Bill Brooks

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  • Bibliography:
    44 Books (5 Series)
  • First Book:
    May 1992
  • Latest Book:
    November 2022
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Full Series List in Order

Dakota Lawman

Last Stand at Sweet Sorrow (Feb-2005)
Killing Mr. Sunday (Jun-2005)
The Big Gundown (Oct-2005)

A John Henry Cole Story

Blood Storm (Apr-2012)
Frontier Justice (Dec-2012)
Winter Kill (Jul-2013)
Ride the Man Down (Dec-2013)
Men of Violence (May-2014)
Go and Bury Your Dead (Dec-2014)

The Journey of Jim Glass

1 - Rides a Stranger (Jan-2007)
2 - A Bullet for Billy (Jul-2007)
3 - The Horses (Jan-2008)

Law for Hire

1 - Protecting Hickok (Jul-2003)
2 - Defending Cody (Nov-2003)
3 - Saving Masterson (Feb-2004)

A Quint McCannon Adventure

Return to No Man's Land (Oct-2000)

Book List in Order: 44 titles

  • The Badmen

  • The Last Law There Was

    Seeking revenge against the infamous outlaw that killed his father, young Ivory Cade and his best friend Albert Sand seek help from Augustus Monroe but fear that his legendary reputation as a lawman may exceed his actual abilities. Original....

  • Old Times

    Author of the Dakota Lawman seriesAs Nate Love placed the flowers on his murdered son's grave, he thought that he shouldn't have had a son so late in his life. He wondered who it was would shoot that boy in the back over one damn cow? It was the crue...

  • Deadwood

    A tale of the American West takes place in the town of Deadwood, where the elusive killer of three prostitutes runs free, in a story that brings together such characters as Doc Holliday, Wild Bill Hickok, and Calamity Jane. Original....

  • Dust on the Wind

    Having returned home to Cheyenne only to find his best friend and partner murdered, Quint McCannon heads out into the dangerous frontier in search of a crazed killer, determined to stop him at all costs. Original....

  • Leaving Cheyenne

    IT WAS THE WINTER WHEN HORSES FROZE. MEN WENT CRAZY-AND WOMEN WEPT. Quint McCannon had fought and survived the Civil War -- and faced killers and madmen across the frontier. But nothing had prepared him for one brutal winter in Cheyenne. Or for a ...

  • Return to No Man's Land

    A Quint McCannon Adventure

    Bitter over the loss of his family and livelihood, Quint McCannon accepts a job from a chief of the Indian Police to undertake a suicide mission to stop the vicious Caddo Pierce and his gang of Native American outlaws, who have been cutting a deadly ...

  • The Stone Garden: The Epic Life of Billy the Kid


    The White Sands Region, New Mexico, 1908. It is twenty-seven years after the alleged death of Billy the Kid and rumors abound throughout New Mexico and the United States that the Kid is still alive. Those who believe him dead, are labeling the Ki...

  • Protecting Hickok

    Law for Hire - 1

    Killing the Legend City life is all Teddy Blue has ever known -- until the craven murder of his brother, a Chicago policeman, changes his world overnight. Determined to hunt down the killer, he joins the Pinkerton Detective Agency and buries all t...



  • Pretty Boy

    The Great Depression has brought with it hard times like nobody has ever seen. It's the era of gangsters G-Men hobos and soup lines. Indeed the future looks as dark as an Okie dust storm at least to those old enough to know better.

    Two young...

  • Defending Cody

    Law for Hire - 2

    A Bullet for Buffalo Bill No one knows better than the great showman William Cody what a burden fame can be, especially when he has to move quickly to narrowly dodge an assassin's bullet. Organizing a hunting party for himself and some would-be i...

  • Bonnie and Clyde: A Love Story

    She preferred guys with an edge to them. Bad Boys, her mama called them.

    Then one night she met Clyde and knew her mama was right. If there was ever a bad boy, it was Clyde Chestnut Barrow. He had that look: those dark secretive eyes that neve...

  • Saving Masterson

    Law for Hire - 3

    A Bad Place to Die When Wyatt Earp and his brothers left Dodge City, they left the job of keeping the peace to young Bat Masterson. But a lawman's badge is little more than a target in this rough, wide-open frontier town where, for every citizen wh...

  • Last Stand at Sweet Sorrow

    Dakota Lawman

    Jake Horn was a healer -- until he was falsely accused of murder and had to run. Now the hands he once used to cure the ailing have a new purpose: wrapped around the handles of twin six-guns. A good man in a bad town Aptly named, the town of Sw...

  • Killing Mr. Sunday

    Dakota Lawman

    Jake Horn once used his hands to heal -- now the same hands kill. He was on the dodge for a crime he didn't commit when the town of Sweet Sorrow took him inand rewarded him with a badge he never wanted. Still, this out-of-the-way Dakota hellhole is a...

  • The Big Gundown

    Dakota Lawman

    A talented healer forced to become a fugitive for a killing he wasn't responsible for, Jake Horn found sanctuary in the rough Dakota town of Sweet Sorrow -- and in the tin badge that marks him as the local law. Now his discovery of a dead ranch hand ...

  • Rides a Stranger

    The Journey of Jim Glass - 1

    Coffin Flats, New Mexico, is a nothing town in the middle of nowhere--which suits Jim Glass just fine. Looking for any job, he's courted by the local brothel owner--because Jim is good with his fists as well as his gun--but instead he is hired by Mar...

  • A Bullet for Billy

    The Journey of Jim Glass - 2

    Captain Gus Rodgers of the Texas Rangers is dying--and before he goes, he needs Jim's help to free his grandson from a Mexican prison. Trouble is, the Federale general holding him wants the head of the boy's brother, Billy, who has already confessed ...

  • The Horses

    The Journey of Jim Glass - 3

    Jim Glass' long-sought peace is shattered when the ex-soldier and ex-Ranger discovers six of his corralled horses dead, their throats slit. Though he dreads doing so, he'll strap on his weapons and go hunting for the culprit--because someone capable ...



  • Vengeance Trail

    Johnny Montana has racked up a lot of enemies in his days as a gambler, road agent and killer. And it seems the law has finally caught up with him. Shooting a U.S. senator was the last straw. But it's a long way across Indian Territory to get Johnny ...

  • Dakota Lawman

    A talented healer, forced to become a fugitive for a murder he didn't commit, Jake Horn found sanctuary in the town of Sweet Sorrow - and the tin badge that marks him as a lawman. Now his discovery of a dead ranch hand is bringing his demons home....

  • Buscadero

    Johnny Montana was tall and dark, and sport a thin, neatly trimmed mustache and he had midnight black eyes. He was particular about his person; he shaved regular and put rosewater in his hair and preferred clean shirts when he could get them…Johnny...

  • The Messenger

    Reeling from the death of his son, a down-on-his-luck rancher witnesses a random murder that pits him head-to-head with a blood-thirsty outlaw!Royce Blood had everything he wanted. He owned a small ranch on good land, and he and his wife, Ophelia, ha...

  • Billy the Kid A Love Story

    What if Pat Garrett didn't kill the Kid that night in 1881 down in Ft. Sumner? And what happened to the young widow of Billy's best friend, Manuella Bowdre? And what of the mysterious murder some twenty years later in the White Sands and no one coniv...

  • THE SHORT UNHAPPY LIFE OF TOM DOOLEY

    The Short Unhappy Life of Tom Dooley is of a returned Civil War veteran, Tom, who becomes romantically and physically involved with a married woman, Ann Melton,one of three cousins in the small village of Happy Valley, N.C. in 1868. Tom is also attra...

  • Blood Storm

    A John Henry Cole Story

    Business lately has been deadly for Ike Kelly. Recent unexpected gunplay has left his agency to a single operative. John Henry Cole is that operative. Kelly has received a letter from former lover Lydia Winslow, who operates an escort service in the ...

  • Frontier Justice

    A John Henry Cole Story

    John Henry Cole is an operative of Ike Kelly's Detective Agency, based out of Cheyenne, Wyoming Territory. Returning to Cheyenne from what had been a deadly assignment in Deadwood, Dakota Territory, Cole has decided that he has no alternative but to ...

  • Winter Kill

    A John Henry Cole Story

    The winter around Cheyenne Wyoming that year was devastating killing both people and livestock. John Henry Cole was three miles out of town on his small ranch waiting out the storm that was quickly killing his cattle and horses and starting to feel a...

  • Ride the Man Down

    A John Henry Cole Story

    In this riveting western featuring the rugged John Henry Cole, Cole receives an urgent and puzzling summons from Judge Parker to appear in court. John Henry Cole, working as a deputy US marshal out of Judge Isaac Parker's court in Fort Smith, Arka...



  • Men of Violence

    A John Henry Cole Story

    John Henry Cole had worked for years as a lawman and then as a detective for an agency out of Cheyenne, Wyoming. It was this work that he enjoyed, despite its dangers, that had inspired him to establish his own agency. He gathered ex-lawmen like hims...

  • Go and Bury Your Dead

    A John Henry Cole Story

    John Henry Cole's life has quieted down from what it had always been, and he can now settle down and make improvements on his small ranch. But everything changes when an old rancher named Wilson rides in with his two sons. Wilson is willing to pay Co...

  • The Righteous Revenge of Lucy Moon

    When Lucy Moon learns of her mama’s murder, she cuts short her honeymoon and returns to the Pistol Barrel of Oklahoma with her new husband in tow. It’s a wild and raucous land full of the kind of gunfighters, backshooters, gamblers and pimps who ...

  • Stolen Horses

    After an outlaw, Einer, catches a young boy attempting to steal his horses, he takes pity on the boy, hatching a plan with him to steal a herd of Mexican horses, but unbeknownst to Einer a determined Texas Ranger is tracking the boy....

  • Bill Doolin: American Outlaw

    Leader of the last of the great outlaw bands -- the Olklahombres, Bill Doolin outfoxed the law while trying to walk the line between being a good man and bad. He was a family man and a bank and train and stagecoach robber. By the end of his reign, al...

  • American Tragedy

    Some men return from war to a life of peace, and some never return at all. Tom Dooley returned from the Civil War and became embroiled in a tumultuous affair with Ann Foster Melton, a married woman. Their affair is openly known throughout the communi...

  • Tom Dooley

    Some men return from war to a life of peace, and some never return at all. Tom Dooley returned from the Civil War and became embroiled in a tumultuous affair with Ann Foster Melton, a married woman. Their affair is openly known throughout the communi...

  • Go Bury Your Dead

    John Henry Cole's life has quieted down from what it had always been, and he can now settle down and make improvements on his small ranch. But everything changes when an old rancher named Wilson rides in with his two sons. Wilson is willing to pay...

  • The Girl with the Flamenco Tattoo

    Until we get an ID, she is "the girl with the Flamenco Tattoo." Or at least, she was. Who is she, where did she come from, and how did she end up dead on the shore of a mountain lake? Billy Ray Blanco, a small town sheriff with higher aspirations,...

  • The Young Desperados

    Teenagers Albert Sand and Ivory Cade learn of an old friend's murder and decide to earn the money for his burial when fate intervenes in the form of a wealthy banker whose wife was kidnapped by the outlaw killer One-Eye Texas Jack Crowfoot and his...



  • Rides a Stranger + A Bullet for Billy

    From acclaimed Western author Bill Brooks, the first two books of his captivating “The Journey of Jim Glass” trilogy, now collected in one volume for the first time RIDES A STRANGER Coffin Flats, New Mexico, is a nothing town in the middle of...

  • Catch Me, Kill Me

    Truth is, everybody’s going to hurt you:you just got to find the ones worth suffering for. -- Bob Marley

    When Nina’s boyfriend Ray, uses her as collateral in a drug deal she realizes that you don’t know what love is until you’ve exp...

  • The Pistoleros

  • Renweard

    What does happen when we die? And where do we go? Norse cultures held the belief that a warrior who died in battle: an heroic death, would be rewarded with a place In Valhalla where they would spend their days fighting, training for the last great ba...

  • Moon's Blood

    • / Historical
    • Buy Buy

    Legendary gunfighter Ben Moon postpones his retirement and takes up his weapons once again to embark on a search for a little girl, the child given up at birth by the very special woman Ben loves. Original....

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Bill Brooks has published 44 books.

Bill Brooks does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Renweard, was published in November 2022.

The first book by Bill Brooks, The Badmen, was published in May 1992.

Yes. Bill Brooks has 5 series.
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