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"Walt Longmire faces one of his most challenging crime scenes as he tries to reckon with the revelations of his last case where he confronted the ghosts of his past and questioned the very nature of justice and mercy in the hard country of the West. Deep in the heart of the Wyoming countryside, Sheriff of Absaroka County, Walt Longmire, is called to a crime scene like few others that he has seen. This crime brings up issues that go back to Walt's...
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Porter Beck volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"Porter Beck is the sheriff in the high desert of Nevada, north of Las Vegas. Born and raised there, he left to join the Army, where he worked in Intelligence, deep in the shadows in far off places. Now he's back home, doing the same lawman's job his father once did, before his father started to develop dementia. All is relatively quiet in this corner of the world, until an old, retired FBI agent is found killed. He was brutally tortured before he...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"On Memorial Day, 1958, as the people of Jewel, Minnesota gather to remember and honor the sacrifice of so many sons in the wars of the past, the half-clothed body of wealthy landowner Jimmy Quinn is found floating in the Alabaster River, dead from a shotgun blast. Investigation of the murder falls to Sheriff Brody Dern, a highly decorated war hero who still carries the physical and emotional scars from his military service. Even before Dern has the...
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Mick Hardin novels volume 3
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English
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"Mick Hardin is back in the hills of Kentucky. He'd planned to touch down briefly before heading to France, marking the end of his twenty-year Army career. In Rocksalt, his sister Linda the sheriff is investigating the murder of Pete Lowe, a sought-after mechanic at the local racetrack. After another body is found, Linda and her deputy Johnny Boy Tolliver wonder if the two murders are related. Linda steps into harm's way just as a third body turns...
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Joanna Brady mysteries volume 20
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English
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"Driven by a compulsion that challenges his self-control, the man calling himself Charles Milton prowls the rodeo circuit, hunting young women. For years, he has been meticulous in his methods, abducting, murdering, and disposing of his victims while leaving no evidence of his crimes--or their identities--behind. Indigenous women have become his target of choice, knowing law enforcement's history of ignoring their disappearances. A cold case has just...
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Pearl River volume 1
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English
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"The day Alexis Stone is sworn in as interim sheriff, the Queen's Gambit Killer strikes again, leaving a chilling calling card of a white pawn and a note with a chess move printed on it. Alexis must join forces with Police Chief Nathan Landry to find the killer before their next move"--
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Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
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270 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
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English
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"The Lonely Law was Jim Larribee, Sheriff of Pinnacle County. Larribee had been befriended in many ways and had finally been helped to his office by Big Dan Sharples, and rumor had it that Big Dan owned Larribee from ears to hocks, and the star with him. But Larribee felt different. He knew that the star built a wall around a man -- that he was in a damned lonely corner. But the middle of the road was where he would stay, playing no favorites, and...
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Kino Lorber Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
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3 Blu-rays (258 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Kansas raiders: "Outraged by Redleg atrocities, the James and Younger Brothers along with Kit Dalton join Quantrill's Raiders and find themselves participating in even worse war crimes"--imdb.com.
Sierra: "A tomboy frontier lawyer finds an outlaw and his son hiding out from a false murder charge"--imdb.com.
Destry: "A dishonest mayor and powerful criminal dominate a small western town. But when the town's sheriff dies under mysterious circumstances,...
9) Bad hombres
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Slash and Pecos volume 6
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"He blew into town like a tornado--a mysterious stranger with money to burn and a sadistic streak as wide as the Rio Grande. He says his name is Benson and he's come to invest in the town's future. First, he showers the banks and local businesses with cash. Then, he hires a pair of drunks to fight and get arrested so he can check out the local lawmen. After that, he warms up to a lady of the evening--with deadly results. That's just the beginning....
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Pinnacle Books/Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2022]
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328 pages ; 18 cm.
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English
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"Former thief and wanted man Carson Stone dreams of a peaceful life on a ranch built by his own hands, but dreams don't always come without a steep price. To earn a stake, Carson rides west to collect the reward on a claim-jumper. The land is beautiful, but times are hard as the territory is ravaged by the latest Indian war and a mining boom gone bust. hen Stone steps in to defend a family ambushed by murdering marauders, he makes a terrifying discovery:...
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Ben Packard mysteries volume 1
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Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
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331 pages ; 21 cm
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English
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Reeling from personal tragedy, former police officer Ben Packard takes a job as a sheriff's deputy in small town Minnesota and leads the investigation when two teens go missing, forcing him to dig deep into his own past.
12) The guilty guns
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Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
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182 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
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English
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"The ten Guilty Guns had ravaged the village of sleeping Cheyennes at dawn, and when the sun came up Little Dry Creek ran crimson with blood. A hundred Indians were cut down that morning. One lived, a toddler, but not for revenge. Found and raised by Tom Ormsby, Johnny wanted only to forget, to make his peace with the white man. Twenty years later, Tom has been the sheriff for fifteen years. Johnny, accepted by the community, has been his deputy for...
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Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Physical Desc
270 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
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English
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"Sheriff Jack Allen had a twin brother, known as Jim-twin Allen, also as the White Wolf. Some said Jim was the fabled Lone Wolf -- outlawed by his pack and condemned to travel alone because his kind feared and would not trust him. Others swore that he was the White Wolf of Indian lore, who brought good luck, and that none but the evil need fear him! That was the reputation of Jim-twin Allen. Branded as an outlaw, with a big price on his head, the...
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Haven's Rock volume 2
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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In a well-hidden refuge for those who need to disappear, Detective Casey Duncan and her husband, Sheriff Eric Dalton, when the town's youngest resident claims a bear with human eyes is stalking a hiking party and then a dead body turns up, must find out what they're up against.
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Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
Large print edition.
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363 pages (large print) ; 25 cm
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English
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A corrupt former Army Colonel trying to run a railroad. The sheriff of a frontier town so raw its only name is New Water Stop One. And a gang of outlaws on a mission. When these forces collide, bullets fly. After pulling off their latest train robbery, outlaw leader CC. Ellis and his unruly gang of long riders set their sights on a new target, a rich mining operation. There are only two men who can stand in their way. Sheriff Max Boyd, a lawman who...
16) Devil's gulch
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Devil's gulch western volume 1
Pub. Date
2023
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English
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"John Holt is a traveling gunslinger. He's been liberating dirty towns west of the Mississippi of murdering outlaw trash ever since the Civil War ended. No questions asked. Payment on demand. The only way out of this town is in a pinewood box. Holt's latest job is in Devil's Gulch in Colorado Territory. But wiping out bands of bank robbers is just the beginning. More disorder is brewing, and the skittish mayor has handpicked Holt as the new sheriff....
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Woman who volume 3
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Physical Desc
328 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
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English
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"January Billings is starting over after bringing her husband's murderer to justice when a stranger shows up at her ranch door. The sheriff, weaseling out of his duties, has sent Eli Pasco to enlist January's help in recovering a horse that's been stolen from him by a young girl. Eli hadn't expected the deputy to be a woman, and he's none too pleased with having to deal with her. Even so, they set out to find the girl and his horse. It isn't long...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"After years of working as an FBI agent, Titus Crown returns home to Charon County, land of moonshine and cornbread, fist fights and honeysuckle. Seeing his hometown struggling with a bigoted police force inspires him to run for sheriff. He wins, and becomes the first Black sheriff in the history of the county. Then a year to the day after his election, a young Black man is fatally shot by Titus's deputies. Titus pledges to follow the truth wherever...
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Warner Bros
Pub. Date
[2023]
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12 DVDs (2,340 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A widowed farmer Sam Jones, who's raising his son Mike with the help of their outspoken, headstrong, and lovable housekeeper Aunt Bee. Add to the mix Sam's girlfriend Millie, good-natured Goober, County Clerk Howard, and fix-it-man Emmett, and you've got a charming, laugh-filled slice of American small-town life!
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