Nik Morton Books in Order

Before she became Sister Rose, Maggie Weaver was a Newcastle policewoman shattered by a brutal case. Now a nun running a London hostel, she cannot ignore the violence, gangs, and old enemies closing in around her.

Civil War veteran Jim Thorp rides into Bethesda Falls on grim business and finds old loyalties, buried feelings, and fresh violence waiting for him. The town forces him to confront what war made of him, and what it still costs.

A stage robbery and a ruthless tycoon's pressure campaign throw Bethesda Falls into turmoil. As Daniel McAlister returns to marry Virginia, he is pulled into a struggle over the town, the saloon, and the people standing in the way of greed.

Tana Standish, a British psychic spy, is sent into Cold War Czechoslovakia to mend a broken resistance network. A traitor, Soviet scrutiny, and a secret interrogation site make this a tense mission where escape may be as dangerous as capture.

Edited by Nik Morton, this Old West anthology gathers stories of damaged men, dangerous nights, stubborn women, revenge, robbery, and survival. It is built for readers who like their western fiction varied, vivid, and a little rough-edged.

One-handed Civil War veteran Corbin Molina heads for Walkerville carrying $300 and a lifetime of hard lessons. A stopped train robbery and an unexpected reunion pull him into a dangerous reckoning over money, loyalty, and what a life is worth.

When Clint Brennan tries to stop his wife's kidnappers, he is shot and left blind. Most men would stop there, but Clint sets out to find Belle anyway, turning loss and stubbornness into a hard western quest for justice.

Cash Laramie rides into a frontier contest where votes, power, and intimidation are tightly linked. What begins as election trouble soon turns murderous, and the line between public duty and private vengeance grows thin.

This collection of sixteen stories looks at grief, disability, war, forgiveness, and redemption across different lives and places. The tone is humane rather than sentimental, with each piece asking what people carry and how they keep going.

Laura Reid thinks her new teaching job on Tenerife will be a fresh start. Instead she is drawn into a dangerous web of crime, smuggling, and unwanted attraction, where even something as odd as tiger parts can lead to real violence.

Nik Morton tells Ronald Hudson's life story, from hardship, foster homes, and wartime upheaval to Royal Navy service and a long working life. It is a plainspoken memoir about endurance, damage, humour, and refusing to give in.

In 1892, aging gunman Sam Ransom learns that an old partner is dead and that the Meak twins are coming for the rest of them. He sets out to warn his surviving friends, and to face the long shadow of Bur Oak Springs.

Through the voice of private investigator Leon Cazador, this collection follows more than twenty cases across Spain. Some are dark, some funny, some quietly tragic, but all are rooted in people under pressure and the secrets they carry.

After a burglary leaves Gran dead, one family in Alverbank becomes part of a wider crisis of fear and anger. As a vigilante known as the Black Knight emerges, the novel asks how far justice can bend before it becomes something else.

A practical guide for writers who want to plan, draft, and finish a western quickly. Morton breaks the job into manageable steps, covering character, setting, research, plot, and the details that make frontier fiction feel alive.

Catherine Vibrissae, chemist, model, climber, and avenger, goes after the man behind the takeover of her father's company. Her hunt leads from Britain to Barcelona as she uncovers a sinister product, dangerous allies, and enemies who hit back hard.

When a Mexican circus leaves Conejos Blancos, ruthless men seize the town and the nearby silver mine. With the sheriff dead and citizens held hostage, the people left standing must decide whether they can fight back at all.

When thousands of red tellars darken the sky over Lornwater, innman Ulran sets out for Arisa with two uneasy allies. Their race against time leads through mountains, magic, assassins, and the dark heart of Floreskand.

Determined to finish her vendetta, Cat heads for Shanghai to face her old enemy at last. Human trafficking, drug running, and a plot that could inflame tensions between China and Japan make this her most dangerous mission yet.

After Barcelona, Cat and Rick take their crusade to Nice and then Northwest Africa, with the British authorities and hired killers both on their trail. Tangier, the High Atlas, and an enemy from Cat's past turn pursuit into survival.

Cash Laramie agrees to help a wealthy woman look for her missing brother and ends up in a nightmare of funerals, ambushes, and betrayal. Nearby, Gideon Miles escorts a suspect for trial and discovers the case may be badly wrong.

Laura Reid's quiet life on Tenerife does not stay quiet for long. What begins with teaching work turns into a dangerous tangle of smuggling, corruption, and desire, with the island's sunlit beauty hiding a much darker business.

A corpse from the sea opens a dark trail through present-day Malta. Journalist Maria Caruana and Detective Sergeant Attard find black magic, missing women, and a vampire named Zondadari waiting in the shadows beneath the holiday surface.

A collection of historical stories that moves through conflict, secrecy, and lives caught in larger events. Morton keeps the pieces brisk and readable while giving them enough period detail to feel rooted in real pressure.

Time agents Kyler Knightly and Damon Cole work to protect history for Continuity Inc. In these linked adventures, Kyler chases a threat into Roman Britain and then into vampire-shadowed Transylvania, where damaged timelines may have made fiction real.

A themed collection of short fiction ranging across science fiction, horror, ghost stories, and fantasy. Morton uses compact plots and sharp setups to explore strange encounters, unease, and the dark corners where genres overlap.

This volume gathers crime and adventure stories that show Morton's taste for movement, jeopardy, and moral ambiguity. Expect compact plots, varied settings, and characters who are rarely as safe, or as simple, as they first appear.

While Ulran is away, Lornwater slides toward revolt against King Saurosen. Ranell is drawn into conspiracy, murder, and open civil war, with the Black Sword, and the right to rule, hanging over every choice.

Leon Cazador recounts a run of cases in his own voice, bringing Spain's streets, coastlines, and buried hurts to life. The stories mix mystery, wit, sadness, and danger, with one private eye holding the whole collection together.

In Afghanistan in 1979, Tana Standish moves through a landscape of freedom fighters, Soviet pressure, and local rivalries. A kidnapping plot, double agents, and brutal exploitation force her to fight on political, physical, and psychic ground at once.

In 1975 Czechoslovakia, British psychic spy Tana Standish is sent to repair an underground network under Soviet pressure. A traitor, a secret complex, and hostile psychics turn the mission into a fight for her mind as well as her life.

Iran is in turmoil in 1978, and Tana Standish is sent in to assess what intelligence reports are missing. As SAVAK terror spreads and loyalties fray, she faces torture, betrayal, and a Soviet assassin closing in.

This collection brings together more speculative short fiction, mixing science fiction, ghosts, horror, and fantasy. The stories are varied in mood but connected by Morton's liking for human vulnerability, eerie turns, and unsettling ideas.

Sister Rose tries to protect a homeless woman from a local gang boss and is dragged back to Newcastle, the scene of her deepest trauma. Faith, grief, and a dangerous reckoning collide as traffickers and killers close in.

A western short story collection that ranges across the harder edges of frontier life. These tales bring strangers, violence, memory, and sudden justice into the same dusty landscape, with room for both action and a darker aftertaste.

Ulran must reach Arisa within seventy days to uncover the secret behind the red tellars' flight. Joined by a secretive ascetic and a seasoned warrior, he crosses a perilous fantasy world where prophecy and violence are already in motion.

After rebellion tears through Lornwater, rival factions converge on the dunsaron for treasure, power, and revenge. As Ulran struggles with injury and the new king faces threats on every side, old wounds turn into fresh bloodshed.

As signs point to the coming of a prophet, Floreskand edges toward another convulsion. Vengeance, imperial tension, abduction, and factional unrest pull old characters into new danger, while Lornwater struggles to survive what comes next.

When Leon Cazador finds the body of a fellow investigator, he is pulled into a brutal hunt for a child abuse ring. The case links Spain, British investigators, and predators who have counted on secrecy for far too long.

While on FBI liaison duty in Charleston, Leon Cazador becomes involved when a dead child is found missing a kidney. The trail leads toward kidnapped children, organ traffickers, and an enemy he has reason to fear and hate.

Leon Cazador takes aim at a Spanish organization that sells the ultimate thrill to rich clients, the chance to hunt human beings. With only a few weapons and little mercy in the field, the prey may have to become the hunter.

A desperate letter from a working girl in Yankton pulls Cash Laramie and Lenora into danger. Their search leads to the Dark Swan and a murky world of exploitation, where asking the right questions may get them killed.

This dystopian time travel novel links grief, memory, and history in a broken future. Morton uses speculative ideas to ask a harder question underneath the plot, what pain can be changed, and what must still be lived through.

After years away, Tana Standish returns to Argentina to gauge the junta and hunt a rogue CIA man tied to an old death. Her rescue mission soon drives her toward the Falklands and South Georgia as war begins to break.

A screenplay adaptation of *Chill of the Shadow*, reworking the Malta-set horror thriller into film form. Black magic, missing women, a vampire presence, and a skeptical investigation remain at the centre of the story.

A memoir and reflection on a long writing life, shaped by persistence more than sudden luck. Morton looks back on the work, setbacks, and small victories that eventually built a career across several different genres.