Larry D Sweazy Books in Order

Widowed Josiah Wolfe rejoins the Texas Rangers while raising his infant son. His first assignment is escorting former friend Charlie Langdon to trial, but the outlaw's allies turn the journey into a fight for Josiah's survival.

Texas Ranger Josiah Wolfe moves his young son to Austin, hoping to begin again after personal losses. Before rejoining the Frontier Battalion, he stops to check on old friend Juan Carlos, whose troubles threaten those plans.

While tracking a raiding party, Josiah Wolfe is captured by two Comanche scouts collecting an outlaw's bounty. As they take him toward gang leader Liam O'Reilly, Josiah must discover why he is wanted and find a way out.

Hostile public opinion drives Josiah Wolfe away from Austin on an undercover assignment in Corpus Christi. Posing as someone else, he investigates raids on local ranchers and pursues Juan Cortina while longing to return to his son.

Josiah Wolfe's friend Scrap Elliot faces execution for a saloon murder he didn't commit. A familiar horse and a coded clue draw Josiah into Austin's financial and criminal circles as he races to uncover the real killer.

A drought exposes a child's skeleton near an Indiana town, reopening a disappearance from nineteen years earlier. When the town marshal is shot, deputy Jordan McManus investigates while suspicion and a killer's attention turn toward him.

Josiah Wolfe and fellow Ranger Scrap Elliott pursue a plan to ship stolen Texas cattle to Cuba. Sent to gather intelligence near the coast, they face Juan Cortina's men while Josiah struggles with the direction of his life.

Framed for murdering his business partner, Lucas Fume escapes prison with fellow inmate Zeke Henry. In St. Louis, he discovers the supposed victim alive and prosperous, forcing him to challenge a powerful enemy while evading the law.

Having cleared his own name, Lucas Fume refuses to leave his friend Zeke under a false murder charge. The effort to secure Zeke's freedom puts Lucas against a corrupt senator and his son, whose power makes justice dangerous.

In 1964 North Dakota, a murdered neighbor's mysterious copper amulet brings freelance indexer Marjorie Trumaine into an investigation. Her research draws her closer to the killer while she balances paid work with caring for her disabled husband.

An amputated arm forces Sonny Burton out of the Texas Rangers, but a hospital janitor asks him to find his missing daughter. The search unfolds alongside killings of young women, pulling Sonny into danger despite his retirement.

When Dickinson's librarian dies in an apparent suicide, Marjorie Trumaine doubts the official explanation. Despite indexing deadlines and her husband's worsening health, she investigates inconsistencies that expose hidden secrets and threats from someone determined to protect them.

Detective Hud Matthews returns to his hometown hoping to explain his mother's long-ago disappearance. A new murder investigation draws him into the lakeside community's buried history, where pursuing answers makes him a target and tests his idea of justice.

Grieving her husband's death during a harsh North Dakota winter, Marjorie Trumaine joins the search for a missing teenage girl. The discovery of a murdered man raises questions that connect the disappearance to secrets beyond their community.

Retired Texas Ranger Sonny Burton is called back to track escaped prisoner Billy Bunson, who has abducted a pregnant woman. Working with his son Jesse, Sonny must anticipate an adversary he has encountered across many years.

Josiah Wolfe leaves the Rangers and returns home to a bitter land feud involving families with grievances against him. When the county sheriff is murdered, Josiah becomes a suspect and must face his former comrades' judgment.

Deputy Marshal Trusty Dawson escorts a judge and an executed outlaw's sister across Indian Territory, only to suffer a deadly ambush. Tracking the vanished woman requires help from her priest brother, whose motives Trusty increasingly questions.

During the Depression, retired Ranger Sonny Burton investigates trouble surrounding a friend's cousin and a Civilian Conservation Corps job. With a circus stirring local suspicion and his son's employment threatened, he confronts corruption and violent prejudice.

After his wife's death in childbirth, Trusty Dawson becomes the target of her wealthy father's vengeance. A bounty draws killers across Dakota Territory as the deputy marshal fights to protect his daughter and confront the man responsible.

Eleven Western stories follow characters confronting harsh landscapes, isolation and adversity, with mysteries and supernatural elements among their struggles. Origin stories for Josiah Wolfe, Trusty Dawson and Sonny Burton accompany the new title story.

Sixteen-year-old Hallie Mae Edson joins the Indiana Rangers to prove her abilities as a hunter and shooter. Searching alone for a missing rival tests her survival skills when armed men threaten to provoke conflict in the territory.