J.R. Sanders Books in Order

Orphan Joe Monday is sent west hoping for a family and a cowboy’s life, but finds himself exploited as farm labor. Joining a Texas cattle drive gives him another chance to prove his worth and discover where he belongs.

Fourteen largely forgotten lawmen of the American frontier receive accounts of their careers and deaths in the line of duty. Their stories reveal dangerous work and sacrifices that seldom earned the lasting fame of the West’s best-known figures.

Ten-year-old Emily considers herself too grown-up for Christmas until an inherited dollhouse carries her into 1905. Sharing the holiday with an unfamiliar family changes how she sees her own, while finding a way home becomes urgent.

In 1938, private investigator Nate Ross reluctantly searches Hollywood for a missing screenwriter. When the writer turns up dead, production sabotage and a decades-old Western crime pull Nate into a case where movie mythology conceals very real violence.

A minor theft investigation becomes murder in 1939 Los Angeles, and Nate Ross finds himself the key witness. Helping a fugitive former friend pits the private detective against hostile police, assassins and film pirates while reopening wounds from his past.

Hired to examine a suspicious suicide in Los Angeles, Nate Ross discovers evidence the police have ignored. The investigation draws him toward powerful figures and dishonest lawyers, while doubts about his own client threaten his ability to uncover the truth.

A silent-film star hires Nate Ross to retrieve a stolen painting, but the apparent thief is already dead. Investigating the ransom draws Nate into a disputed movie-set shooting and fresh violence among the Western performers connected to the case.