Elmore Leonard

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  • Bibliography:
    90 Books (5 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1951
  • Latest Book:
    June 2015
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Full Series List in Order

Carl Webster

The Hot Kid (May-2005)
Up in Honey's Room (May-2007)
Comfort to the Enemy and Other Carl Webster Stories (Oct-2010)

Chili Palmer

1 - Get Shorty (Jul-1990)
2 - Be Cool (Feb-1999)

Frank Ryan

1 - Swag // Ryan's Rules (Mar-1976)
2 - Unknown Man #89 (May-1977)

Jack Foley

1 - Out of Sight (Aug-1996)
2 - Road Dogs (May-2009)

Raylan Givens

1 - Pronto (Sep-1993)
2 - Riding the Rap (May-1995)
2.5 - Fire in the Hole (Nov-2002)
3 - Raylan (Jan-2012)

Book List in Order: 90 titles

  • Trail of the Apache

    The New York Times-bestselling Grand Master of suspense deftly displays the other side of his genius, with seven classic western tales of destiny and fatal decision . . . and trust as essential to survival as it is hard-earned.Trust was rare and...

  • Apache Medicine

  • Cavalry Boots

  • The Colonel's Lady

  • Law of the Hunted Ones

  • Red Hell Hits Canyon Diablo

  • You Never See Apaches...

  • 3:10 to Yuma

    The New York Times-bestselling Grand Master of suspense deftly displays the other side of his genius, with seven classic western tales of destiny and fatal decision . . . and trust as essential to survival as it is hard-earned.Trust was rare and...

  • The Big Hunt



  • Blood Money

    The New York Times-bestselling Grand Master of suspense deftly displays the other side of his genius, with seven classic western tales of destiny and fatal decision . . . and trust as essential to survival as it is hard-earned.Trust was rare and...

  • The Bounty Hunters

    The old Apache renegade Soldado Viejo is hiding out in Mexico, and the Arizona Department Adjutant has selected two men to hunt him down. One--Dave Flynn--knows war, the land, and the nature of his prey. The other is a kid lieutenant named Bowers. Bu...

  • The Boy Who Smiled

  • The Hard Way

  • The Last Shot

  • Long Night

    PERIL PRESS presents: Zane Grey’s Western, May 1953 LONG NIGHT by Elmore Leonard Dove Boland needed money -- but he needed even more to learn that you don‘t get something for nothing. 4600 Words PLUS BONUS!!! Western Story, April 17 1943 DESER...

  • The Rustlers

  • Trouble at Rindo's Station

  • Under the Friar's Edge

  • The Law at Randado

    Phil Sundeen thinks Deputy Sheriff Kirby Frye is just a green local kid with a tin badge. And when the wealthy cattle baron's men drag two prisoners from Frye's jail and hang them from a high tree, there's nothing the untried young lawman can do abou...



  • Saint with a Six Gun

  • The Captives

  • Going Home

  • Jugged

  • No Man's Guns

  • Escape from Five Shadows

    New York Times Bestselling AuthorIt was supposed to be impossible. No man could break out of the brutal convict labor camp at Five Shadows. Until they locked up Bowen. He was like dynamite--charged to go off, to explode out of that desert hell so he ...

  • The Kid

    Carlos Webster was fifteen in the fall of 1921 the first time he came face-to-face with a nationally known criminal. A few weeks later, he killed his first man -- a cattle thief who was rustling his dad's stock. Now Carlos, called Carl, is the hot...

  • The Longest Day of His Life

  • Man with the Iron Arm

  • Moment of Vengeance and Other Stories

    Before he brilliantly traversed the gritty landscapes of underworld Detroit and Miami, the incomparable Elmore Leonard wrote breathtaking adventures set in America's nineteenth-century western frontier -- elevating a popular genre with his now-tradem...



  • The Nagual

  • Fury at Four Turnings

  • Bull Ring at Blisston

  • Last Stand at Saber River

    BLOOD OF A SOLDIER A one-armed man stood before Denaman's store, and the girl named Luz was scared. Paul Cable could see that from the rise two hundred yards away, just as he could see that everything had changed while he was away fighting for the Co...

  • Hombre

    “Although known for his mysteries, Elmore Leonard has penned some of the best western fiction ever.” -- USA TodayGrand Master Elmore Leonard is justifiably acknowledged as one of the very best crime fiction writers ever, alongside other all-time ...

  • Only the Good Ones

  • The Big Bounce

    Jack Ryan seemed destined for a dreary life of picking cucumbers and doing odd jobs as a handyman before he met Nancy Hayes, a young seductress who got her thrills by smashing windows and breaking the hearts of married men. On the bleak coast of nort...

  • The Moonshine War

    Prohibition is a big headache for some . . . and a big payday for others, the fearless entrepreneurs with little respect for the law of the land. With $125,000 worth of Kentucky's finest homemade whiskey in his possession, big, hell-raising Son Marti...

  • Valdez is Coming

    VALDEZ They only knew the hard-working, respectful Bob Valdez. In another place he had been something else, a dangerous man. A man who could track over parched ground and hide where there was no cover and rise up and kill an enemy with one shot. It...

  • Forty Lashes Less One

    The hell called Yuma Prison can destroy the soul of any man. And it's worse for those whose damning crime is the color of their skin. The law says Chiricahua Apache Raymond San Carlos and black-as-night former soldier Harold Jackson are murderers, an...



  • 52 Pick-Up

    52 Pickup is a rip-roaring thriller from master of crime fiction Elmore Leonard, the New York Times bestselling author of Raylan, Get Shorty, Killshot, and other novels of suspense.Detroit businessman Harry Mitchell has had only one affair in his twe...

  • Mr. Majestyk

    LIMITS... Vincent Majestyk had had enough -- enough fighting, enough war, enough death. He knew too well the feel of the recoil, the sight of a human target falling. That's why, when he took off his uniform and became a civilian, he swore he would ne...

  • Swag // Ryan's Rules

    Frank Ryan - 1

    Three guys with illegal expertise, a plan to snag a tax-free hundred grand, and a taste for summertime Detroit's sweet life. But it means committing armed robbery. And being smart enough to get away with it....

  • The Hunted

    “Wonderful…razor-sharp.” -- Los Angeles Times Book Review“Excellent….A plot and a chase as good as anything he has ever written.” -- Bergan RecordIn Elmore Leonard’s The Hunted, “crime fiction’s greatest living practitioner” (Was...

  • Unknown Man #89

    Frank Ryan - 2

    Jack Ryan was an expert at finding people. Particularly people who didn't want to be found. This time he was looking for a guy named Robert Leary, a/k/a Bobby Lear. But looking was leading to trouble. Because a pretty blond with bedroom eyes hated Bo...

  • The Switch

    “My favorite Leonard book….He writes the way Hammett and Chandler might write today, if they sharpened their senses of ironic humor and grew better ears for dialogue.” -- Dallas Morning News“The best writer of crime fiction alive.” -- New...

  • Gunsights

    Brendan Early and Dana Moon have tracked renegade Apaches together and gunned down scalp hunters to become Arizona legends. But now they face each other from opposite sides of what newspapers are calling The Rincon Mountain War. Brendan and a gang of...

  • Gold Coast

    “Lean, mean, darkly funny.” -- Boston Globe “A zingy thriller by the master of hard-boiled suspense.” -- Dallas Morning News“Elmore Leonard may be the greatest crime novelist in the world,” declares the Seattle Times, and truer words ha...

  • City Primeval: High Noon in Detroit

    Clement Mansell knows how easy it is to get away with murder. The cool killer is already back on the Detroit scene -- thanks to some nifty courtroom moves by his lawyer -- and he's feeling invincible enough to execute a crooked judge on a whim. L...

  • Split Images

    “Constant action and top-notch writing.” -- New York TimesA Palm Beach playboy who amuses himself with murder finds himself on a collision course with a vacationing Motown cop in Elmore Leonard’s Split Images -- a gripping and electrifying exa...



  • Cat Chaser

    “Cat Chaser is just what one would expect from Elmore Leonard -- quirky, peopled with oddball characters…and more twists and turns than a roller coaster.” -- Cleveland Plain Dealer“A superior example of gritty writing and violent action.” ...

  • The Tonto Woman

    Welcome to a world where the Hatch & Hodges stagecoach runs on time or someone will catch hell, and where a man knows the difference between handling a Winchester rifle and a Sharps and a Henry--or pays for it with his life.

    Before he became...

  • LaBrava

    FADE TO BLACK Ex-secret service agent Joseph LaBrava had it all under control. South Miami Beach action. Easy living in an old Deco hotel. A new start as a portrait photographer. Then he met Jean Shaw. A once-famous actress. Still soft, sexy, and s...

  • Stick

    “A slam-bang, no-bull action thriller…and nobody but nobody writes better dialogue.”  -- New York Daily NewsIt’s an established fact: Elmore Leonard is “the uncontested master of the crime thriller” (Washington Post ) who “does cr...

  • Glitz

    “Intense….A higher caliber of entertainment.” -- New York TimesElmore Leonard’s Glitz is a killer…in the best possible way. “The King Daddy of crime writers” (Seattle Times) electrifies with this unputdownable noir tale of a mama’s bo...

  • Primevil

  • Bandits

    Bandits assembles an unlikely crew: an ex-nun, an ex-cop, and an ex-con. They've got their eyes on several million dollars that they've decided should not be sent to aid the Contras in Nicaragua. Of course, a lot of other people have their eyes on th...

  • Touch

    Touch is sensational suspense from the master of crime fiction, New York Times bestselling author Elmore Leonard. A Michigan woman was blind and now she can see, after being touched by a young man who calls himself Juvenal. Maybe it was just coi...

  • Dutch Treat

  • Freaky Deaky

    “Wonderfully wicked…a nonstop, pedal-to-the-metal romp.” -- Chicago TribuneOver-the-hill former counter-culture SDS revolutionaries decide to turn bomb-making -- and detonating -- from a political statement to a profitable enterprise in the ma...

  • Killshot

    “[Leonard has] written so many first-rate crime stories that it would be fatuous to say Killshot is his best, but it probably is anyway.” -- NewsweekThe New York Times bestselling author the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette once called, “the Alexander t...

  • Get Shorty

    Chili Palmer - 1

    Miami mob little-guy, loan shark Chili Palmer, is seriously thinking of a career change when a client skips town. Pursuit leads him to L.A.... and the rest, as they say, is history. As a crook, Chili has all the qualifications to make it in the movie...

  • Maximum Bob

    “Hilarious….Strange and risky….A right-on, pitch perfect novel, with wide social scope, comic genius, page-burning storytelling magic, and juicy characters who wrench your heart and gut.” -- Washington Post Book WorldA character so outrageou...

  • Rum Punch

    Pretty working-girl Jackie Burke is in a tight spot. She's just been picked up at  Palm Beach International with fifty grand and some blow stashed in her flight bag. Lucky for her, the  Feds want something Jackie's got: the inside track to Ordell...

  • Pronto

    Raylan Givens - 1

    “Speedy, exhilarating, and smooth. Nobody does it better.” -- Washington Post“The man knows how to grab you -- and Pronto is one of the best grabbers in years.” -- Entertainment WeeklyFans of U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens of the hit TV series ...

  • Hurrah for Captain Early

  • Riding the Rap

    Raylan Givens - 2

    “Wicked and irresistible….Elmore Leonard is a literary genius.” -- New York Times Book ReviewBefore U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens began electrifying TV viewers across America (in the hit series Justified), he “starred” in Elmore Leonard’s R...

  • Karen Makes Out

    in Murder for Love

    Sixteen stories about love gone wrong consider the link between romance and death and include contributions by such popular authors as Mary Higgins Clark, Jonathan Kellerman, Elmore Leonard, Ed McBain, and Joyce Carol Oates. Reprint....

  • The Odyssey

  • Out of Sight

    Jack Foley - 1

    Decked out in her black Chanel suit and heels, deputy U.S. marshal Karen Sisco has driven up to Glades, one of Florida's medium security joints, to serve some papers. It's a boring job, but somebody's got to do it. She doesn't expect to arrive in the...

  • Cuba Libre

    Welcome to Cuba, 1898--where the insurrectos are in the hills, the rich are partying in Havana, and Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders are about to come ashore. Into the melee an American cowboy arrives with a scheme to sell horses and run guns, earning ...

  • Hanging Out at the Buena Vista

  • Sparks

  • Be Cool

    Chili Palmer - 2

    GET SHORTY'S CHILI PALMER IS BACK. NO MORE MR. NICE GUY. After a smash hit in Get Leo and a flop in Get Lost, B-movie-producer Chili Palmer is looking for another score. Lunching with a record company executive, Chili's exploring a hot new idea--u...

  • Pagan Babies

    Father Terry Dunn thought he'd seen everything on the mean streets of Detroit, but that was before he went on a little retreat to Rwanda to evade a tax-fraud indictment. Now the whiskey-drinking, Nine Inch Nails T-shirt -- wearing padre is back tryin...

  • Chickasaw Charlie Hoke

  • Tishomingo Blues

    Daredevil Dennis Lenahan has brought his act to the Tishomingo Lodge & Casino in Tunica, Mississippi--diving off an eighty-foot ladder into nine feet of water for the amusement of gamblers, gangsters, and luscious belles. His riskiest feat, however, ...

  • Fire in the Hole

    Raylan Givens - 2.5

    In this superb short fiction collection, Elmore Leonard, “the greatest crime writer of our time, perhaps ever” (New York Times Book Review), once again illustrates how the line between the law and the lawbreakers is not as firm as we might think....

  • When the Women Come Out to Dance

    The unrivaled master of crime’s first collection of noir stories. . . . “If you thought you knew all the places Elmore Leonard could take you, think again.” -- Mike LupicaIn more than 30 books spanning half a century, Elmore Leonard has capture...

  • Mr. Paradise

    In hindsight, Victoria's Secret model Kelly Barr thinks maybe it wasn't such a great idea to accompany her callgirl roommate Chloe to Tony Paradiso's house. The wealthy, eighty-fouryear-old retired Motor City lawyer's idea of fun was innocent enough:...

  • A Coyote's in the House

    Buddy's an aging movie star. Antwan's a rough-and-tumble loner. And Miss Betty, the show girl, is a princess. Different in nearly every way, they share one thing: they're all dogs...at heart. Though Antwan's the leader of his pack and loves h...

  • The Complete Western Stories of Elmore Leonard

    The New York Times-bestselling Grand Master of suspense deftly displays the other side of his genius, with seven classic western tales of destiny and fatal decision . . . and trust as essential to survival as it is hard-earned.Trust was rare and...

  • The Hot Kid

    Carl Webster

    Carlos Webster was fifteen in the fall of 1921 the first time he came face-to-face with a nationally known criminal. A few weeks later, he killed his first man--a cattle thief who was rustling his dad's stock. Now Carlos, called Carl, is the hot kid ...

  • Up in Honey's Room

    Carl Webster

    The odd thing about Walter Schoen, German born but now running a butcher shop in Detroit, he's a dead ringer for Heinrich Himmler, head of the SS and the Gestapo. They even share the same birthday. Honey Deal, Walter's American wife, doesn't know...

  • Road Dogs

    Jack Foley - 2

    Legendary New York Times bestselling author Elmore Leonard returns with three of his favorite characters: Jack Foley from Out of Sight, Cundo Rey from LaBrava, and Dawn Navarro from Riding the Rap. Jack Foley, the charming bank robber from Out of...

  • Comfort to the Enemy and Other Carl Webster Stories

    Carl Webster

    The "Hot Kid" of the U.S. Marshals Service, Carl Webster maintains the law with a cool, showdown attitude. He's one of the richest creations in Elmore Leonard's half century of delivering the goods. From his appearances in the critically acclaimed no...

  • Djibouti

    Dara Barr, documentary filmmaker, is at the top of her game. She's covered the rape of Bosnian women, neo-Nazi white supremacists, and post-Katrina New Orleans, and has won awards for all three. Now, looking for a bigger challenge, Dara and her right...

  • Raylan

    Raylan Givens - 3

    With the closing of the Harlan County, Kentucky, coal mines, marijuana has become the biggest cash crop in the state. A hundred pounds of it can gross $300,000, but that's chump change compared to the quarter million a human body can get you -- espec...

  • Confession

    In this never-before-published story, Elmore Leonard, the late “modern master of American genre writing,” puts a darkly playful twist on the Wild West showdown. Set in a dusty Arizona town when Apaches still roamed the land, “Confession” tell...

  • The Trespassers

    This never-before-published story is a chilling forebear to the tales that made the late, great Elmore Leonard the “King Daddy” of crime with a twist. Told from the perspective of a young wife who’s become increasingly frustrated with her mild-...

  • Charlie Martz and Other Stories

    A collection of fifteen stories, eleven of which have never been previously published, from the early career of bestselling American master Elmore Leonard. Over his long and illustrious career, Elmore Leonard was recognized as one of the greatest ...

Award-Winning Books by Elmore Leonard

LaBrava
1984 Edgar Allan Poe Award -- Novel
Maximum Bob
1992 Hammett -- Best Novel
Tishomingo Blues
2003 Audies -- Solo Narration-Male
Up in Honey's Room
2008 Michigan Notable Books -- Notable Book


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Elmore Leonard has published 90 books.

Elmore Leonard does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Charlie Martz and Other Stories, was published in June 2015.

The first book by Elmore Leonard, Trail of the Apache, was published in January 1951.

Yes. Elmore Leonard has 5 series.
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