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21) Bone rattle
Author
Series
Arliss Cutter novels volume 3
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Pulled from their duties to keep track of sequestered jurors in a high-profile trial involving a massive drug conspiracy, Arliss Cutter and deputy Lola Teariki realize that they are dealing with something much bigger, and darker, than a simple drug trial when the prosecuting attorney is murdered.
Author
Series
Andrea Oliver novels volume 2
Language
English
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Description
Who killed Emily Vaughn? The stunning new standalone thriller from international No. 1 bestseller Karin Slaughter. A girl with a secret ... Longbill Beach, 1982. Emily Vaughn gets ready for prom night, the highlight of any high school experience. But Emily has a secret. And by the end of the evening, she will be dead. A murder that remains a mystery ... Forty years later, Emily's murder remains unsolved. Her friends closed ranks, her family retreated...
Author
Series
Regan Merritt novels volume 2
Language
English
Description
"US Marshal Regan Merritt never bought the FBI's theory that her ten-year-old son's murder was tied to her job. Yet as leads went cold, she'd had to walk away from the marshals, the case, and her now ex-husband, Grant, who blamed her for Chase's death. After Regan receives a chilling voice mail from her former boss, Tommy, claiming new information about Chase's murder, she can no longer stay away from her pain-filled past. Especially when Tommy's...
Author
Series
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
"The Outside Gun concerns Dan Wade who once worked for Big Bill Krask's Double K Ranch, but left because there was little chance for advancement. Then a letter comes to Wade in Abilene, asking him to come back to Burnt Springs to help out with a problem. In Desert Rider everything changed for John Banning, marshal of Yucca Flats, when the Wind River gang held up the bank and shot young Davey Culwell, his nephew. The gang heads out into the desert...
Author
Series
Publisher
Pinnacle Books/Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Kosoma, Indian Territory. The outlaw Darby brothers have been sentenced to hang until dead. Witnessing the execution are Amelia Darby, sister of the condemned men, as well as U.S. Deputy Marshal Sam "Trusty" Dawson and Judge Gordon Hadesworth. After justice is served, Trusty hits the trail, escorting the judge--and begrudgingly, Amelia--back to Oklahoma. Ambushed en route, the judge is murdered and Amelia vanishes, leaving Trusty to believe she led...
26) Wild justice
Author
Series
Page Murdock novels volume 10
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
In the spring of 1896, after thirty years spent dispensing justice in Montana, Judge Harlan Blackthorne expires, leaving Deputy U.S. Marshal Page Murdock, his most steadfast officer, to escort his remains across the continent by rail. The long journey is interrupted from time to time by station stops for the public to pay its respects, and for various marching bands to serenade the departed with his favorite ballad, "After the Ball." This gives Murdock...
27) Sharpshooter
Author
Series
Byrnes family ranch westerns volume 12
Publisher
Pinnacle Books/Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"In the brutal, unforgiving wastes of the Arizona desert, Chet Byrnes built a cattle ranching empire with his bare hands, steel will, and a fast draw. As the U.S. marshal, he risks his life to bring law to a lawless land. When a new railroad route is planned to pass through Navajo territory, Chet fights to get the Indians a contract to supply the locomotives with coal. But the corrupt politicians in Tucson and D.C. have other ideas. The coal contract...
28) Stone cross
Author
Series
Arliss Cutter novels volume 2
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"In a remote Alaskan village, Deputy US Marshal Arliss Cutter searches for a stone-cold killer amid a hotbed of corruption, lies, and long-buried secrets ... Winter comes early to the rural native community of Stone Cross, Alaska--and so does hunting season. Caribou and moose are a major source of food through the long, dark months ahead. But Arliss Cutter has come here for a very different game. A federal judge is receiving death threats and refuses...
Author
Series
Publisher
Signet book
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"If things are quiet in the little town of Sweetwater, Marshal Fred Hitch sees no reason to make waves. But when Tyree Johnson shows up, Fred's relaxed nature is put to the test. At fifteen years old, Tyree is a tough-as-nails bounty hunter with no patience for anyone calling him "boy." He's come to apprehend a killer who escaped from Cheyenne and has been hiding in plain sight in Sweetwater. To save face and his town's good name, Fred must ride with...
Author
Series
Buck Trammel westerns volume 4
Publisher
Pinnacle Books/Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"'King' Charles Hagen is dead. The empire he carved out of Blackstone, Wyoming, by hook and by crook now lies in the hands of his children. Caleb Hagen has long stood in his father's shadow, ambitiously plotting, and ready to stake his claim. Young and impetuous Bart Hagen plans to expand the family legacy across the nation. Debora Hagen's ruthless nature believes the time has come for a queen to reign over the Hagen kingdom. Only Adam, their estranged...
32) The truth seeker
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Women are turning up dead. And Lisa O'Malley digging into a crime means trouble is soon to follow. She's a forensic pathologist and mysteries are her domain. She's not a believer, and her journey toward faith is a fascinating look at how a forensic pathologist views the Resurrection. Quinn has found loving her is easier than keeping her safe. Lisa O'Malley's found the killer, and now she's missing too.
Author
Series
Page Murdock novels volume 9
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
U.S. Deputy Page Murdock is ordered by federal judge Harlan A. Blackthorne to Cape Hell, Mexico, to verify a report that former Conferate captain Oscar Childress is raising an army to take over Mexico City --after which he intends to turn north to rekindle the Civil War. As Murdock heads south on a steam train through a murderous desert of a foreign land, with only a engineer who can't be trusted, and a fireman who has a few secrets of his own, he...
34) Night's landing
Author
Series
U.S. Marshals series volume 2
Publisher
MIRA Books
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
An obsessive killer, a witness with secrets and a deputy US marshal with her own dark demons collide in this gripping mystery. Dylan was only a child when he and his friend stumbled onto a crime scene deep in the woods. His friend was killed that night. And Bruce Forrester, the man who had chased the boys in the woods, disappeared. But he's never stopped looking for the only living witness. Ever since, Dylan and his family have been on the run. Deputy...
36) Winchester 1887
Author
Publisher
Pinnacle Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A boy in Texas waits for a Christmas present he chose from a Montgomery Ward catalog. The present, a brand new, lever action Winchester 1886 and a box of its big .50-caliber slugs, never makes it there. Instead, the rifle is caught up in a train robbery and starts a long and violent journey of its own--from the hands of a notorious, kill-crazy outlaw to an Apache renegade to a hardscrabble rancher and beyond. But while the prized Winchester is wandering...
Author
Series
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Cady Maddix survived a brutal upbringing--emotionally scarred but hardened--with a will for self-preservation. Hunting fugitives has given her life purpose and control. But when the Deputy US Marshal returns home to care for her Alzheimer's-stricken mother, a new case stirs old memories. Child killer Samuel Aldeen has broken out of a nearby facility for the criminally insane, and the authorities believe he was aided by accomplices, both inside and...
38) Shutter Island
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
In the summer of 1954, U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels comes to Shutter Island, home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane. Along with his partner, Chuck Aule, he sets out to find an escaped patient, a murderess named Rachel Solando, as a hurricane bears down upon them. But nothing at Ashecliffe Hospital is what it seems. Is he there to find a missing patient? Or has he been sent to look into rumors of Ashecliffe's radical approach to psychiatry?...
Author
Series
Eagles series volume 17
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
When he exposes a conspiracy of greed and corruption in Sorrento, Texas, acting U.S. Marshal Falcon MacCallister is sentenced to hang and plots his revenge on the three men who have taken over Sorrento, refusing to go to the gallows quietly.
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