Sheldon Russell Books in Order

Doug Ryan takes a teaching job in the small railroad town of Monarch, Oklahoma, hoping for a fresh start after a failed romance. Instead he walks into a tense mix of intrigue, desire, and murder.

In war-torn Oklahoma Territory, Dr. McReynolds, Nurse Cromley, Corporal Renfro, Two Birds, and Lieutenant Sheets are thrown together on a brutal trek. Their search for a mysterious treasure becomes a hard frontier test of endurance, loyalty, and survival.

Set in the 1850s, this frontier novel follows military surgeon Doc McReynolds as he is ordered to establish a redoubt at Cimarron Crossing. Marching into dangerous country, he and the soldiers under him face revenge, exhaustion, and a deadly clash on the plains.

Creed McReynolds, the mixed-blood son of a Kiowa mother and an army doctor, arrives in Guthrie during the 1889 Oklahoma land rush determined to make his name. Opportunity, greed, and violence lift him high, but the cost keeps rising.

Near the close of World War II, Hook Runyon looks into the death of a coal picker found mangled under a train car by an Oklahoma POW camp. The case pulls him into black-market dealings, wartime nerves, and a murder no one wants examined.

After a California asylum burns, Hook is put in charge of security on a train carrying the survivors to Oklahoma. Deaths mount on the journey, and with only a few allies, he has to uncover a revenge plot before the trip ends.

Sent to an Arizona salvage yard near a tunnel vital to the war effort, Hook investigates the death of an army guard struck by a train. What looks like suicide or a love-triangle killing slowly starts to feel like something far more dangerous.

Archaeology grad student Jim Hunt heads to Lyons, Kansas, hoping a summer dig will rescue his stalled career. Instead he stirs up local anger, follows Coronado's shadow across two timelines, and finds that the hunt for buried riches can turn deadly.

When Hook Runyon finds a young man hanging from a lonely railroad signal, the only clue is a Bronze Star engraved with the name Samuel Ash. His search for the victim's family leads him to Carmen, Oklahoma, and a town full of buried secrets.

Postwar railroad detective Hook Runyon is shadowed by Ria Wolfe, a young forensic science student, when they find a mutilated runaway beneath a bridge. As more bodies turn up along the line, Hook has to hunt a killer moving through hobo camps and rail yards.

After the Civil War, Caleb Justin heads west with his friend Joshua Hart, hoping to join Sheridan's troops, but injury leaves him stranded on a violent prairie. Captivity, survival, and a chance encounter with Joan Monnet pull him toward the Washita campaign.

Growing up poor in rural Oklahoma, Jacob Roland wants education, love, and a life bigger than the one he inherited. But as mental illness tightens its grip, every possible escape comes with new loss and danger.

A character-driven novel about how old wounds keep shaping the present. As work trouble and family strain close in, the people at its center have to face the past they thought they had buried.

During the Great Depression, educated but stuck Liam takes a Federal Writers' Project job collecting stories in a Dust Bowl town. As he falls for artist Eden Sawyer, his interviews start uncovering jealousy, secrets, and danger close to home.

Ethan Poser takes a custodial job at the Carnegie Library when his life is already falling apart, then finds the body of his predecessor in a nearby park. A murder investigation, missing rare books, and his growing bond with librarian Anna Khole pull him deeper into trouble.