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This new collection of mystery stories set in New Orleans features O'Neil De Noux's recurring characters - 1940s Private-eye Lucien Caye, 1890s NOPD Detective Jacques Dugas as well as NOPD Homicide Detectives John Raven Beau, and Dino LaStanza (he's back!). There are also a couple ghost stories, a maniac story, the gold bug of Jean Lafitte, a man with moon hands and a future-cop story with a guy named Max.

Even the toughest and most cunning lawman in Texas has his limits. With nothing to go on but five bloody bodies, a cracked safe, and an empty jail, Dell works the fringe of his sleepy western town - the forgotten, the invisible, those who often see without being seen. The more he learns, though, the more he wishes he could forget. In search of the truth, Dell finds himself pulled into a dark world of murder, deception, and brutality the likes of which he never imagined.

An exquisite collection of expanse poetry.

Gil Slatter's quick on the draw and has a head for running a ranch - but he's also a lonely man with nothing more than a cot in the bunkhouse at the TXY Ranch to call home. When the ranch's foreman drops dead of a heart attack and the owner picks Gil to take his place, his entire world turns upside down. One day life is simple. The next he's running the entire outfit.

All he wants is a job as a ranch foreman. He'd tried in Montana, but ended up in a gunfight with a pair of ugly-looking brothers over a horse. Leaving one dead and the other swearing revenge, Norm figures it'd be wise to make himself scarce. He heads south, to Nebraska. Instead of work, though, he finds something he never expected--a partner. Edith is a beautiful young woman with a sordid past of her own.

You're sitting at a bar, restaurant, or some other public hangout. You can't help it, but you overhear a conversation. The content catches your ear. It's someone's personal story, struggle, and woes. Not to be a Nosey Nelly, you try to overhear this guy telling his table of buddies a horrendous tale of love, life, and betrayal. It sounds like he went through an ordeal. It's free gossip. It's juicy news. It's also comforting to hear you weren't alone in your nasty blowout relationship.

When they crossed Reuben Cole, they signed their death warrant. Reuben Cole is not the sort of man they should have messed with, and breaking into his home proves a bad idea. After his friend, Sheriff Roose, hunts down the robbers who took everything of value, the reasons for the burglary are revealed and a crooked railroad magnate's ambitions exposed. Cole's enemies are about to learn that the ways of the Old West, despite it being a new century, are not quite over yet.

Vince was a mustanger with a solitary camp high in the Rusty Hills where he worked his operation alone. Then on a trip back from selling some mustangs, he came across Molly....

Twin brothers Andrew and Jackson Franks have lived and worked under the iron fist of their father, Prior, for as long as they can remember. But when a petty household argument turns violent, and Prior shoots and kills their mother before turning the gun upon himself, the boys are left with nothing but each other and the family's hardscrabble South Texas ranch.

Reuben Cole and Sterling Roose are firm friends. Working for the United States Army as scouts, they are true professionals at what they do. But when a bank robbery goes wrong and a young woman asks for help, Sterling cannot resist. Cole is there beside him, forever his friend and ally, but love has found its way into Sterling’s soul, and it just might be the most dangerous opponent he has ever come up against.

A drunken plan to make some quick money with two friends landed drifter Whit Ralston in the Yuma Territorial Prison - the worst prison in Arizona. Now he's doing hard time in the inferno the inmates call the Hell Hole, counting the days until his release. He's vowed never to do anything so stupid again, but that becomes a hard promise to keep when his crazy cellmate starts talking about a load of stolen gold stashed up in the mountains.

Sergeant Stryker and his elite commandos have been tasked with an impossible mission, one that few might escape from alive. The battlefield is the alien world of Spascia and the enemy an entire Legions of Biomech warriors and their terrifying war machines. The unrelenting horde is just hours from shattering the last Alliance lines, and defeat here might spell the end of the war.

Charlie Brackeen owns the big ranch that takes up the entire north end of drought-stricken Callie County. When he pushes his B-Bar-M cattle south of their own range, it’s no mistake - it’s a hostile takeover, enforced by Sheriff Alex Woodbridge, the tough, one-eyed former Texas Ranger who’s in Brackeen’s pocket. They want the small ranchers leaderless and isolated so they can be picked off one by one and forced to sell their land. They just didn’t count on Jed Mahan.

When an upstart band of students takes to the streets in a hot local election, the stakes are clear enough. A vacant seat on the city council. Industry versus the environment. The timeless pursuit of power. Campaigning in the inner city, the electioneers prove capable, enhancing their candidate's chances when few thought they could. But deep forces churn, and as the election unfolds, the twin evils of race and class threaten to devour everyone - the good guys and the bad. An old secret told to damning effect. A political operative unhinged.

Unemployed ranch hand Jim Dailey only wants some matches when he rides up to a store in Willow Grove, Kansas, on a dusty, fateful summer day. What he gets when he steps inside, though, is anything but. Faced with two bloodthirsty outlaws and no other choice, Dailey pulls his six-shooter... and sets himself on a long and twisted path of triumph and tragedy.

On his way south to find his brother's murderer, Gus Ritter finds himself falling in love. But love alone cannot remove the dangers surrounding them on the road to El Paso. Attacks from marauding Comanches bring home the violent reality of their journey. Soon, all players of this drama are brought together for one, final shootout, and the truth is finally revealed. But in the end, can any one of them come out alive?

Tending to a wounded stranger, Cathy has no idea what danger it will bring to her peaceful life. The man belongs to a gang of ruthless bank robbers, who attempted to raid the National Bank in the small town of Bethlehem. Unfortunately for them, Reuben Cole and Sterling Roose are also in town, and now the survivors are on the run. But to bring the stragglers back, Cole will need to look deep into his soul and answer some serious questions about himself.

Reuben Cole has seen it all. Now retired, he spends his days on a rocking chair in the shade, watching the world pass by. But when Miss Amelie reports an intruder, something crawls up his back like ice splinters forming on a window pane. After young sheriff Stone doesn’t come back after investigating the report, Cole knows he must once more strap on his six-gun and bring the guilty to justice. But he is not a young man anymore. Does he still have what it takes to face down cold-blooded killers and live to tell the tale?

Business mogul, brash, politically-incorrect, and now president of the United States, Donald Trump seems to have it all. Love him or hate him, there's no denying he got this far because of his unique personality and unwilling, almost unreasonable, drive to succeed.

A modern-day Canadian cowboy encounters other-worldly monsters near the Yellowhead Highway in remote Alberta with his only real defense: a camera phone.