Michael Zimmer Books in Order

Range detective Luke Howard is hired to stop widespread cattle rustling in Nebraska Territory, only to suspect the real power behind it may be closer than he thinks. It is a hard western about corruption, loyalty, and gun work.

A raid on Jesse Ross's Missouri farm leaves him branded traitor and murderer while he is still just a boy. Forced into a ranger company during the Civil War, he grows into a legend while learning how much violence really costs.

After a stagecoach attack on the Kansas prairie, Clint Dawson helps a desperate band of travelers race for shelter at Cottonwood Station. Inside the outpost, outlaws, Cheyenne warriors, and fear make survival as dangerous as the open plains.

A band of young mountain men heads into the western wilderness chasing beaver pelts and a shot at fortune. Horse thieves, treachery, brutal weather, and a relentless enemy turn the expedition into a hard fight to stay alive.

Raised by the Kiowa after being born into slavery, Clay Little Bull leaves the only home he has known to search for freedom. Crossing a violent West with hunters, freedmen, and an Indian woman, he has to decide where he truly belongs.

Johnny Montana and his partners want only to get their summer gold out of the Redhawk Mining District before winter closes in. A murderous gang blocks every route, turning one escape mission into a brutal test of nerve and endurance.

Young teamster Buck McCready becomes wagon boss after his mentor is murdered, just as a make-or-break freight race begins in 1874 Utah. To win and survive, he has to uncover a saboteur and a killer hiding close to home.

Jacob Wilder and his sons refuse to be pushed aside as Montana changes around them. With the buffalo gone, the Sioux confined, and new money claiming the land, the family digs in for a bitter fight over home and place.

In 1832, veteran hunter Big John McTavish rescues a mountain man and unknowingly brings danger back to the Red River métis settlements. Family secrets, old loyalties, and outside power struggles turn the buffalo grounds into contested country.

After Montana vigilantes hang her husband and burn her cabin, Rose Edwards sets out across a West closing around hunters, trappers, and Native people. Her long fight for survival turns her into an unlikely outlaw and defender of the land she loves.

When a stage carrying mine payroll is robbed in the Arizona desert, shotgun guard Tom Slade gives chase alone on a worn-out mule. Claire Adams and the mysterious Charlie Red turn a straight manhunt into something far riskier.

After the McCandles gang devastates Coalville, Idaho, seventeen-year-old Joseph Roper goes after the killers and kidnappers with little more than grit and fury. Told as a later recollection, it is a harsh coming-of-age western about justice and legend.

Boone McCallister looks back on an 1864 cattle drive through frontier Florida that turns into a bloody family feud. When outlaws burn his ranch and kidnap Lena, he has to ride into dangerous country and bring her back.

After three white men walk free for his mother's murder, sixteen-year-old Billy Pinto strikes back and kidnaps the judge's granddaughter. Sheriff Hudson Pratt must find boy and child before vengeance ignites a wider war.

Wil Chama tries to bury his past by hauling salt in Rio Tinto, Texas, until a powerful employer recruits him for a land and water fight. Old guilt and his reputation as a gunman drag him back toward violence.

Half frozen and carrying a gunshot wound, Gil Ryan rides into Larkspur just before a blizzard and stumbles into a brewing range war. Mistaken for the enemy, he has to rally townspeople and face the killer who murdered his brother.

After killing the rich man's son while defending his sister's honor, nineteen-year-old Gage Pardell runs into the buffalo country of West Texas. Bounty hunters, lawlessness, and his own conscience force him to decide what kind of man he will be.

J.T. Latham can earn a pardon by guiding a ransom convoy through Sonora after bandits seize an American woman and her children. The job means hostile desert, scarce water, revolutionaries, and danger that keeps getting worse.

This short western first appeared in a frontier-story anthology and later became a Spur Award finalist. It offers a compact dose of Old West tension and strong period atmosphere.

This western short story first appeared in Contention and Other Frontier Stories and went on to win the Spur Award for Best Western Short Fiction. It is a brief, concentrated piece built around frontier pressure and consequence.

Sergeant Andrew Cade chases the Hollister Gang into Mexico to rescue three kidnapped women after a Texas raid. As outlaws, bounty hunters, and Apache country collide around Villa Lobos, the pursuit becomes a savage fight for survival.

When a long feud leaves Elijah Two-Buck homeless, he joins his brother Kid Jace and a band of rustlers. Their bid for revenge against a powerful plantation owner becomes a reckoning with greed, blood ties, and frontier injustice.

When terrified accountant Simon Tully bursts into Lafe Doyle's office with mob killers close behind, Lafe helps him run for the FBI in Salt Lake City. The escape is only the start of a case full of pursuit, loose ends, and organized crime.

Local gangsters are turning up dead, and the pattern leads straight toward Lafe Doyle's own buried past. Pressured to investigate quietly, he digs into an old crime and realizes the killer may be coming for him next.

In 1945 Ogden, private detective Lafayette "Lafe" Doyle searches for a missing prostitute while murdered women begin turning up along Two-Bit Street. Corrupt cops, a flimsy case against his friend Titus, and a ticking clock make the job personal.

Angela Quinn, a Harley-riding Las Vegas dancer in drug court, sees a murder case become her shot at keeping her life from collapsing. As a bail bondsman and a homicide detective chase connected leads, the city keeps opening into something darker.