Speaking Volumes: 953 books

MYSTERY OF THE MONEY After discovering an extra thousand dollars in his bank account, Clint Adams receives instructions to go to the one-horse town of Bended Knee, Arkansas. Upon arrival, he discovers that various members of the Cahill clan run most of the businesses. The patriarch of the family...

His critically acclaimed debut, Cold Steel Rain, was "a complex, seductively dark story" (The Dallas Morning New’s) that proved Kenneth Abel "is more than able to write a gripping crime drama that will beguile readers" (Midwest Book Review). Now Big Easy lawyer Danny Chaisson....

Nothing stays dead in New Orleans. Not for long, anyway… No one knows this better than ex-district attorney Danny Chaisson—the dead show up in his bathroom mirror every morning, staring right back at him with hollow eyes. Chaisson is the legman for Jimmy Boudrieux, speaker of the...

Dave Harmon was the best marshal Miles City ever had. And the toughest. He believed in his badge and everything it stood for. But sometimes a man had to step outside the law to live with himself. When Harmon’s time came, it came hard . . . it came to laying down his star and picking up a noose to hang the man who had saved his life. . . .

ROCKY MOUNTAIN JUSTICE Cole Weston owned all the land around Saddle Rock, Colorado, and figured his money made him the law of the land. To his way of think­ing, nesters and rustlers deserved the same fate-lynching from the nearest tree. The only man brave enough to stand up to Weston's brand...

"It's all so easy," Billy was thinking. "So nice and easy the way they're playing it. Taking their time to get me out of here. Nobody making trouble. No guns, nothing. Not a bad way to grab a buck... not bad at all... good sun...food... lie in the sun... take a little nap." ...Which...

When Kim Logan is hired by Peg Cody to be her snake stomper, he thinks he's helping a nice lady stay out of harm's way. He thinks he's protecting her from the resident badboy, Hank Dunning, who is trying to force Peg's ranch into forfeiture so he could grab it for a song and be the most powerful landowner...

There are some men who play life as safe as it can be played, satisfied with their thirty a month and beans, satisfied to take orders, to have each twenty-four hours planned for them by some­one else and to wind up their days riding the grub line and swamping out a saloon. But there are other...

HOMECOMING SHOWDOWN Clay Bond was a drifter, a loner, a special man who lived by special rules coming home after sixteen years. He wasn't looking for trouble, but he expected it in a lawless valley that had become the one-man empire of a ruthless cattle king. He wasn't looking...

The blazing story of Colorado Territory—when secret societies ruled a lawless land Kirby Grant was sent to Denver by a secret society on a mission vital to the future of the Union. He knew he had to stay alert. There were dangerous men who knew why Kirby was there and hated him for it. Then...

Murdo Morgan returned to Paradise Valley, Ore­gon, expecting trouble. Sixteen years earlier, his father had planned to help hundreds of families set­tle in the valley. Not wanting to lose their spread, local ranchers had murdered Morgan's brothers and driven his family away. Now Morgan owned...

“This ranch is mine—you got to kill me to get it.” All his life, Rod Devers had wanted only one thing—his own spread. To get it, he hired his gun to the highest bidder. When he had it he hung up his gun. Then Egan Valley exploded into range war. But Rod refused to take...

Hell on high red wheels! Cotton Drennan had packed a good many smoky years into a short span of time. For him, death lurked in shadowy alleys, and he watched them carefully always. He owed his life to that care—and to a fast and accu­rate gun. The Broken Ring Ranch was the biggest...

WILL BEESON HAD TWO CHOICES, HE COULD LOSE HIS LAND… OR HIS LIFE. IN A DEAD MAN’S FOOTSTEPS Joe Pardee was hardheaded, trigger-quick, and the closest thing to a father Will Beeson ever had. When Joe was gunned down defending the Box P Ranch against land-hungry settlers,...