Saturday 31 March 2012

Black Horse Westerns - March 2012


Range of Terror by Billy Hall

978-0709093541

Pat Harmon, sometime lawman, sometime cowboy, pressed himself against the cliffs, in the dark night. Sweeping his gun, blindly, across the darkness he knew the 'Ghost Dog' terrorizing the region could leap out of the darkness at any moment to rip away his throat. He had been a fool to accept the job of ridding the county of an unseen but deadly menace that had left a trail of dead and mutilated people. Even now he wished he could saddle up and ride away, but he could not, it if meant leaving Callie Herbert. Suddenly, tiny sounds, impossible to identify, broke the stillness of the night, then pandemonium erupted without warning.


The Vinegar Peak Wars by Hugh Martin

978-0709093695

Saddle tramps Cephas Dannehar and Slim Oskin drifted into the Vinegar Peak country of Arizona Territory, helped an old colleague out of trouble, were taken for hired gunmen and bucked the interest of the Black Eagle copper mine and scheming Nate Sturgis, the self-styled Boss of Vinegar Peak. In a lead-peppered struggle between their horse-ranching friends and Sturgis's toughs, known as the Peace Commission, bullets were soon flying and fires of destruction were lit. All part of the growing pains of a raw western territory, moulding its post-Civil War destiny. Dannehar and Oskin were no angels but throwing their guns in on the side of right they faced a war which could see Vinegar Peak become respectable or its violent citizenry, prodded by grasping ambitions, might make it an outlaw town ruled by thuggery and the lawless gun.


Mystery Herd by Logan Winters

978-0709093244

There was big trouble on the Bates Family's Owl Ranch when Trinity reached it. The foreman had been lynched, and Vincent Battles had arrived to take his place along with his rough crew. A cattle drive to nearby Fort Bridger had been contracted but the animals still stood grazing on their home pastures. Russell Bates's sisters, the hot-blooded Holly and the beautiful, dark-haired Millicent had been unable to manage affairs on their own. Cow hands were quitting, men were being shot at - Trinity included. When the tough elder brother, Earl, arrives from Texas, he vows to take charge. When he and Vincent Battles lock horns, there is no way of separating them. And when Trinity manages to fit together the pieces of the puzzle of Owl's problems, the only solution his enemies can see is to try to kill him.


Dollar a Day by Chuck Tyrell

978-0709093107

Gabriel Winston Lee, who goes by the name of Real, is a scion of an old Virginia family and fought as a cadet in the Civil War. Today, he's a gun for hire. Tom Easter enlists Real Lee for gun work protecting some Green Valley settlers, at the cowboy wages of a dollar a day. Real is reticent but accepts when he hears Wolf Wilder and Finn McBride are also involved. Joined by Brewster and Jaime Sparrow the six men ride for the new town of Respite. Trouble, however, lies in wait as Ben Seffleck, a nemesis from Real's past, and Lillian Whitehead, his former lover, stand between Lee, his companions and peace in Green Valley. Will a dollar a day do the job?


Last Man in Lazarus by Bill Shields

978-0709093688

When a town marshal is murdered by five escaping prisoners and his new young bride is abducted, the killers think they have escaped the justice they deserve. But the marshal's older brother is Nathan Holly, a feared and relentless US marshal, who is more than happy to take up pursuit. Holly rides north with a one-man posse, a Paiute tracker called Tukwa. For years Tukwa has searched for the cavalry officer who mistakenly, but brutally, massacred his family. Both men will end their search amidst the winter snows of a mining town called Lazarus, in a storm of blood and vengeance which will turn the landscape red.


The Comanche's Revenge by D. M. Harrison

978-0709093909

When looking into the ice-blue eyes of an Indian, Kit Bayfield's face was distorted by a myriad of emotions. The man standing before him was claiming to be his son, but he could see only a stranger. After believing his son dead for over twelve years, Kit struggled to make sense of the revelation. Russell and Tyler, his two other sons had been unable to find Mitch and yet here he was, calling himself the Comanche name of Broke. Kit reckoned folks, in their aptly named hometown of Hell, would find Broke's return difficult. Everyone should have played a part in searching for the boy and now his son's face was full of hatred and it looked like it wasn't only his brothers he had a quarrel with: the whole town was on his payback list.


Praise be to Silver by Ethan Flagg

978-0709093091

Framed for the killing of an assay agent in the Colorado town of Green Ridge, Snakeskin Bob Petrie escapes the lethal attentions of a vigilante mob by the skin of his teeth. Assuming a new identity he heads south in the guise of Morgan Silver. But fate in the shape of the real killer appears to thwart his every move. Fortunately, Lady Luck steps in once again to aid the fugitive. He joins forces with ranch-owner Clay Bishop, whose ranch is plagued by dangerous rustlers and will need nerves of steel and a steady hand if Morgan Silver is to bring the culprits to justice and clear his name.


The Venom of Iron Eyes by Rory Black

978-0709093671

The notorious gang led by Peg-Leg Grimes is headed to the remote and peaceful town of Cooperville to rob the bank of its recently obtained horde of golden eagles. On the way there one of the gang, Laredo Cole, slaughters a village of innocent Mexicans. Unknown to the gang the bounty hunter, Iron Eyes, is in town with Squirrel Sally to collect the reward on a gang of outlaws. When the bank explodes into matchwood Iron Eyes vows to get the money, and the outlaws, for Grimes has made one mistake; he has stolen Iron Eyes' prized Palamino stallion to make his escape...

Friday 30 March 2012

Thursday 29 March 2012

Review of Range of Terror by Billy Hall


Right from the start Billy Hall hooks the reader with questions as to just what is tearing the throats of out people. It isn’t long before the legend of the ‘Ghost Dog’ is told and terror grips the people in the area. Fear of demons keeping people scared to go out after dark. Billy Hall creates some great atmosphere surrounding these fears...

Read more at Western Fiction Review.

Tuesday 27 March 2012

Review of Riders of the Barren Plains by I. J. Parnham


When it comes to westerns I. J. Parnham should be at the top of everyone’s reading list. He’s not only prolific but he’s a damn good writer. Riders of the Barren Plains is one of his more recent books for Robert Hale’s Black Horse Western series and it’s a fine entertainment...

Read more at Dispatches from the Last Outlaw.

Monday 26 March 2012

Bestsellers on Amazon - 26 March

1. Arkansas Smith by Jack Martin (30 Apr 2012) - Kindle eBook
Available for pre-order £2.74

2. The Black Horse Westerns by Abe Dancer, Dean Edwards, Tyler Hatch and Scott Connor (1 Jan 2011) - Kindle eBook
Available for download now £6.86

3. Two-Gun Trouble by Gillian F. Taylor (29 Feb 2012) - Kindle eBook
Available for download now £2.74

4. A Colt for the Kid by John Saunders (31 Oct 2011) - Kindle eBook
Available for download now £5.49

5. A Man Called Breed by Chuck Tyrell (30 Nov 2011)
From £9.11

6. Dead Man's Range by Paul Durst (31 Oct 2011) - Kindle eBook
Available for download now £2.74

7. Gunhawk by John Long (31 Oct 2011) - Kindle eBook
Available for download now £2.74

8. The Ghosts of Poynter by Amos Carr (30 Jun 2012)
Available for pre-order £13.75

9. Rogue's Run by Tyler Hatch (29 Feb 2012)
From £9.11

10. The Kansas Fast Gun by Arthur Kent (31 Oct 2011) - Kindle eBook
Available for download now £2.74

Sunday 25 March 2012

Linford Westerns - March 2012


Fool's Play by Carl Williams

ISBN: 9781444810257
Large Print (Soft Cover) - 288 Pages
Published - 01-03-2012
Genre - Western
Price - £ 8.99

Royce rides into Jawbone looking for a doctor, but finds trouble. Living by the gun can he expect anything else? He signs on with land baron Yale Jamerson, hoping for a job that will leave his conscience clear. However, when Jamerson plans to dam the river and charge road tolls, the townspeople revolt. Forced to choose between his livelihood and his conscience, Royce must decide which path to take. Will it lead to a showdown with his closest friend?


Bleached Bones In The Dust by I.J. Parnham

ISBN: 9781444810240
Large Print (Soft Cover) - 232 Pages
Published - 01-03-2012
Genre - Western
Price - £ 8.99

For twenty years, bounty hunter Montgomery Drake searched for Lomax Rhinehart, to make him pay for an atrocity he committed during the war. When Drake's friend, Wallace Sheckley, tells him he's found Rhinehart, he follows him to Sunrise. But Arnold Hays and his gunslingers have the town in the grip of fear. Then Sheckley goes missing and Rhinehart cannot be found. Hays is key to discovering what has happened to both men. But will Drake's gun get the answers?


The Venom Of Valko by Michael D. George

ISBN: 9781444810233
Large Print (Soft Cover) - 216 Pages
Published - 01-03-2012
Genre - Western
Price - £ 8.99

The bounty for the capture of the Valko Kid is a fortune, drawing the lowest of the low to try and claim it. On one bright moonlit night, Sheriff Colby Masters leads his posse to a narrow canyon ridge to await Valko, who is heading for the town of War Smoke. Suddenly below them, thundering through the canyon, rides a horseman clad in black and riding a magnificent white stallion... Soon they will all taste THE VENOM OF VALKO...


Badlands Bounty by James Del Marr

ISBN: 9781444810226
Large Print (Soft Cover) - 264 Pages
Published - 01-03-2012
Genre - Western
Price - £ 8.99

In the badlands at Sweet Spring, Hawkeye Hank and his woman, Meralito, live peacefully. But Horse Soldier - a bounty hunter - arrives in Little Butte, and he's looking for him. He wants to take him back to Texas - dead or alive. Meanwhile, three Texan desperadoes are also on Hank's trail. They shoot Hawkeye's brother-in-law, and along with Horse Soldier, they converge on Sweet Spring. But will Hawkeye Hank escape, or is he fated to be a bounty hunter's reward?


Take The Oregon Trail by Eugene Clifton

ISBN: 9781444810219
Large Print (Soft Cover) - 224 Pages
Published - 01-03-2012
Genre - Western
Price - £ 8.99

Thousands of men had taken the trail to the west looking for a new beginning - many didn't make it. Adam Trant had also set out on the Oregon Trail - but he was looking for an old enemy. The hunt took him to a savage wilderness and matched him against deadly marauders. Adam was ready to die, as long as he succeeded in his quest. However, he wasn't ready for the unpredictable force of the love of a woman.


Iron Eyes Is Dead by Rory Black

ISBN: 9781444810202
Large Print (Soft Cover) - 224 Pages
Published - 01-03-2012
Genre - Western
Price - £ 8.99

Desert Springs was an oasis that drew the dregs of Texas down into its profitable boundaries. Among the many ruthless characters, there was none so fearsome as the infamous bounty hunter, Iron Eyes. He had trailed a dangerous outlaw right into the remote settlement. But Iron Eyes was wounded: shot up with arrow and bullet after battling with a band of Apaches. As the doctor fought to save him, was the call true that Iron Eyes was dead?

Friday 23 March 2012

Wrong Town by Matthew Mayo now available as an ebook


I’m pleased and proud, chuffed and puffed to announce the release of my new e-book, WRONG TOWN (Roamer Book 1), a revised version of my 2008 novel, WRONG TOWN. This time around, I’ve set it up as the first in a series featuring the protagonist, Roamer, a hulking, misunderstood loner who wants nothing more than to lose himself in the West. But as we all know, life rarely gives us just what we want….

Read more at http://matthewmayo.com.

Thursday 22 March 2012

Review of Last Man in Lazarus by Bill Shields


Last Man in Lazarus is the second Black Horse Western from Bill Shields, and after enjoying his first book, The Snake River Bounty, I was keen to read this. If you like books packed with action then you need look no further than this. Savage bloody gunfights and knife duels fill the pages, as Holly tracks down the men who killed his brother...

Read more at Western Fiction Review.

Tuesday 20 March 2012

Dales Westerns - March 2012


The Untamed by Max Brand

ISBN: 9781842629024
Large Print (Soft Cover) - 336 Pages
Published - 01-03-2012
Genre - Western
Price - £ 11.99

A stirring tale of the West and of three strange comrades: Whistling Dan Barry, a primal force of nature with an untamed soul; Satan, a mighty black stallion and king of the ranges; and Black Bart, a wolf dog to whom his master's word is law. Whistling Dan finds himself locked in a struggle with the outlaw Jim Silent and with Kate Cumberland, the woman who seeks to tame him with her love.


Apache Ambush by Will Cook

ISBN: 9781842629093
Large Print (Soft Cover) - 304 Pages
Published - 01-03-2012
Genre - Western
Price - £ 11.99

Lieutenant Timothy O'Hagen had fought the Apache, knew their language and customs, and respected them. He also knew when an Apache went bad, and to him Contreras was a bad Apache. Osgood Sickles, Agent-in-Charge of the San Carlos Apache Reservation disagreed. Sickles felt that O'Hagen was just trying to make trouble for him because O'Hagen's sweetheart had married him instead. Not until Sickles finds himself facing Contreras's violence does he see that O'Hagen may be right.

Monday 19 March 2012

Bestsellers on Amazon.com - 19 March

1. Rustler's Range by Billy Hall (Feb 1, 2010)
From $13.99

2. Gunhawk by John Long (Oct 31, 2011) - Kindle eBook
Auto-delivered wirelessly $4.35

3. Death on the Devil's Highway by Josh Lockwood (Feb 29, 2012)
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4. Pay Dirt by Lee Walker (Jan 31, 2012)
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5. Colorado Kid by Dale Mike Rogers (Feb 29, 2012) - Kindle eBook
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6. Two-Gun Trouble by Gillian F. Taylor (Feb 29, 2012) - Kindle eBook
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7. Gun Law of Phoenix Cline by Terrell L Bowers (Dec 30, 2011)
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8. Dead Man's Range by Paul Durst (Oct 31, 2011) - Kindle eBook
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9. The Tombstone Vendetta by Ralph Hayes (Apr 1, 2010)
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10. Arizona Pay-Off by Duke Patterson (Oct 31, 2011) - Kindle eBook
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Saturday 17 March 2012

Chuck Tyrell talks westerns


Good morning Petticoats and Pistols. Thank you for the invite. Now, let’s see if I can say anything of import, or at least slightly entertaining.

In considering how to run off at the keyboard, I thought of Laurel Baker. She’s the woman whose story, or at least one part of her story, is in my Black Horse Western short novel called Hell Fire in Paradise.

BHW books have a word-count limit of 45,000. But that doesn’t mean you can sit down at the word processor and knock out that many words by the word counter at the bottom of the page. It means counting as if every page were full of words, chuckablock, as my dear departed mother used to say. So if you aim for 40,000 and don’t go over by more than a thousand or so, you’ve got a Black Horse Western...

Read more at Petticoats and Pistols.

Thursday 15 March 2012

An interview with Chet Cunningham


When did you decide you wanted to be a writer?

In high school we had a test essay type. I didn’t really know the answer, so I wrote all the way around it. Got an A. So I said this writing is a great thing to do.

Did anyone encourage you to be a writer, and if so whom?

No one urged me to be a writer. Just the opposite. When I started college I flunked the English exam and was put in the remedial English class. The HEA of the journalism department said since I was in remedial English I couldn’t be a journalism major. I eventually got in by selling four short articles to the Portland newspapers...

Read more at Western Fiction Review.

Tuesday 13 March 2012

BHW writers try new venture


Sherlock Holmes and the Queen of Diamonds was released by Robert Hale last month and sees Holmes brought in to help a friend track down a missing person. Authors Steve Hayes and David Whitehead talk about what it’s like to write as a team and what drew them to Sherlock Holmes.

How did your writing partnership come about and what made you want to write as a team?


David: Steve had written a Black Horse Western called Gun for Revenge, which I enjoyed very much. A mutual friend named Tom McNulty, who saw the review I posted to the Yahoo Black Horse Westerns group, mentioned it to Steve. Steve emailed me to say thanks and I guess we both just clicked from there...

Read more at Robert Hale Book Blog.

Monday 12 March 2012

Bestsellers on Amazon - 12 March

1. Dead Man's Range by Paul Durst (31 Oct 2011) - Kindle eBook
Available for download now £2.74

2. Gunhawk by John Long (31 Oct 2011) - Kindle eBook
Available for download now £2.74

3. The Ghosts of Poynter by Amos Carr (30 Jun 2012)
From £13.75

4. Rogue's Run by Tyler Hatch (29 Feb 2012)
From £9.11

5. The Kansas Fast Gun by Arthur Kent (31 Oct 2011) - Kindle eBook
Available for download now £2.74

6. Gun Law of Phoenix Cline by Terrell L. Bowers (30 Dec 2011)
From £9.09

7. Sheriff of Vengeance by Rob Hill (31 Jan 2012)
From £9.06

8. The Gallows Gang by I.J Parnham (30 Dec 2011) - Kindle eBook
Available for download now £2.86

9. Ace High in Wilderness by Rob Hill (30 Jun 2011)
From £8.41

10. Hope's Last Chance by Rob Hill (31 Jan 2011)
From £8.75

Sunday 11 March 2012

Review of The Outlaw and the Lady by Chap O'Keefe


THE OUTLAW AND THE LADY by Chap O'Keefe (really our friend Keith Chapman) was published originally by Robert Hale in 1994 as part of Hale's Black Horse Western line. It's newly available as an e-book, though, and I think it's great that some of these older books are being republished. In this case, THE OUTLAW AND THE LADY is certainly deserving of finding a whole new audience of Western readers...

Read more at Rough Edges.

Saturday 10 March 2012

Review of Hell on Hoofs by Lance Howard


Hell On Hoofs is the way that the dime novels have dubbed gun for hire John Laramie.

Laramie is a troubled soul who is looking to retire from his way of life and believes that the town of Lancerville might be just the place to lose himself. But Lancerville is a town that is living in fear and the reason why is soon explained to him by a bargal, Bethany Lewis. All this after she has drugged him and tied him to her bed...

Read more at Broken Trails.

Friday 9 March 2012

Review of Hang 'Em All by David Whitehead


They rode into Austin Springs stirrup to stirrup, six men with guns in the belts and blood in their eyes. The minute the town marshal Sam Judge clapped eyes on them he pegged them as trouble. He was right, too, because by sunset Death had called and the blood of innocents had been spilled in the town’s quiet and dusty streets...

Read more at Western Fiction Review.

Tuesday 6 March 2012

E-BHWs - March 2012


Blood of Iron-Eyes by Rory Black

In the lawless wilds of Arizona Territory, infamous bounty hunter Iron Eyes dishes out his own brand of justice and adds another outlaw to his tally. Heading towards the nearest town of Hope to collect the reward money, he discovers the outlaw worked for Brewster Fontaine, who owns everything and everyone in the town - including the bank. But, Fontaine has no intention of paying out bounty money for having one of his own men killed. Summoning his hire guns back into town, he orders them to kill Iron Eyes if he tries to enter the bank. Unknown to Fontaine, this man is no ordinary bounty hunter who can be frightened like regular folk. Here, instead, is a man who will wage war no matter how many guns he must face.

Available on amazon.co.uk and amazon.com


Broken Star by Terry Murphy

Divided loyalties cause Fallon Vejar to leave his outlaw band when its leader decides to rob the bank in Vejar’s hometown. Though having fled two years earlier after being accused of murder, his fears for Raya – the girl he left behind – make him return to Yancey.

Although discovering that Raya is to marry his old friend Sheriff George Harker, Vejar is prepared to help Harker repel the very outlaws he’d abandoned. But Vejar’s loyalties are again put to the test when the sheriff is shot and he is left to defend the hostile town on his own. Now he must head towards a final showdown with all the odds against him.

Available on amazon.co.uk and amazon.com


Colorado Kid by Dale Mike Rogers

Ben Baker was the most powerful man in the remote Montana settlement of Silver Springs, but, even surrounded by a small army of hired guns, he was afraid. For Baker had many enemies and Brewster Doyle was one of the biggest. Learning that Doyle has sent the infamous gunfighter Frank McCready to kill him, Baker decides to have his men bushwhack the next rider into town. After all, he might not know what McCready looks like but he knows there is only one trail into Silver Springs. But the next rider to appear is the tall drifter known as the Colorado Kid. Fighting for his life in a battle not of his making, can he survive as Silver Springs is bathed in blood?

Available on amazon.co.uk and amazon.com


Death Rides Alone by Dale Graham

When Bronco Travis rides into the mining town of Silverton in Colorado Territory, his only thought is to avenge the death of his father. Nobody recognises the young son of the part-time marshal who had been brutally murdered eight years before by Jack Bowdrie and his gang. It appeared straightforward enough: just slip into town and get the job done. But Bowdrie has taken over the town and has no intention of being ousted from his profitable roost. So when the bodies begin to pile up, the gang boss takes swift action that almost ends in Bronco’s own demise. He will need all his wits and a lethal gun-hand if his deadly nemesis is to be defeated.

Available on amazon.co.uk and amazon.com


Miller's Ride by Caleb Rand

Travelling north from New Mexico, Chad Miller happens upon the small Colorado township of Hooper, where Perdi Bridge is vainly trying to protect her family and cattle business from Brig Porton. A one-time army commander and now the powerful owner of High Smoke, Porton is intent on wresting the Bridges’ property from them, taking their very lives if necessary.

From the outset Chad finds himself involved with the Bridges and he knows he cannot ride on and leave a family who has real need of his skill with fists and gun power. With the odds against him, can Chad shape up a fighting force before Porton and his mercenaries overwhelm them all?

Available on amazon.co.uk and amazon.com

Monday 5 March 2012

Bestsellers on Amazon - 5 March

1. Dead Man's Range by Paul Durst (31 Oct 2011) - Kindle eBook
Available for download now £2.74

2. Gunhawk by John Long (31 Oct 2011) - Kindle eBook
Available for download now £2.74

3. The Ghosts of Poynter by Amos Carr (30 Jun 2012)
From £13.75

4. Rogue's Run by Tyler Hatch (29 Feb 2012)
From £9.11

5. The Kansas Fast Gun by Arthur Kent (31 Oct 2011) - Kindle eBook
Available for download now £2.74

6. Gun Law of Phoenix Cline by Terrell L. Bowers (30 Dec 2011)
From £9.09

7. Sheriff of Vengeance by Rob Hill (31 Jan 2012)
From £9.14

8. The Gallows Gang by I.J Parnham (30 Dec 2011) - Kindle eBook
Available for download now £2.86

9. Ace High in Wilderness by Rob Hill (30 Jun 2011)
From £8.40

10. Hope's Last Chance by Rob Hill (31 Jan 2011)
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Sunday 4 March 2012

Robert Hale Ltd launch new book blog


Welcome to all book lovers, our established authors, would-be authors, and those just interested in the world of publishing, to our new Robert Hale Ltd blog.

Robert Hale Ltd is a small, independent, family-owned publishing company and has been in business for over seventy-five years. In that time we have issued novels here by some notable authors, not least amongst them Berthold Brecht, Robert Goddard’s very first book Past Caring, Harold Robbins, Robert Bloch’s Psycho,Wendy Perriam, E.V. Thompson and, of course, Jean Plaidy. We are adding to our list of new books every year and trust that this blog will bring to your attention stories to please you and new authors whose names will, I hope, rise to the same heights as those of the writers just mentioned. Our wide-ranging non-fiction lists of general books, horological and jewellery books, and the country’s foremost equestrian list of J A Allen, are second to none and contain something to interest and please every reader.

If you are looking at our blog then I imagine you are as passionate about books in all forms as I am. Thank you for reading thus far and enjoy the rest of the blog.

Gill Jackson
Managing Director

Follow the blog at http://halebooks.wordpress.com/.

Friday 2 March 2012

Video now available for No Coward by Lee Clinton


With narration by Shane Young, illustrations by Jason Paulos and audio visual by Brigitte and Cristian Pedraza.

Watch it now at www.leeclinton.com.