Tom Hawks: 6 books

Sheriff Chance Colt is back again for the third time around with his familiar posse of friends and foes, along with some new good guys and bad guys to add to the ever-growing mix of the seemingly endless cast of characters he encounters along his daily mission to keep the law and order in his small...

You can’t keep a good lawman down. Especially a man like Sheriff Chance Colt. In this follow-up sequel to his first novel in the Chance Colt Literary Mystery Series, Chance and Circumstance, fiction writer and novelist, Tom Hawks, continues to follow the trials, trails, triumphs and tribulations...

Chance and Circumstance is a fictional police procedural novel about the modern-day American West. The setting takes place in Santa Cruz County, Arizona, the smallest of fifteen counties in the great state of Arizona. Santa Cruz County sits smack dab in the middle of the barren Sonoran desert, surrounded...

Merriam Press Fiction Series. A dark, sad, comedic, fictional account of a man who believes he is the reincarnation of Ernest Hemingway. "Ernest Miller Hemingway was born on July 21, 1899, in Oak Park, Ill., a suburb of Chicago. Hemingway died on July 2, 1961, at his home in Ketchum, Idaho, from...

Sheriff Chance Colt abruptly retires and then wanders off into the Santa Rita Mountains after his wife, Sarah, is murdered during a school shooting. It is his guilt and shame that force the sheriff to escape the heartbreak of the civilized world.When Chance leaves his job, his home, and his...

Chance Colt, the Sheriff of Santa Cruz County in Arizona, is facing the most daunting case of his career. In quick succession, Chance’s loyal dog, two beloved horses, jaguar companion, and lifelong friend and brother-in-arms are murdered. His home, the Sanctuary Ranch, is destroyed by arson, and...