Page Murdock Books in Order

Deputy Page Murdock rides into Montana's Bitterroot Mountains in winter to arrest Bear Anderson, a man he knew growing up. He hopes to bring Anderson back alive for trial, but surviving the return journey becomes its own challenge.

Judge Blackthorne sends Deputy Page Murdock into North Dakota to capture Ghost Shirt, a renegade Cheyenne leader blamed for massacres. Murdock must pursue his quarry through badlands where sudden storms and floods can be as dangerous as gunfire.

Deputy Page Murdock arrives in Breen, Montana, pursuing an outlaw and finds himself appointed town marshal. Caught in a range dispute between powerful ranchers and smaller operators, he tries to enforce the law amid escalating violence.

Four lawmen have been found hanged in Montana, and Deputy Page Murdock investigates the killings. A renegade posse is targeting men who wear badges, forcing him to track the killers while avoiding becoming their next victim.

Page Murdock travels to New Mexico to pursue a corrupt sheriff and his supposedly dead brother. Posing as a retired gunman with a saloon interest, he enters a border town where old acquaintances complicate the assignment.

Deputy Marshal Page Murdock follows a vicious gang into northern Canada during a punishing winter. Far from familiar territory, he must overcome determined enemies and the wilderness itself to complete his pursuit and survive.

Hired killers keep arriving in Montana to eliminate Page Murdock, who follows their trail to San Francisco's Barbary Coast. Surrounded by corruption and criminal power, the marshal must discover who wants him dead and why.

Page Murdock goes undercover as a traveling preacher to track armed robbers in Texas. A hurried education in religion barely prepares the whiskey-drinking marshal for dangerous encounters and familiar faces that could expose his disguise.

Page Murdock travels by train into Mexico to investigate a former Confederate officer allegedly raising an army. With unreliable companions and a hostile desert ahead, he must prevent a campaign that could reignite the Civil War.

After Judge Blackthorne's death, Page Murdock escorts his remains across the country by rail. The journey prompts recollections of their work bringing law to Montana and the triumphs, losses, and contradictions of settling the frontier.