Lauran Paine
Man from Durango

Prairie Guns is set on the plains of Colorado. Homesteaders have taken up land on vast areas that were formerly free range for cattle baron Colton Miller. Bent Ander in Man from Durango had to leave Texas in a hurry following a gun battle with a belligerent freighter. Several years of living below the border in Mexico has allowed the affair to be forgotten, so the man known now simply as Durango returns, hoping to find work with a trail drive north.

Maris Soule
The Crows

When P. J. Benson takes a walk in the woods with her puppy, she doesn’t expect to be shot at or to find a man dying in her dining room. A fast-paced, contemporary mystery that mixes wry humour with suspense and romance.

Crucifi xion River is set at a stage station in the river delta area of California: a drama played out in the ghostly remains of the town once built by the Crucifixion River cult. In The Carville Ghost, the nocturnal appearances of a mysterious apparition are investigated. Bill Pronzini’s Nameless Detective makes an appearance in the story Wrong Place, Wrong Time. In Irrefutable Evidence, McCone is challenged by the almost impossible task of exonerating a man imprisoned for the murder of his mistress.