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Dusty Richards
Dusty Richards is the author of more than fifty Western novels written under both his own name and pseudonyms. He spent his youth in Arizona and has worked as a rancher, auctioneer, rodeo announcer, and TV anchor. Since retiring, he and his wife Pat have done extensive research on the Old West, accumulating a vast library of historical books, diaries, and papers.
Praise for Dusty Richards
"Dusty Richards writes with the flavor of the real West." —Elmer Kelton —Washington Post Book World
"Gritty, fast-paced...a classic Western." —W. Michael Gear and Kathleen O'Neal Gear, authors of People of the Mist on The Lawless Land
"The author has a definite flair for details that put the reader right into the action." —Roundup Magazine
The Lawless Land
IN 1880, ARIZONA TERRITORY WAS AN OUTLAW'S PARADISE.
The gunmen rode hard along the border, pillaging and murdering their way to plunder and wealth. Guided by a powerful landowner and his vicious outlaw captain, the Border Gang was organized, mean, and armed to the teeth. In Prescott, the governor knew Arizona's sheriffs couldn't stop the chaos—and statehood was in peril. Then a military man named Bowen stepped in with a plan: find a few good men, call them marshals, and send them after the Border Gang.
THEN THE LAW STRUCK BACK WITH A MAN NAMED MAYES.
Sam T. Mayes, a soldier turned Denver detective, is Bowen's first and only choice. Now Mayes—accompanied by an alcoholic army scout, a wanted man, and a fierce native woman—must ride against the cutthroat gang. Mayes' job is to put the killers behind bars—or put them in the ground. His reward: the first-ever badge to be worn by a U.S. Territorial Marshal...
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Rancher's Law
SOME CALLED IT A CRIME.
In a hot Arizona river basin, three bodies sway from ropes—executed by their fellow ranchers. Hundreds of miles away, in the muddy streets of Fort Smith, Arkansas, a deputy marshal hunts down a killer, the first of eight outlaws on his list. Now, the manhunter is about to be chosen for a mission to Arizona Territory. Major Gerald Bowen wants Luther Haskell to go undercover and find the truth about what happened.
HE CALLED IT JUSTICE.
Bowen is on a campaign to bring law to the frontier, and Haskell is the right agent to investigate the deaths. But in Arizona, Luther comes up against a wall of silence and a family guarding a deadly secret. And in a land where some people get second chances and some don't get one at all, Luther Haskell must make his way through the good, the bad, and the damned—in pursuit of a cold-blooded killer with a plan of his own…
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Servant of the Law
BLINDED BY BLOOD
Bobby Budd rode out of Colorado with one killing behind him and dozens yet to go. From New Mexico to Indian Territory, Budd became one of a rootless army of half-crazed, half-drunk killers for hire—building an ugly legend as the Coyote Kid. Honest men paid the Kid to rid themselves of rustlers. Along the way, the innocent died, too.
WANTED BY THE LAW
Now, former Apache campaigner Major Gerald Bowen is bringing law to the land, hiring a few good frontier marshals and putting them on the bloody trail of the territory's worst outlaws. John Wesley Michaels is one of those lawmen—and the Kid is his quarry. But when Michaels gets to Arizona, he finds out he won't be working alone. A stubborn woman insists on riding at Michaels' side. Because she's met the Kid face-to-face. . .and she wants to be the one to gun him down.
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Montana Revenge
From Spur Award-Winning Author Dusty Richards
Herschel Baker left his life as a rancher to become sheriff of Yellowstone County, Montana. Only weeks into the job, he's about to find out what it means to bring the law to a lawless land...
It's up to Herschel to stop all forms of criminality—including the old vigilante justice that once ran the town. When the cowboy Billy Hanks is found hanging from a tree with the label HOSS STEELER pinned to his chest, the culprits must be caught whether or not the accusation is true.
With nothing to go on but a dead body, a misspelled note, and a wounded horse, Herschel refuses to look the other way. Someone's going to pay for this dirty deed. Someone found guilty by the right and proper letter of the law...
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Award-Winning SV Original Publications and #1 Amazon Bestsellers
The Heart Beneath the Badge by George T. Arnold
Winner of the 2024 Spur Award<br/
When Sheriff Heath Royal seeks relief for his tormented conscience by attending church services for the first time since his youth, he is beckoned to an empty seat by the wealthy, recently widowed Rebekka Korhenen Brando, and both are immediately, although unwittingly, stirred by an unintentional rekindling of the feelings that almost led to a marriage between them twenty-five years earlier.
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Lakota Cowboy by John Hafnor
2022 Will Rogers Medallion Award Winner
“In Lakota Cowboy the last open range cowboy and last Native American ride across the Little Big Horn into a world of surprise endings.” —BookLife
“This book provides a beautifully human touch to the story of two cultures intersecting at dramatically different times in their histories.”—South Dakota Magazine
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Song of the Horseman by Mark Warren
2022 Georgia Author of the Year Award
Literary Fiction Finalist
"...Warren’s prose is magnificently rendered; the kind of writing that makes the reader put down their book for a moment and marvel."—Judge: Zoe Fishman
Award-winning writer of Wyatt Earp, An American Odyssey, winner of the 2020 Will Rogers Medallion Award, a 2019 Spur Award Finalist and an “Editor’s Choice” by The Historical Novel Society
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Floating Moon by Robert Westbrook
Amazon #1 Bestseller in Native American Literature 2025
FLOATING MOON is a tale of murder, money, and secrets, as a memorable cast of characters search for what is real, and what is not in the bewitching enchantment of New Mexico.
"Fans of Hillerman will love this unique and quirky detective duo."
—Leslie Glass, bestselling author of Tracking Time
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Print Books
Last of the Autumn Rain by Diana Louise Webb
An engrossing tale of an uncanny and sometimes frightening life. —Kirkus Reviews
An unforgettable, tumultuous ride, Last of the Autumn Rain delivers an introspective and jaw-clenching tale, which not only rocks one’s moral compass, but invites a chilling question: in a world where the ground can literally fall out from under you, what else might be lurking beneath the surface?
"...this novel is an excellent read for fans of psychological thrillers." —Readers' Favorite
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King of Peru by Mark E. Scott
A Novel of Destiny and Delusion
Ex-Marine Matthew Obrodnick lives with two roommates in an apartment near campus in Oxford, Ohio. One is gentle and philosophical, the other aspires to be King of Peru. One is real, the other a figment of Matt’s imagination...
"Lovers of novels with a touch of history, mystery, dark humor, drama, and psychological thrills will find King of Peru by Mark E. Scott an enthralling read..." —Readers' Favorite
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Shielding the Fall by Nathan Powell
In the frozen skies over Europe, survival is never guaranteed. Walter Bennett, a young tail gunner from Michigan, flies with the crew of Easy, a B-24 Liberator in the 392nd Bomb Group. Each mission drives them into the heart of danger—flak tearing the skies, enemy fighters closing in, and the haunting truth that every flight could be their last. Through it all, Walter clings to his faith and the brotherhood forged in the air. ..
A story of survival, sacrifice, and faith in the final months of World War II.
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Sing to Me Billy the Kid by Frances Bonney Jenner
It's Wild West, Silver City, New Mexico, 1874. Almost 14, Billy can sing and dance better than anybody, but that won’t save his mother Catherine, who is deathly ill with consumption. When Catherine discovers Billy's plan to steal jewels to pay for medicine, she warns him that he’ll hang before he’s 21 if he doesn’t change. Guilt haunts Billy after her death. . .
Sing to Me Billy the Kid offers a new perspective on the famous outlaw. The call to fight injustice draws him powerfully into a web of destiny and a desire for redemption no outlaw can expect.
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E-Books
Tropical Doubts by David Myles Robinson
Some Honolulu lawyers called Pancho McMartin the best criminal defense attorney in the islands. He'd admit to being pretty damn good. But he was on a losing streak now―three guilty verdicts in a row―and his confidence was sinking fast. When one of his oldest friends, Giselle, was left comatose after surgery and her husband, Manny, pleaded with him to sue the doctors involved, Pancho couldn't find a way to avoid a new specialty: medical malpractice...
In Tropical Doubts, the third legal thriller from David Myles Robinson featuring colorful, fast-thinking Pancho McMartin, medical hijinks merge with murder as surprise twists build in this unpredictable courtroom drama.
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Leeward Run by Jonathan Herbert
A South Florida bank robbery sparks a cross-country manhunt. With the FBI closing in, Imus Lee is determined to find his estranged daughter living in Los Angeles.
On his trail is Butch Sands—relentless and unyielding. But when he uncovers a shocking truth—that the fugitive is dying—the chase hurtles toward a final collision where family, redemption, and survival all hang in the balance.
“...Leeward Run is an exciting breeze to read with its combination of action and heartfelt emotion.” —Readers’ Favorite 5-star review
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The Brotherhood of Barnabas by B. W. Jackson
In The Brotherhood of Barnabas, Book Two of The Rise of Lazarus, Aaron wanders even deeper into the hidden workings of the society of Lazarus. But just when Professor Freeman begins to uncover another eerie mystery, he suddenly goes missing, leaving Aaron and Grandpa Moshe and Miriam on a desperate mission to track him down. Along the way, they encounter the ancient origins of the Brotherhood of Barnabas and the rise of an enemy organization known as the Crimson Ribbon. Dubious clues lure them into a precarious adventure to the Old World, amidst the living history of Lazarus and Tabitha. But their quest is upended when a secret from the past is resurrected, challenging everything they thought they knew about the legend of Lazarus.
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DENIAL by Keith Ablow
BETWEEN PLEASURE AND PAIN,
DANGER AND DESIRE, LIFE AND DEATH, THERE IS...
DENIAL
Dr. Frank Clevenger is a forensic psychiatrist who hates authority, fears intimacy, uses sex as an anesthetic, is tortured by his professional mistakes and can’t free himself from the shadows of a brutal, alcoholic father and an absent, unfeeling mother. But it is precisely this injured psyche that allows him to understand the deranged behavior of the mental and emotional outcasts who cross his professional path...
"SPELLBINDING AND SHOCKING" —Nelson DeMille
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Audiobooks
Nine Princes in Amber by Roger Zelazny
Amber burns in Corwin's blood. Exiled on Shadow Earth for centuries, the prince is about to return to Amber to make a mad and desperate rush upon the throne. From Arden to the Pattern deep in Castle Amber which defines the very structure of Reality, Corwin must contend with the powers of his eight immortal brothers, all Princes of Amber. His savage path is blocked and guarded by eerie structures beyond imagining — impossible realities forged by demonic assassins and staggering Forces that challenge the might of Corwin's superhuman fury.
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A Night in the Lonesome October by Roger Zelazny
Zelazny manages to cleverly combine Jack (the Ripper), Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Frankenstein, and Dracula together with witches, werewolves, druids and many others in this amusing tale of an approaching confrontation that, on the Halloween of a full-moon, will change the cosmic balance of power between good and evil. Told through the eyes of Snuff, Jack's guard dog, who performs magical calculations in addition to accompanying his master on “collecting” expeditions into 19th century London.
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The Snatch by Bill Pronzini
In his first chronicled adventure, the Nameless detective hires on to handle the ransom payoff in a kidnapping case. Financier Louis Martinetti doesn't trust the police to deal with the man who snatched his 9-year-old son from his military prep school, nor is it clear that he trusts the members of his own household. On the appointed evening, Nameless takes a briefcase that contains $300,000 in cash to a secluded location chosen by the kidnapper. Then all hell breaks loose.
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The Collection - Vol. 2 by Bentley Little
He's been hailed by Dean Koontz for his "rock-'em, jolt-'em, shock-'em contemporary terror fiction."
Now Little presents a 32-story collection that could only have come from an author with "a deft touch for the terrifying" (Publishers Weekly). Volume Two consists of 17 stories.
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