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"The great state of Texas is a land of opportunity. For outlaws. And horse thieves. And cattle rustlers. Not to mention bank robbers, train robbers, and anything-that-ain't-nailed-down robbers. The state's governor, Richard B. Hubbard, is at the end of his rope. He wants to clean up Texas once and for all--and he's desperate enough to try something crazy: hire a man who can do what the Texas Rangers can't. A man not tied down by wife or children....
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Joanna Brady mysteries volume 2
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Seattle investigator J. P. Beaumont is working a series of murders in which six young women have been wrapped in tarps, doused with gasoline, and set on fire. Their charred remains have been scattered around various dump sites, creating a grisly pattern of death across western Washington.
3) Eureka
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The yearis 1941, Verna Wilensky has been electrocuted in her bathtub, leaving a lower-middle-class life, no survivors and a bank account packed with almost a hundred thousand dollars. Mysterious checks have consistently come to her for more than twenty years, most drawn from a bank in San Pietro, a town once known as Eureka.
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Sarah Allen burned a lot of bridges when she left her hometown. But when her husband is murdered and his associates come looking for her and her daughter, Sarah has only one place left to go-Wind Canyon, Wyoming. She runs right into Jackson Raines, the man she spurned in high school, who has now become a successful ranch owner. She expects anger from him, but instead she gets mercy...
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"In the small, sleepy town of Moab, Florida, folks live for ice cream socials, Jackie Robinson, and the local paper's weekly gossip column. For decades Sheriff Winston Browne has watched over Moab with a generous eye, and by now he's used to handling the daily dramas that keep life mildly interesting for the town's quirky residents. But just after Winston receives some terrible, life-altering news, a feisty little girl with mysterious origins shows...
9) Lost hills
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Eve Ronin novels volume 1
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"A video of Deputy Eve Ronin’s off-duty arrest of an abusive movie star goes viral, turning her into a popular hero at a time when the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department is plagued by scandal. The sheriff, desperate for more positive press, makes Eve the youngest female homicide detective in the department’s history. Eve... and her burned-out, soon-to-retire partner are called to the blood-splattered home of a missing single mother and...
10) To the bone
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David Wolf volume 7
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Chief Detective David Wolf’s son has a new girlfriend, and when she discovers her father—a well known man in ancient fossils trade circles—has been murdered, she and the rest of her shattered family turn to Wolf to bring them justice.
With the help of a small town sheriff and a retired police dog named Jet, Wolf follows the clues to a dig site in western Colorado, where secrets have been entombed for eons, and people are dying to keep them...
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2021.
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"It starts with an abusive, drunken young scoundrel who resists arrest, holds a barmaid hostage, and gets what he deserves from the blazing .44 of Sheriff Caleb York. The New Mexico lawman doesn't regret taking such deadly action, but the late youth's powerful mother, cattle baroness Victoria Drummond, seems bound to feel differently. To York's surprise, Victoria takes the news with stoic resignation - all she asks of him is a favor: help her convince...
12) Creed's law
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Texas anthem series volume 2
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2000
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Billy Anthem is a long way from Texas when he comes to the Pacific Coast town of Calamity Bay. On his way north, Billy survives a bushwhacking and ends up deputized by a sheriff who needs someone to trust. For a decade, calamity Bay has been in the grip of one man. Following a brutal murder, Noah creed and his sons want a murder suspect hanged - no matter what the evidence shows, no matter what the law says.
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Manny Rivera volume 7
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2017
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A member of "The Keepers of Order," an armed militia determined to hunt down the culprits who have been poaching bighorn sheep, is shot while patrolling one of the remotest parts of Utah's rugged backcountry. In pursuit of the shooter, Deputy Sheriff Manny Rivera stumbles upon another crime linked to the activities of a Ute medicine man who roamed those same lands in the early 1700s. With the help of a smart, young anthropologist, Rivera plunges into...
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Manny Rivera volume 5
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2015
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In the quiet library of his luxurious penthouse apartment in Washington, DC, Wallace Lamont, Chairman of a large industrial conglomerate, plots the defeat of Congressman Matthew Monroe in the upcoming primary election. The Congressman, a staunch environmentalist from southern Utah, is blocking a large contract that Lamont's firm desperately needs. Lamont's plan is to resurrect the Sagebrush Rebellion of the 1980s, a time when the hard working citizens...
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Manny Rivera volume 8
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2015
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A member of "The Keepers of Order," an armed militia determined to hunt down the culprits who have been poaching bighorn sheep, is shot while patrolling one of the remotest parts of Utah's rugged backcountry. In pursuit of the shooter, Deputy Sheriff Manny Rivera stumbles upon another crime linked to the activities of a Ute medicine man who roamed those same lands in the early 1700s. With the help of a smart, young anthropologist, Rivera plunges into...
16) Bone canyon
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Eve Ronin novels volume 2
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"A catastrophic wildfire scorches the Santa Monica Mountains, exposing the charred remains of a woman who disappeared years ago. The investigation is assigned to Eve Ronin, the youngest homicide detective in the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, a position that forces her to prove herself again and again. Eve tirelessly digs into the past, unearthing dark secrets that reveal nothing about the case is as it seems. With almost no one she can...
17) Fortune's cookie
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Bly Family Brynn volume 1
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2023
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Detective Brynn Bly has lunch with her best friend, Penny, at a Chinese restaurant and gets two fortunes in her cookie. Soon enough, she meets the tall, dark stranger, but is he also the devil who will wreak havoc on her soul? Rafe Cutter is a security expert hired by the sheriff of Columbine County to fix the hacking problem in his IT system. The sheriff has a little cupid in him and sets up a lunch, only it'll just be Brynn and Rafe, because Davey...
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1996
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The only eyewitness to the execution of a young couple by drug smugglers is a beautiful young woman whose pursuit of freedom has turned into a death sentence. Now, a Sheriff's lone quest for justice is about to uncover secrets so deadly they will rock this Texas border town to the ground and place him directly in the line of fire.
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David Wolf volume 15
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2021
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When a sheriff's son is found dead in a neighboring county to the south, clues show foul-play. Led by the same sheriff now doubling as a father hell-bent on vengeance, the investigation turns violent, pushing the local district attorney north to Rocky Points for help. They need somebody with an outside perspective to lead the investigation, and Chief Detective David Wolf is just their man.
Wolf has no pending investigations and there's a fellow man...
20) Fatal Error
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Alison Reynolds mysteries volume 6
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2011
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After successfully completing training at the Arizona Police Academy, Ali Reynolds is furloughed by the Yavapai County Sheriffś Department because of budget cuts. So when Brenda Riley, a former TV journalist gone to seed, asks for help in finding her online fiancé, Ali is game.