Richard Prosch

Two outlaws plot the demise of a woman from the past; A gunman is plagued by a passel of ornery cats; An emerging artist threatens the status quo of an old Wyoming camp; A young inventor follows in the footsteps of Thomas Edison and Sherlock Holmes. Owlhoots and heroes. Whit Branham and The DaVinci Kid. A Spur Award-winning story and other acclaimed favorites take readers to the small towns and wide open range of the old west.

Chuckholes and raging rivers, fog, rain, and impossibly steep grades-it's the spring of 1860. The Butterfield Overland Trail is more than hazardous for a lone coach hurling down the Missouri run between Syracuse and Fort Smith, Arkansas. But for Texas Ranger Lin Jarret and his pack of Hellbenders charged with freighting $10,000 in stolen loot, it's a raging gauntlet of gunfire and death. As the deadly Order of the Ivory Compass aims to engulf the Show-Me State, Texas Ranger Lin Jarret, Reece Sinclair, and Micah LeMay face an impossible assignment in their second explosive adventure in the exciting new Western series-Hellbenders.

Texas-1859As the Rio Grande Valley reels from the onslaught of Cortina's Mexican insurgents, a Tejano named Cardoza lays siege to a prominent rancho. Ranger Lin Jarret takes the assignment to ride to the defense, and he's ready to fight the devil, not babysit pampered heiress Reece Sinclair-no matter how beautiful she is. Reece, however, holds more than one secret close to her breast-secrets shrouded in powder smoke, backed up with lead...and very dangerous for Lin Jarret.When the Texas borderland explodes in all-out war, Lin Jarret is hurled into battle, his carbine and Colt .44 primed and ready. At his side is the surprisingly deadly Reece, a runaway slave with secrets of his own, and a hell-bending pack of wild shootists primed to kill.Hellbenders is the first searing adventure in an exciting new Western series.

Two outlaws plot the demise of a woman from the past; A gunman is plagued by a passel of ornery cats; An emerging artist threatens the status quo of an old Wyoming camp; A young inventor follows in the footsteps of Thomas Edison and Sherlock Holmes. Owlhoots and heroes. Whit Branham and The DaVinci Kid. A Spur Award-winning story and other acclaimed favorites take readers to the small towns and wide open range of the old west."Stories distinguished by humor, irony, crisp language use, and a vivid sense of setting."--John D. Nesbitt, Death at Cantera

Ex-state cop Dan Spalding has a hell of a timekeeping up with his record shop and watching out for hairy dog friends like old Digger Strickland.When Digger's sordid secrets call up a decades-old evil involving evangelist and Senate-hopeful Darian Cole, Spalding needs all the help he can get.But a backwards message on an old record canonly bring sorrow and ruin. But for who?Join Dan Spalding as he calls in his markers and picks up his guns for a dark and bloody showdown that will change the future of Ozark City and rip apart Dan's world forever.

The job seems simple enough to Dan Spalding.Private security for a geeky college professor and his beautiful red-haired girlfriend. A favor for Marti-and Spalding's Ozark City record store can use the cash.But the flip side to simple is a brutal mix of love, betrayal, and vengeance. And for everyone involved, the final track just might be death.

Hired hand.Hired gun.The legends often precede him.And death follows behind.John Coburn wanders the Nebraska rough country, the windburned Wyoming range, and far beyond as the stranger men call The Peregrine.Collected here for the first time are three acclaimed early novels: Devil's LedgerDevil's RunDevil You Know...and more

Ex state cop Dan Spalding wants to run his vintage record store in peace.But when a punk who boosts a valuable LP turns up dead, it seems to relate to the revenge murder of an infamous entertainer.And Spalding is the next target.Dan Spalding navigates a seedy world of death, sex, and betrayal in a new myster/thriller series set in the heart of the Ozarks.

From the 1965 east-coast blackout to depression-era Nebraska; from the trash-piled streets of Manhattan to rural-South Carolina; here are stories of innocent criminals, guilty bystanders, mob hit men, dead farmgirls, and small-town cops.Justice is brutal.Long dead secrets won't stay in the grave.And just about everybody has something real to fear.New tales of crime and suspense join Prosch fan favorites to keep you turning pages well past midnight.