Modern Western Mysteries

It’s John Wayne Orkney’s first week as a cop. There’s already one dead body, two old flames, a half-feral foster brother, and a murder suspect who once slept with him… and recently ran over the police chief with a mobility scooter. Welcome back to Camelot, West Virginia—a down-but-not-out Appalachian town full of ghosts, grudges, and folks trying to claw their way back. Some with magic. Some with moonshine. John Wayne never wanted a badge. He’s already juggling EMT runs, trying to launch a business, and keeping tabs on his three wild brothers. Then there’s Gallagher Lance—...

A mysterious old mining town from the old west draws the attention of a police squad while a series of murders and bank robberies take place. Sergeant Payne decides to send in Cole Parker, his top homicide investigator. Cole becomes informed of the town's wild west history, and he makes some shocking discoveries. But uncovering a secret passageway, hidden hatchways, and an underground tunnel is just the beginning. He begins to realize that the bank robbers have more of a history than he imagined, and he soon finds himself in dreadful danger.

The much-acclaimed BookTok sensation from Olivie Blake, The Atlas Six is now newly revised, edited with additional content, and available on audio for the first time. The tag #theatlassix already has millions of views on TikTok A dark academic debut fantasy with an established cult...

In C.J. Box's Badlands, the town of Grimstad used to be a place people came from but were never headed to. Now it’s the oil capital of North Dakota. With oil comes money, with money comes drugs, and with drugs come the dirtiest criminals Grimstad’s new deputy sheriff Cassie Dewell has ever...

A child vanishes, and the silence that follows feels deliberate. In Red Willow County, former lawman and private investigator Cole Maddox knows the land the way some men know scripture. He knows its back roads, its forgotten places, and the way winter can erase more than tracks. He also knows what it is to live with a question that never loosens its grip. When a new case pulls him toward a burned-out site called Juniper Ridge, the answers come slowly, and not without cost. People hesitate. Records resist. The past begins to surface in ways that feel uncomfortably personal, as if the land ...

When someone dressed in a ninja costume was first seen lurking around homes in Big Lake, everyone assumed it was some kind of teenage mischief. Things escalated when the ninja was spotted peeking in people’s windows. Sheriff Weber and his deputies are on the lookout for the mysterious prankster, and more sightings seem to come in every day. Things take a deadly turn when the ninja singles out a respected local businessman and attacks him with a sword. More attacks follow and soon the whole town is on edge, locking their doors and loading their guns. Who would want to hurt the nicest man ...

On a sunny May morning in 1998 in Cortez, Colorado, three desperados in a stolen truck opened fire on the town cop, shooting him 20 times; then they blasted their way past dozens of police cars and disappeared into 10,000 square miles of the harshest wilderness terrain on the North American continent. Self-trained survivalists, the outlaws eluded the most sophisticated law enforcement technology on the planet and a pursuit force that represented more than 75 local, state, and federal police agencies with dozens of SWAT teams, U.S. Army Special Forces....

ACT OF CONTRITION is an historical novel and modern western that pulls the reader back and forth along a 70-year timeline, spanning from the World War II battlefields of North Africa to the badlands of present day Northeastern New Mexico and Southern Colorado. Trent Carter is a sixty-four-year-old, washed up veteran and retired cop recuperating from injuries physical, mental, and emotional. He blames himself for his wife’s death, drinks and smokes too much, lives with his grown daughter and a mangy orange tomcat, and is trying to avoid the advances of an attractive local widow. He is ...

This program features multicast narration. "This audiobook...is fully realized by a talented ensemble of narrators." —AudioFile on The Atlas Six The Atlas Complex marks the much-anticipated, heart-shattering conclusion in Olivie Blake's trilogy that began with the New York Times bestselling...

A herd of wild horses that shouldn’t exist. A scientist who dies before he can tell the truth. And a desert canyon hiding a billion-dollar lie. When equine behavior specialist Sofi Reyes is recruited to investigate a mysterious herd of Colonial Spanish mustangs discovered deep in the Davis Mountains, the find sounds like a miracle for wildlife conservation. A “ghost herd” untouched for a century could rewrite Texas history. But Sofi doesn’t believe in miracles. She believes in evidence. The horses’ behavior is wrong. Their movements are wrong. Even the soil beneath their hooves ...

The Atlas Paradox is the long-awaited sequel to Olivie Blake's New York Times bestselling dark academic sensation The Atlas Six—guaranteed to have even more yearning, backstabbing, betrayal, and chaos. Six magicians were presented with the opportunity of a lifetime. Five are now members of the...

Ty Dawson, now the sheriff of Oregon's Meriwether County, is ready to put a trying year behind him, but he's afforded no such luck. In a country still coming to grips with the Vietnam War, Watergate, and Charles Manson, Ty's neck of the woods isn't safe from the turmoil-especially when a commune of young so-called hippies springs up out of nowhere . . .

“A full cast of narrators, including the author, delivers this enchanting collection of short stories about love, magic, and betrayal.”—AudioFile This program features multicast narration. From the New York Times bestselling author of The Atlas Six comes Januaries, a stunning collection of...

The story of Gaiatri Singh: FBI-agent, Cowgirl, and Indian.

While attempting to adjusts from the big city to a small rural country town and trying to save a declining football program after the deaths of three of their football players, Andrew Hanson uncovers several clues which aids his father, Assistance Police Chief Scott Hanson, in solving several murders that has devastated the small town of Clarksville, Arizona. It’s a modern day western with all the elements: cowboys, Indians, horses, rodeos, a upstanding hero (Andrew), a pure but hurting heroine (Shayla), criminals, lawmen, gunfire, coyotes and mountain lions, bears, etc. But it also has ...

The vicious Mexican cartel war boils over into the Big Bend in the explosive new novel from the author of The Far Empty and High White Sun. In the Mexican borderlands, a busload of student protesters is gunned down in broad daylight, a violent act blamed on the Nemesio cartel. But its aging...

Every instinct tells him to run. Every memory tells him he can’t. Special Agent Daniel Stansfield is ready for a change. Burnt out and defeated by the job, it’s his last day with the FBI. But before he can turn in his badge, he’s summoned back to Denver, the city he ran from four years ago...

The Kiahawks, a mysterious and isolated warrior nation were defeated by the United States Army in the late 1800’s and forced onto a reservation at the base of Red Sky Mountain. Neglected by the government who put them there over a century and a half ago, and shunned by the local ranching community, the tribe struggles with financial poverty and cultural depression until the J-Bar-S ranch is built and the owners hire Kiahawks to work it. Resentment fills the hearts of the people of Lake Shanoha and their dislike for the tribe grows to outright hatred. After three teenagers from town ...

Kihawk Volume 2. This story hits the ground running right where volume one ends! After performing the brutal Kobani ritual, the Kiahawk elders resurrect their most powerful warrior chief Winter Wolf, who prepares for an all-out battle against a modern-day army. FBI agent Kirk Wallace arrives in Lake Shanoha to investigate several murders, both in town and on the reservation, where supernatural events test his steadfast grasp of reality. Heartbroken by the current state of the Kiahawk people, Winter Wolf uses his medicine to travel back in time in an attempt to change their fate, leaving it ...

BUSINESS AS USUAL They were victims once. Now, they’re the reckoning. When Jessica Monroe and Lucille Tanner cross paths, their shared pasts bind them in an unspoken alliance. Both women are survivors of violent crimes, determined never to be victims again. Though their methods differ, their mission is the same: to bring justice where the law has failed. With the backing of a powerful immigrant businessman who shares their scars and their cause, Jessica and Lou take aim at the predators that haunt their city. Operating under the radar, they deliver swift consequences to those who profit ...