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1) True grit
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Language
English
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Mattie Ross is just fourteen years of age when a coward going by the name of Tom Chaney shoots her father down in Fort Smith, Arkansas, and robs him of his life, his horse, and $150 in cash money. Mattie leaves home to avenge her father's blood. With the one-eyed Rooster Cogburn, the meanest available U.S. Marshal, by her side, Mattie pursues the homicide into Indian Territory.
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Series
Language
English
Description
Who killed Emily Vaughn? The stunning new standalone thriller from international No. 1 bestseller Karin Slaughter. A girl with a secret ... Longbill Beach, 1982. Emily Vaughn gets ready for prom night, the highlight of any high school experience. But Emily has a secret. And by the end of the evening, she will be dead. A murder that remains a mystery ... Forty years later, Emily's murder remains unsolved. Her friends closed ranks, her family retreated...
5) Hit list
Author
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
The adventures of U.S. Marshal and vampire hunter Anita Blake continue when word is leaked to her that hit men are headed to St. Louis and that she, Jean-Claude, and Richard are targets.
6) Raylan
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Series
Language
English
Description
When Federal Marshall Raylan Givens squares off against a known offender, he will warn the man, "If I have to pull my gun I'll shoot to kill." Except this time he finds the offender naked in a bathtub, doped up and missing his kidneys. Raylan knows there's big money in body parts, but by the time he finds out who is making the cuts, he is lying naked in a bathtub himself, Layla, the cool transplant nurse, about to go for his kidneys. It turns out...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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Description
Managing an influx of carpetbaggers, gamblers, thieves and other disreputables in prosperous Appaloosa, Cole and Hitch are challenged by a flashy and womanizing casino owner who proves slippery when he is implicated in a series of murders.
9) Deep Creek
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
"Deep Creek" is a historical thriller inspired by actual events and people: the 1887 massacre of Chinese miners in remote and beautiful Hells Canyon; the middle-aged judge who goes after their slayers; and the sham race-murder trial that follows.
Author
Series
Publisher
Oni
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Carrie Stetko is a U.S. Marshal on the desolate and bone-chilling continent of Antarctica. When tragedy strikes a Russian science station, it's up to Carrie to investigate the scene and piece together what could have caused such an explosion. The answers she finds have the potential to rock not just the ice, but the entire world!
14) Breakneck
Author
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In Washington, DC, Supreme Court Justice Charlotte Morehouse prepares for a trip to Alaska, unaware that a killer is waiting to take his revenge--by livestreaming her death to the world. In Anchorage, Alaska, Deputy US Marshals Arliss Cutter and Lola Teariki are assigned to security detail at a judicial conference in Fairbanks. Lola is tasked with guarding Justice Townsend's teenaged daughter while Cutter provides counter-surveillance. It's a simple,...
15) Wild justice
Author
Series
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
In the spring of 1896, after thirty years spent dispensing justice in Montana, Judge Harlan Blackthorne expires, leaving Deputy U.S. Marshal Page Murdock, his most steadfast officer, to escort his remains across the continent by rail. The long journey is interrupted from time to time by station stops for the public to pay its respects, and for various marching bands to serenade the departed with his favorite ballad, "After the Ball." This gives Murdock...
Author
Publisher
Five Star, a part of Gale, Cengage Company
Pub. Date
August 2019.
Language
English
Description
"Two western novels featuring Bear Haskell, U.S. Deputy Marshal, who rides for Chief Marshal Henry Dade out of Denver's First District Court. Haskell's a former Union war hero and Pinkerton agent, a big man over six and a half feet tall and as broad as a barn door. He wears a necklace of bear claws taken from the grizzly that almost had him for supper. That's the kind of man Bear is. He holds a grudge and he gives no quarter--to grizzly bears or men....
17) Dead ice
Author
Language
English
Description
Anita Blake has the highest kill count of any vampire executioner in the country. She's a U.S. Marshal who can raise zombies with the best of them. But ever since she and master vampire Jean-Claude went public with their engagement, all she is to anyone and everyone is Jean-Claude's fiancée. It's wreaking havoc with her reputation as a hard ass -- to some extent. Luckily, in professional circles, she's still the go-to expert for zombie issues. And...
Author
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
Language
English
Description
It is the winter of 1879, and Dodge City has lost its snap. Thirty-one-year-old Wyatt Earp, assistant city marshal, loads his wife and all they own into a wagon, and goes with two of his brothers and their women to Tombstone, Arizona, land of the silver mines. There Earp becomes deputy sheriff, meeting up with the likes of Doc Holliday, Clay Allison, and Bat Masterson and encountering the love of his life, showgirl Josie Marcus. While navigating the...
19) Shutter island
Author
Publisher
RBA
Pub. Date
2009, c2003
Language
Español
Description
Verano de 1954. El agente federal Teddy Daniels llega a Shutter Island, isla en la que está ubicado el hospital Ashecliffe, un centro penitenciario para enfermos mentales. Junto con su compañero, Chuck Aule, se propone encontrar a una paciente desaparecida, una asesina llamada Rachel Solando, a medida que un huracán azota la isla. No obstante, nada es lo que parece en el hospital Ashecliffe. Y Teddy Daniels tampoco. Ha ido hasta allá para encontrar...
20) Sucker punch
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A brutal murder, a suspect in jail, and an execution planned, but what if the wrong person is about to be executed? When a fellow U.S. Marshal asks Anita Blake to fly to a tiny community in Michigan's Upper Peninsula on an emergency consult, she knows time is running short. When she gets there, there is plenty of proof that a young wereleopard killed his uncle in the most gruesome and bloodiest way possible. As the mounting evidence points to him,...
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