Elizabeth Voss. Five Star, $25.95 (498p) ISBN 978-1-4328-2546-1
Voss’s debut blends horror and suspense to little effect. In the summer of 2010, the small town of Winslow, Wash., suffers a series of inexplicable events, beginning with the sudden death of cattle in Pard Holloway’s herd, perhaps from mad cow...
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Johnny D. Boggs, Author . Five Star $25.95 (226p) ISBN 978-1-59414-622-0
Two-time Spur Award–winner Boggs (Camp Ford
) relates the 1880s exploits of Daniel Killstraight, a Kwahadi Comanche returning from the Carlisle Industrial School in Pennsylvania. Daniel’s train halts at Fort Smith, Ark., just as Jimmy...
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Johnny D. Boggs, Author . Five Star $25.95 (232p) ISBN 978-1-59414-803-3
With hardly a shot fired, Spur Award–winner Boggs delivers one of his best westerns. Jim Hawkins tells his grandson about his wild days as a teenage cowboy, riding with Tommy O'Hallahan and their mentor, John Henry Kenton. The three pards
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Johnny D. Boggs, Author Thomas Bouregy & Company $19.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-8034-9270-7
A romantic courtship becomes a quotidian shoot-'em-up in this sequel to Boggs's Hannah and the Horseman. Set in 1884 in West Texas, the narrative continues the love affair between Hannah Scott, a comely young woman who is raising five orphans on a...
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Johnny D. Boggs, Author Thomas Bouregy & Company $19.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-8034-9300-1
Stock western bravado and blood mark the third installment of Boggs's fanciful Hannah and the Horseman series (after The Courtship of Hannah and the Horseman). Long on horseflesh and action, short on depth and credibility, Boggs's series may look to
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Johnny D. Boggs, Author Avalon Books $19.95 (182p) ISBN 978-0-8034-9390-2
Like the ""double-dimer"" thrillers of the Old West, Boggs's second novel (after Hannah and the Horseman) comes complete with a generic fast-moving plot, ""cliffhanger"" chapter endings and a burgeoning cast of villainous characters. The guileless...
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Johnny D. Boggs, Author Five Star (ME) $25.95 (230p) ISBN 978-1-59414-504-9
When the James-Younger gang rode into Northfield, Minn., in September 1876, Jesse James and his saddle pals figured robbing the town's bank would be easy money. But this lively and entertaining western-filled with gun smoke, hot lead and accurate...
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Johnny D. Boggs, Author Five Star (ME) $25.95 (212p) ISBN 978-1-59414-557-5
The latest from Spur Award winner Boggs follows the terrific Northfield, and is loosely based on an 1861 incident of massacre and lost treasure in New Mexico. In 1881, three bored 12-year-old kids, Jack Dunivan, Jasmine Allison and Ian Spencer Henry,
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Johnny D. Boggs. Five Star, $25.95 (266p) ISBN 978-1-4328-2710-6
Countless books have been written about Custer and the Battle of the Little Big Horn in Montana in June 1876, and Spur Award–winner Boggs (Summer of the Star) adds yet another perspective to this famous Old West fight. Boggs’s approach uses the...
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