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1) Noose
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Joe Noose novels volume 1
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Introducing a bold new Western series from Eric Red, the acclaimed author and writer of such blockbuster films as The Hitcher, Near Dark, and Blue Steel.
MEET JOE NOOSE. A GOOD BOUNTY HUNTER WITH A BAD ATTITUDE.
In the cutthroat world of bounty hunters, Joe Noose is as honest as they come. Which isn't saying much. Just look at his less-than-honest colleagues. They framed Joe for a murder they committed. They made sure Joe's face wound up on a wanted...
2) Fearless
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Weaving a thread of suspense into her trademark powerful storytelling, #1 New York Times bestselling author Fern Michaels delivers a compelling new novel about a woman who learns that her new life may not be all it appears . . .
Anna Campbell is ready to take her first tentative steps back into the world after widowhood. On a singles cruise, she meets divorced professor Ryan Robertson, and the sparks between them are undeniable. Back home in West...
3) Kill-box
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A detective tail on a duplicitous spouse leads to murder, explosive secrets, and atomic-age paranoia in 1950s Manhattan. Lawrence Lariar was one the most popular cartoonists of the twentieth century. But from the 1940s through the 1960s, he also crafted a line of lean and mean detective and mystery novels under his own name as well as the pseudonyms Michael Stark, Adam Knight, Michael Lawrence, and Marston La France. Lariar now gets his due as a leading...
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First in a series: A comic book artist is drawn into an elaborate game of murder when he visits an isolated country estate in Woodstock. Lawrence Lariar was one the most popular cartoonists of the twentieth century. But from the 1940s through the 1960s, he also crafted a line of lean and mean detective and mystery novels under his own name as well as the pseudonyms Michael Stark, Adam Knight, Michael Lawrence, and Marston La France. Lariar now gets...
5) Belonging
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She's grieving her lost love. He's searching for his lost niece. Can attraction overcome family loyalty in this enemies to lovers romance? Hiding away in a tiny Yorkshire village, Harriet is grieving for her lost love. His family won't talk to her and she can't move on from from his death. All this changes when his daughter, Niamh, turns up on her doorstep, needing a sympathetic ear.Tim thinks Harriet broke up his sister's marriage all those years...
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Scotland Yard detective Ian Rutledge is assigned one of the most baffling investigations of his career-a cold murder case with an unidentified victim and a cold trail with few clues to follow.
Chief Inspector Brian Leslie, a respected colleague of Ian Rutledge's, is sent to Avebury, a village set inside a great prehistoric stone circle not far from Stonehenge. A young woman has been murdered next to a mysterious, hooded, figure-like stone, but...
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Haven Point volume 11
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"A lakeside summer, a new beginning…
Samantha Fremont has been struggling with the weight of her mother’s expectations for years. But now that her mother has passed away, it’s time for Sam to be bold and finally establish the fashion design business she’s always dreamed of. And the perfect opportunity has fallen into her lap. Her friend’s getting married and has asked Sam to create her wedding dress…if only she can avoid the bride’s...
8) Blackwater
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Jack Rogan decides to return home from years of gambling on the Mississippi riverboats, but he makes a big mistake when taking what he thinks is a shorter, faster route back to Texas. The Louisiana swamplands are teeming with all sorts of dangers, not least Gaston Savoy and Homer Lamb, and their kin from the secluded waterside community of Whistler. Captured and stripped of his money, his guns and his fine sorrel mare, Jack is compromised into making...
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When Wesley Sumner is released from prison, he and cellmate Corey Madison go in search of work as ranch hands. But their new-found freedom is short-lived when they are arrested for a crime they did not commit. And when Corey dies after a savage beating from their captors, Sumner vows revenge. However, his plans are thwarted when he learns that the two deputies who beat Corey have lost their jobs and are now themselves on the run from the law. And...
10) Retribution
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Chet Hallam stayed in Texas when his family moved to Kansas. Five years passed before he paid them a visit and, when he reached Spruce Bend, bad news awaited him. His father, the county sheriff, had left town one morning and never returned. Chet set out to find him, but local trouble intervened, took up his attention and his time. Resolute, he faced flying lead, fought back with no regard for his own life, and slowly gained the initiative from a criminal...
11) Blood red star
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Cort Keller and his gang are on the run after a successful robbery, but a posse led by Marshal Nate Whitman, aided by his Crow Indian friend Little Hawk, are closing in on them. Cort goes to the house of his cousin Coy Brandon, ex-outlaw turned family man, for help. But when Coy is gunned down, and the Keller gang starts to fall apart, Cort is forced to reconsider his way of life if he is to survive.
12) Cross of iron
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It was the shooting of an innocent bystander that forced Iron Matt Devlin to give up his profession as a bounty hunter. The harrowing occurrence led to him taking up the bible and becoming a preacher serving the Arizona town of Firewall. All went well until a gang of robbers led by the infamous Jack Patch took shelter in the church during a storm. They left having despoiled the house of God and its representative. Far worse was the killing of Matt's...
13) Long rider
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Wes Stretton has ridden a long way to gain vengeance on Yoakum, who he holds responsible for killing his friend. The trail takes him to the town of Buckstrap where he meets the enigmatic Lana Flushing and walks straight into a range war between rival ranches: the Bar Seven and the Sawtooth. But someone knows of his arrival and is out to bushwhack him. Then the foreman of the Sawtooth is shot. But was Stretton the intended target? And was Yoakum responsible?...
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His name was Billy Swift and he wore a brace of .45s, grips inlaid with silver lightning bolts. They said he was dead, but now he's back? For five years it was thought that the gunfighter known as 'Lightning Swift' was dead. He'd just crawled off into the desert to die after being wounded in a gun battle with Harley Mossop and his gang. How wrong everyone was. Someone shot the man who saved his life, so the Lightning Colts have been strapped back...
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Josh Ford was the best man the Marshal Service had, so when the Governor of Montana needed someone to look into the disappearance of wagon trains in the Bitterroots, Ford was the man they chose. What he found was a brutal autocrat who ruled with such terror, the like of which had never been seen by Ford. From Helena, Montana, to the Bitterroot Mountains, then on to Seattle, Ford fights for his life and the lives of others against a maniac and his...
16) Snake oil
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Gambler Jack Morton is persuaded to invest his winnings in buying the wagon and stock of a snake oil conman, and so reinvents himself as Professor Cornelius Murgatroyd's, purveyor of a miraculous cure for rheumatism, travelling across the West making a precarious living from the gullibility of others. But one day his life is disrupted when he goes to the aid of a dying woman whose wagon has been attacked by robbers, and makes a promise that he will...
17) Blood River
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Gold was becoming harder to find as panners by the hundreds swarmed to any site where even the smallest nugget was found. One mine was still operating north of the Sierra Nevadas. And that was the problem. Transporting the gold down narrow, sandy, and rocky trails, wagons were easy targets for outlaws. The Pinkerton Agency was charged with the security of a large haul of gold. But they had a daring plan. If it worked, 500 gold bars would make it East....
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The notorious bounty hunter known as Iron Eyes is tracking down his errant sweetheart 'Squirrel' Sally, and his quest takes him all the way from Mexico to the forests of the West. However, unbeknown to him, unscrupulous men, envious of his success as a bounty hunter, are pursuing him with a view to a kill. Iron Eyes is unwittingly riding into the jaws of Hell itself and will not survive unless divine intervention comes to his rescue. The problem is,...
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When bounty hunter Gustavus Greeley rides into Elk Horn, he learns that Marshal Detmeyer has failed to return from investigating a shooting at the nearby Baker farm. Going out to the farm, Greeley finds Mr and Mrs Baker and their son dead, Detmeyer badly wounded, and their two daughters missing. Arrows have been used, making it look like an Indian attack, and the girls are presumed to have been taken captive by Apaches. But are the Apaches really...
20) Hunting Harker
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When Ollie Harker's wagon fails to arrive at Logjam Creek, his employer, JD Cookson, hires Tom Parry and Durango Finch to find it. It appears that Harker has been killed by hostile Indians, but when a murder in the town is linked to him, Harker's mission is revealed to be something more than a routine freighting operation. The trail leads Parry and Finch to an illegal whiskey-running operation in which Monson, Logjam Creek's saloon owner, is implicated....
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