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Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"Broken Back, West Texas, is a town under siege. Mescaleros who once rode with Geronimo wreak havoc near town limits. Frank James, brother of the legendary Jesse, sits in a jail cell awaiting trial for murder. And a gang of bandits meaner than rattlesnakes and just as quick to kill has just robbed the bank. In their wake, four orphans mourn their banker father, and the townsfolk are left with a paralyzed sheriff and his new deputy. Deputy Sheriff...
83) Henry's Crime
Pub. Date
c2010
Description
After being wrongly accused of a bank robbery, a man is released from prison and decides to commit the crime he was imprisoned for.
85) Silver surprise
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
"When Sadie Speer's grandson, Theo Macomb, finds an old ledger at a yard sale in Denver, he eagerly shows it to her. Oddly, the book contains diary entries, not numbers. It seems to hold clues to an unsolved Silver Peak bank robbery that implicated the father of James Morgan, the current bank president and Edwin Marshall's opponent for the mayoral race. Theo tells his friends about the book, inadvertently renewing speculation about the scandal and...
Pub. Date
c2003, c2002
Description
D.O.A. is the story of Frank Bigelow who while on vacation in San Francisco is poisoned by a deadly slow-acting poison. Can he find his murderer before time runs out? Detour is the story of a man's pursuit of the woman he loves that is blocked by fate and another woman. Impact is the story of Walter Williams, a wealthy industrialist whose vicious, two-timing wife, Irene, and her lover, Jim Torrance, plot his death in an "Accidental" car crash. In...
Author
Series
Sadie Walela mysteries volume 1
Pub. Date
[2003]
Description
Sadie Walela's life is about to be turned upside down.One morning Sadie unlocks the door at the Mercury Savings Bank and confronts a robber who's been lying in wait for her and her fellow employees. He flees after stealing money and killing her coworker. When a whirlwind of events leaves Sadie herself under suspicion, she sets out to clear her name.This banker turned sleuth is suddenly plunged into an unfamiliar world in which people are not always...
89) Going in style
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
When their pension funds become a corporate casualty, three elderly men decide to organize a bank robbery.
90) Widow's tears
Author
Series
China Bayles mysteries volume 21
Pub. Date
2013.
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Description
After losing her husband, five children, housekeeper, and beautiful home in the Galveston Hurricane of 1900, Rachel Blackwood rebuilt her home and later died there, having been driven mad with grief. In present-day Texas, Claire, the grandniece of Rachel's caretaker, has inherited the house and wants to turn it into a bed-and-breakfast. But she is concerned that it's haunted, so she calls in her friend Ruby- who has the gift of extrasensory perception...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
"Elwood's deputy "Moosejaw" Hendricks is one of the fastest draws in the territory -- and it's the best kept secret in the West. But when Moosejaw guns down three notorious outlaws in an attempted bank robbery, word gets around. And news travels fast. So fast that every tinhorn west of the Mississippi heads for Buffalo Peak to prove they're the fastest gun. These half-cocked lunatics want to challenge Moosejaw to a showdown. The bodies of would-be...
94) Camille
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
When Anne is attacked and stalked by a bank robber she can identify, Commandante Camille Verhoeven vengefully breaks all the rules to protect the woman he loves.
95) Life or death
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
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Description
"Why would a man serving a long prison sentence escape the day before he's due to be released? Audie was sentenced to ten years for a Texas robbery in which four people died, including two members of his own gang. Seven million dollars have never been recovered from the robbery, and everybody believes Audie knows where the money is. For a decade Audie has been beaten, stabbed, and threatened by inmates and guards, all desperate to know the secret....
Author
Series
Will Tanner U.S. deputy marshal volume 5
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
"It starts with a prison break in Missouri. When notorious bank robber Ansel Beaudry busts out, he teams up with five other outlaws. Then he and his gang rob a bank in Kansas. Now they're crossing state lines into Oklahoma Indian Territory. And that's where U.S. Marshal Will Tanner steps in. Other marshals from Kansas and Missouri have already lost the trail. Which means Tanner has to go it alone. Deep in the wilderness. Outnumbered and outgunned....
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Luke Jensen brings a body to Rio Rojo. After all, it's his job, and he's going to get paid. But before he can collect the bounty for killing a killer, two notorious criminals hit the Rio Rojo bank. Now Luke can't get paid unless he catches professional bandit Gunner Kelly and his Apache sidekick Dog Eater. Unfortunately, a would-be man hunter is after the money-toting outlaws, too, and young Hobie McCullough is mostly a menace to himself. With a green...
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
Documents the story of a teen Colorado star and aspiring U.S. Army Ranger who inexplicably helped commit an armed robbery hours before being deployed to Iraq, describing the efforts of the author, his first cousin, to investigate the influence of the young man's superior and the darker practices of the Ranger indoctrination program.