for adventure. A doomed mountain vacation with his family. In the midst of a million acres of wilderness, Patrick Flint is about to discover that not everybody loves the new town doc.All Patrick Flint wants is a peaceful getaway in the Wyoming mountains for his rare days off. He's grown weary of the bicentennial celebrations, the angry families of patients, the rash of campers coming down from the mountains high on speed, and...

Mysterious footprints in the forest. A shot in the dark. A dead man in a forest clearing. Tye Caine tries to help out a neighbor but is sucked into a mystery from the past. At the same time, he tries to find out who has been hiding on his property. Visions of dead people still haunt his dreams, and he doesn't know why. It seems like he's moving close to an answer, but does he really want to know? If you stayed up too late reading Wild Mind, if you...

A train robbery gone awry catapults a gang of outlaws into Idyllwild where they settle on a new target. In the tiny mountainside town of Idyllwild, California, as yet the Wild West of 1912, Loveda Brown's guests stir up a perfect storm. One has a secret, one has a plan, and one has a grudge worth killing over. As she unravels the truth, Loveda must betray the people she loves in order to protect them, and nothing less than a local legend can light...

The #1 New York Times–bestselling author shares the origin story of his infamous game warden character, Joe Pickett, as he investigates a local poachers attack. Since his first appearance in Open Season, Wyoming gamekeeper Joe Pickett has solved all sorts of mysteries. But now his daughter, Sheridan, would like to solve the mystery that is her father . . . The Pickett family is gathered around the table for Thanksgiving dinner when they're...

The year is 1910. Nate Cooper is an old-school cowboy. He sees the change brought by the turn of the century-horses giving way to motorcars, his girlfriend marrying his best friend, and his nemesis running for governor-and reckons none of it to be good. The west is being tamed, and with progress, some things are lost. But people? They tend to stay the same. Even after spending nearly thirty years in a Montana prison for a wrongful murder conviction,...

Chicago Journalist Investigates Wyoming's Old Rural Legends and Stumbles Into Modern-Day Murder and Mayhem in This Box Set Filled with Humor, History, and One Mean-Spirited Chicken. ALL THE OLD LIONS: On her first assignment-unravel the mystery of Halfway Halt, a defunct whorehouse in Hijax, Wyoming-Thea must ply townsfolk who don't want their secrets revealed, and finger a murderer...if she wants to survive. FROGSKIN AND MUTTONFAT: In Wyoming...

Death and Gold Haunt Thea's Search for Max in Death by Doodlebug, a Cozy Mystery from Carol Caverly. --Present Day, Garnet Pass, Wyoming-- When Thea Barlow is left at the altar by her fiancé, Max, everyone, including the police, thinks she's been jilted. Thea's the only one who believes in Max, and she's determined to discover what happened to him. A note left on her door sends Thea and her best friend searching for a gold dredge known as a "doodlebug." The...

A suspense-filled western noir thriller set in California's Sierra mountains. Tommy Smith, former sniper and Army combat veteran, wants nothing more than to be left alone, to raise his young family with his deputy-sheriff wife, Sarah, as they run a wilderness outfitting business in the eastern Sierra ranching country, where they grew up. A mass breakout at Folsom Prison shatters their mountain idyll and brings back the PTSD that Tommy hoped he'd...