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1) True grit
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English
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True Grit is his most famous novel--first published in 1968, and the basis for the movie of the same name starring John Wayne. It tells the story of Mattie Ross, who is just fourteen years of age when a coward going by the name of Tom Chaney shoots her father down in Fort Smith, Arkansas, and robs him of his life, his horse, and $150 in cash money. Mattie leaves home to avenge her father's blood. With the one-eyed Rooster Cogburn, the meanest available...
Author
Series
Raylan Givens thrillers volume 2
Language
English
Description
"Wicked and irresistible....Elmore Leonard is a literary genius."
—New York Times Book Review
Before U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens began electrifying TV viewers across America (in the hit series Justified), he "starred" in Elmore Leonard's Riding the Rap—an explosive, twisty tale of a brazen Florida kidnap caper gone outrageously wrong. Chock full of wildly eccentric and deliciously criminal characters—including a psycho
...3) Open carry
Author
Series
Arliss Cutter novels volume 1
Language
English
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From New York Times bestselling author Marc Cameron,a thrill ride into the savage beauty of Alaska – where the wilderness is deadlier than any killer and a Tlingit girl's cold case murder makes even US Marshal Arliss Cutter's blood run cold.
"Cameron's novels hook you from the first line, cement your eyes to the page, and grip your heart in a vice. I can't think of another writer whose work I admire more." —WILLIAM KENT...
"Cameron's novels hook you from the first line, cement your eyes to the page, and grip your heart in a vice. I can't think of another writer whose work I admire more." —WILLIAM KENT...
4) Raylan
Author
Series
Raylan Givens thrillers volume 3
Language
English
Description
When Federal Marshall Raylan Givens squares off against a known offender, he will warn the man, "If I have to pull my gun I'll shoot to kill." Except this time he finds the offender naked in a bathtub, doped up and missing his kidneys. Raylan knows there's big money in body parts, but by the time he finds out who is making the cuts, he is lying naked in a bathtub himself, Layla, the cool transplant nurse, about to go for his kidneys. It turns out...
Author
Series
Andrea Oliver novels volume 2
Language
English
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Description
"A girl with a secret ... Longbill Beach, 1982. Emily Vaughn gets ready for prom night, the highlight of any high school experience. But Emily has a secret. And by the end of the evening, she will be dead. A murder that remains a mystery ... Forty years later, Emily's murder remains unsolved. Her friends closed ranks, her family retreated inwards, the community moved on. But all that's about to change. One final chance to uncover a killer ... Andrea...
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Language
English
Description
In the year 1954, U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels and his new partner, Chuck Aule, come to Shutter Island, home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane, to investigate an unexplained disappearance. Multiple murderess Rachel Solando is loose somewhere on this barren island, despite having been kept under constant surveillance in a locked, guarded cell. As a killer hurricane bears relentlessly down on the island, hints of radical experimentation...
7) The guardian
Author
Series
O'Malley series (Dee Henderson) volume 2
Language
English
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Description
U.S. Marshal Marcus O'Malley thought he knew the risks of the assignment going in. He was wrong. He never expected Shari to invade hisheart. He never expected her faith to change his life. He's been the guardian of the O'Malley family for two decades. Now he's the guardian of a woman being hunted by the best assassin in the world.
8) Neon prey
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Series
Language
English
Description
It was a relatively minor criminal matter, but enough that the U.S. Marshals obtained a warrant to enter the home. They didn't expect to unearth trophies from a score of killings. Now Lucas Davenport is on the trail of a serial murderer, one who was able to operate for years without notice or suspicion. But there's even more to this killer than meets the eye.
Author
Series
U.S. Marshals series volume 2
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Archaeologist Sarah Dunnemore rushes to New York when she hears her twin brother, Rob, has been seriously wounded in a sniper attack in Central Park.
10) Breakneck
Author
Series
Arliss Cutter novels volume 5
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"In Washington, DC, Supreme Court Justice Charlotte Morehouse prepares for a trip to Alaska, unaware that a killer is waiting to take his revenge--by livestreaming her death to the world. In Anchorage, Alaska, Deputy US Marshals Arliss Cutter and Lola Teariki are assigned to security detail at a judicial conference in Fairbanks. Lola is tasked with guarding Justice Townsend's teenaged daughter while Cutter provides counter-surveillance. It's a simple,...
Author
Series
Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch volume 8
Publisher
Wheeler Publishing Large Print
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Managing an influx of carpetbaggers, gamblers, thieves and other disreputables in prosperous Appaloosa, Cole and Hitch are challenged by a flashy and womanizing casino owner who proves slippery when he is implicated in a series of murders.
12) Stone cross
Author
Series
Arliss Cutter novels volume 2
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In a remote Alaskan village, Deputy US Marshal Arliss Cutter searches for a stone-cold killer amid a hotbed of corruption, lies, and long-buried secrets ... Winter comes early to the rural native community of Stone Cross, Alaska--and so does hunting season. Caribou and moose are a major source of food through the long, dark months ahead. But Arliss Cutter has come here for a very different game. A federal judge is receiving death threats and refuses...
13) Shutter Island
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
When U.S. Marshall Teddy Daniels arrives at the asylum for the criminally insane on Shutter Island, what starts as a routine investigation quickly takes a sinister turn. As the investigation unfolds and Daniels uncovers more shocking and terrifying truths about the island, he also learns there are some places that never let you go.
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
It is the winter of 1879, and Dodge City has lost its snap. Thirty-one-year-old Wyatt Earp, assistant city marshal, loads his wife and all they own into a wagon, and goes with two of his brothers and their women to Tombstone, Arizona, land of the silver mines. There, Earp becomes deputy sheriff, meeting up with the likes of Doc Holliday, Clay Allison, and Bat Masterson and encountering the love of his life, showgirl Josie Marcus. While navigating...
15) Stormland
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
They call it Stormland: a sprawling, largely abandoned region of the southeastern coast of the USA, where climate change's extreme weather conditions have brought about a ''perfect storm'' of perpetual tempests; where hurricane-strength storms return day after day, 365 days a year. The heart of Stormland is Charleston, South Carolina, a flooded ruin where hundreds of people remain for their own peculiar reasons; where thugs prey on the weak, and a...
16) The catch
Author
Series
US Marshals novels volume 3
Publisher
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"An Amber Alert meant to rescue a child puts two lives in danger, forcing Madison and Jonas into a race to find a woman who wants to stay hidden, a baby who needs to be found, and a murderer they've been tracking for years"--
17) Dark sky
Author
Series
U.S. Marshals series volume 4
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Deputy U.S. Marshal Juliet Longstreet has made her share of enemies, and now one of them is out of prison and threatening to kill her. Her mission: find him first. But hot on her suspect's trail is Special Forces officer Ethan Brooker, who has a way of dropping into Juliet's life without warning. Haunted by his wife's death, Ethan is a man Juliet knows she should avoid. And now he's focused on a related mission of his own and can't -- or won't --...
18) The chase
Author
Series
US Marshals novels volume 2
Publisher
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"US Marshal Madison James still can't remember the face of the person who shot her, but she's ready to get back to work. When she and Jonas Quinn go on the hunt for four fugitives wanted in a string of bank robberies, it's a race to see justice served-and the perpetrators will stop at nothing to avoid getting caught"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
An obsessive killer, a witness with secrets and a deputy US marshal with her own dark demons collide in this gripping mystery. Dylan was only a child when he and his friend stumbled onto a crime scene deep in the woods. His friend was killed that night. And Bruce Forrester, the man who had chased the boys in the woods, disappeared. But he's never stopped looking for the only living witness. Ever since, Dylan and his family have been on the run. Deputy...
Author
Series
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Cady Maddix survived a brutal upbringing--emotionally scarred but hardened--with a will for self-preservation. Hunting fugitives has given her life purpose and control. But when the Deputy US Marshal returns home to care for her Alzheimer's-stricken mother, a new case stirs old memories. Child killer Samuel Aldeen has broken out of a nearby facility for the criminally insane, and the authorities believe he was aided by accomplices, both inside and...
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