Review of A Storm in Montana by Will DuRey

A Storm in Montana is Will DuRey’s fifth Black Horse Western but only the second I’ve read, the previous one being In the High Bitterroots, and like that book I found this to be an equally entertaining read...

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Review of The Comanche Fights Again

This is the second book about Broke and D.M. Harrison includes enough background in this to fill in the backstory of not just Broke but the other characters that return too, and of the relationships that they have with other, such as the now deadly animosities directed at Broke by his Comanche brothers, Black Horse and Wolf Slayer...


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Review of The Preacher's Legacy by Walter Bryant

Tom Deegan's fight for survival begins when he rescues a child from a burning stagecoach, held up by the murdering Preacher and his gang. The Preacher dies and Tom takes the loot and hides it. Years later three killers are looking for Tom, and the money. But protecting himself, and his adopted son Billy, is only made more difficult by the local rancher, whose hired guns want Tom dead. By using his fighting skills can he protect them both? And can he remain silent about the whereabouts of the cash?

Intellligent, adult western dealing with serious themes - hugely enjoyable and a great advert for the genre.

This review appeared in Books Monthly

Linford Westerns - August 2013

Sheriff Of Vengeance by Rob Hill


ISBN: 9781444816341
Large Print (Soft Cover) - 272 Pages
Published - 01-08-2013
Genre - Western
Price - £ 8.99

With a failing farm, and with nightmare memories of the war, Clay Butterfield and his wife Rose Alice abandon life in the East. They join a wagon train bound for California. However, when their departure is delayed, Clay finds out that a gunman is in town, intent on killing him. Instinct tells him to run, but to protect Rose Alice, and make his new life secure, he rides into town to confront the stranger who wants him dead.

Hell On Hoofs by Lance Howard


ISBN: 9781444816358
Large Print (Soft Cover) - 224 Pages
Published - 01-08-2013
Genre - Western
Price - £ 8.99

Arriving in Lancerville, John Laramie hoped to escape his old life as a man-hunter and settle down. But there he finds he's torn between the demons of his past and hope for a brighter future when a young woman seeks his help in getting rid of a vicious outlaw. Then the Cross Gang attacks him and the young woman's life is put in danger. But will it cost Laramie more to win than to lose in a deadly showdown?

Trouble At Mesquite Flats by Will Keen

ISBN: 9781444816365
Large Print (Soft Cover) - 232 Pages
Published - 01-08-2013
Genre - Western
Price - £ 8.99

Arriving in Mesquite Flats, ex-New York businessman Bodene Rich is committed to Yuma Penitentiary for a vicious assault. He's released, in light of new evidence, and pardoned by Warden Bradley Shaw. On the day of Rich's release, Shaw resigns, but an unknown gunman then shoots him dead on the trail. Rich is once again in trouble. And, in a showdown, he's embroiled in a bloody gun battle, where the outcome hangs in the balance until the final shot...

Six Ways Of Dying by Cody Wells


ISBN: 9781444816372
Large Print (Soft Cover) - 216 Pages
Published - 01-08-2013
Genre - Western
Price - £ 8.99

Angelo's peculiar involvement with an old man, two brothers, their hired gunmen and a treasure map starts well, but in less time than it takes to cock a Colt, the deal goes bad. Double-crossed, Angelo sets out to track down the men responsible. But then, saddled with a cavalry officer, some raw recruits - and a beautiful girl - he meets Ulzana, the Apache renegade, and they find themselves outnumbered and exhausted. Angelo, however, is undaunted and will go down fighting...

Hell Stage To Lone Pine by Jack Dakota


ISBN: 9781444816334
Large Print (Soft Cover) - 232 Pages
Published - 01-08-2013
Genre - Western
Price - £ 8.99


At Lone Pine Ranch, young Ben Brewer wants to prove himself to the owner, Morgan Hethridge, and his beautiful daughter Josie. But Hethridge's rival is scheming to take over Lone Pine Ranch. To protect the land, Brewer faces the feared gunhawk Calvin Choate. A desperate situation, until old timer Whipcrack Riley steps in. Will his wily ways and his skills driving a stagecoach be enough to help Brewer once the situation gets really rough and the bullets are flying?

Review of To Kill the Valko Kid by Michael D. George

Michael D. George is a prolific writer of westerns under his own name and a handful of pseudonyms. Most of his work under his own name are parts of series, and this is the fifth Valko book. The Sunset Kid has also appeared in a book of his own, so this one really will have follows of the authors work wondering who will come out victorious and whether either, or both, will die...


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Dales Westerns - August 2013

The Fighting Tenderfoot by William MacLeod Raine

ISBN: 9781842629390
Large Print (Soft Cover) - 352 Pages
Published - 01-08-2013
Genre - Western
Price - £ 15.99

Young lawyer O'Hara gets an auspicious welcome to the town of Concho - a bullet through his hat, and before he has a chance to put up a shingle, he becomes involved in a bloody war between two cattle titans, Wesley Steelman and David Ingram. It is war without quarter, and among the two gun mercenaries employed by both sides, the most notorious is eighteen-year-old Bob Quantrell. Cheerful and fearless, but a cold-blooded killer, Quantrell is loyal only to his own lightning-fast six-gun. O'Hara learns quickly that Colt and Winchester are the only law in Concho.

The Last Gun by Lauran Paine

ISBN: 9781842629406
Large Print (Soft Cover) - 208 Pages
Published - 01-08-2013
Genre - Western
Price - £ 15.99

Sheriff Tom Logan has to follow the order of the judge and hang Old Man Barton for murder. Barton, an old frontiersman in Winchester Junction, had shot a man he claimed was a horse thief, but the alleged thief was the son of a rich and powerful rancher and the bullet that killed him was in the back. The sheriff, the jurors and townsmen are troubled by the execution, especially when a man, highly capable with his fists and gun, appears in town determined to prove that Old Barton was innocent of the crime for which he was hanged and intends to settle the score.

Review of Dust and Bullets by Vance Tillman

As far as I can tell this is the second book to carry the author name of Vance Tillman, the first being Riders on the Wind. Tillman easily hooks the reader with many questions and includes a great twist about halfway through that took me completely by surprise and this results in Fogarty becoming involved in a second manhunt that is also linked to the Ocotillo kid.

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Black Horse Westerns - July 2013

She wore a Badge by Steve Hayes

978-0719806216

Deputy Marshal Mercer was a tough, no-nonsense badge-packer, and the tall, lean lawdog from El Paso was on the trail of three crazy convicts who'd just broken out of Huntsville Prison. When their trails finally crossed there was going to be bloodshed and gunsmoke and, for the killers, a surprise that might very well prove fatal, because Liberty Mercer was a woman. But only a fool would underestimate Liberty. She was as handy with the Colt .45 at her hip as she was with the Winchester Model '86 she carried on her saddle. With a band of reinforcements in the shape of gunfighters Gabriel Moonlight, Latigo Rawlins, mysterious blind man Don Rojo and her father, the man they called Drifter, Liberty Mercer was primed and ready for the final showdown...

Backshooter by Dale Graham

978-0719809224

Reece Willard and Dandy Sam Foley are partners running the Rolling Dice saloon in Three Forks, Montana. When they take out an extra loan for an adjoining dance hall, neither man has any idea of the can of worms it will open and the crooked bank manager has tricked them. Threatened with eviction when they cannot repay the loan the partners are forced to take the law into their own hands. But things do not turn out as planned. Reece serves time in the state penitentiary while his treacherous partner escapes justice. Will Reece get his revenge when his confrontation with the Judas reveals a shocking truth?

Blood Money by D. D. Lang

978-0719808258

What made saloonkeeper Wilbur Enright so eager to get his hands on the keys to the bank's safe, after the disappearance of the sheriff, Clint West? With Luther Parry, the assistant bank manager, and his wife, Lucy, also missing, and three dangerous-looking strangers new in town, serious trouble threatens. But one of the strangers, Dale Smith, is on the trail of the missing three, and the good people of Springfield are in for a long and tough ride if peace is to be restored...

Whiplash by Owen G. Irons

978-0719808203

Sandy Rivers was taking a well-deserved rest in the trail head town of Durant, Colorado when the dying man staggered to his saloon table. The injured man had been whiplashed half to death and then finished off with a knife in his back. He had come to warn Sandy of something but died before he could finish what he had to say. If Sandy had let that be an end to things, he would not have been pursued across the desert, shot at, charmed and lied to by a beautiful woman, then witnessed the death of his home ranch's owner, before finally meeting the killer with the whip.

Monty McCord Chuck Tyrell

978-0719808296

What made saloonkeeper Wilbur Enright so eager to get his hands on the keys to the bank's safe, after the disappearance of the sheriff, Clint West? With Luther Parry, the assistant bank manager, and his wife, Lucy, also missing, and three dangerous-looking strangers new in town, serious trouble threatens. But one of the strangers, Dale Smith, is on the trail of the missing three, and the good people of Springfield are in for a long and tough ride if peace is to be restored...

Horse Soldier's Return by Mark Bannerman

978-0719808234

Bounty hunter Horse Soldier returns from Navajo country to find his wife, Sarah, and daughter, Clementine, have been taken by killers Cal Livermore and Tod Ridelle. But the kidnappers don't want money: they want Horse Soldier, in revenge for the shooting of Laramie Pete Livermore. Horse Soldier teams up with Running Deer McVicar who is in pursuit of his father's killer but can they rescue Sarah and Clemy in time?

Review of The Devil's Work by Paul Bedford

Having really enjoyed Paul Bedford’s debut Black Horse Western, Blood on the Land, I’d been looking forward to this one and I must say it more than lives up to the excellence of the previous novel...

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Linford Westerns - July 2013

No Coward by Lee Clinton

ISBN: 9781444815962
Large Print (Soft Cover) - 336 Pages
Published - 01-07-2013
Genre - Western
Price - £ 8.99

When a physician hands young cowboy Olford Tate a death sentence, his dangerous state of mind results in a cold, calculated killing before witnesses. But an ageing US marshal, with a hard-nosed approach to the law, comes to his defence, and the result is an odd and unlikely partnership. What follows is a treacherous and unpredictable journey, where there is no room for cowardice - but is Marshal Henry Owens using Olford for his own purposes?

 The Sons Of Casey O'donnell by Scott Connor 

ISBN: 9781444815979
Large Print (Soft Cover) - 224 Pages
Published - 01-07-2013
Genre - Western
Price - £ 8.99

When the outlaw Casey O'Donnell steals $10,000 from the railroad, the townsfolk of Prospect Creek turn against his honest sons, Ryan and Alexander. Later, however, their status restored, Ryan is appointed deputy sheriff. Then Casey returns, claiming he didn't steal the money, and Ryan sets out to uncover the truth. But with the discredited railroad man Hudson Gilmore and a gun-toting US marshal on Casey's trail, the mission tests his family loyalty to the limit.

Showdown In Jeopardy by John Davage 

ISBN: 9781444815986
Large Print (Soft Cover) - 192 Pages
Published - 01-07-2013
Genre - Western
Price - £ 8.99

Near Cutler's Pass, a derailed train is raided for its $80,000 gold shipment... Five years later in the town of Jeopardy, Clyde Pascoe is shot and killed by an unknown assassin. Sheriff Cyrus Yapp and newspaper editor Will Bullard link Pascoe's death with the Cutler's Pass train raid. They suspect that a newcomer to Jeopardy, Luke Frey, is involved in the murders suddenly occurring in the town...whilst Luke's interest lies in discovering the identity of the train's mysterious fifth raider...

The Devil's Payroll by Paul Green

ISBN: 9781444815993
Large Print (Soft Cover) - 248 Pages
Published - 01-07-2013
Genre - Western
Price - £ 8.99

When bounty hunter John Harrison captures fugitive outlaw Clay Barton, he's persuaded by Maggie Sloane to allow the captive to lead them to the loot robbed from an army payroll. But Barton double-crosses them and the mysterious Leo Gabriel kidnaps Maggie. With a veteran Buffalo Soldier, Sergeant Eli Johnson, at his side, Harrison battles ruthless vaqueros and a Comanche war party to recover the money, re-capture Barton and rescue Maggie...but a surprise awaits him when he finally catches up with his enemies...

Sheriff Without A Star by I.J. Parnham

ISBN: 9781444816006
Large Print (Soft Cover) - 224 Pages
Published - 01-07-2013
Genre - Western
Price - £ 8.99

Cassidy Yates had been stripped of his Sheriff's star by the townsfolk of Monotony. Leland Matlock's son had died, due to his error of judgement. Then Leland, ready to reveal information that could have shed new light on the sheriff's downfall, was shot. Cassidy believed that Leland's shooting was connected to the death of his son. So, rising to the challenge to uncover the link, Cassidy endeavoured to get that star pinned back on his chest where it belonged.

Running Wild by Corba Sunman

ISBN: 9781444816013
Large Print (Soft Cover) - 272 Pages
Published - 01-07-2013
Genre - Western
Price - £ 8.99

Deputy Sheriff Cole Paston suspects that Floyd Kennedy is behind the trouble that festers in Bolton County, Kansas. The son of Buck Kennedy, the biggest rancher in the county, Floyd was jailed for three years for trying to kill Cole's brother Mart. To complicate matters further, Kennedy wants to take over the Paston ranch for Floyd, who's due for release from prison. Now Cole senses that trouble, in the form of bloodshed and murder, is far from over...