Frank Roderus

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  • Bibliography:
    56 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    March 1979
  • Latest Book:
    February 2014
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Full Series List in Order

Bowen & Baile

1 - Bowen & Baile (Aug-2012)
2 - Before I Die (Dec-2012)

Carl Heller

4 - The Turn-Out Man (Dec-1985)
5 - The Coyote Crossing (Dec-1985)
6 - The Dead Heat (Jan-1985)
The Oil Rig (Jul-1984)
The Rain Rustlers (Dec-1984)
The Video Vandal (Jan-2013)

Multi-Author Series List

Rivers West

15 - The Purgatory River (Jun-1997)

Book List in Order: 56 titles

  • The 33 Brand

  • Sheepherding Man

    • / General Fiction
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  • Old Kyle's Boy

    • / General Fiction
    • Buy Buy

    Copyright 1981, First Edition, ex-library, hardcover with dustjacket, 185 pages. SYNOPSIS: "When he was still a boy, Cyrus Tetlow's father and brother, Old Kyle and Kyle. Jr., were hanged as cattle rustlers by a mob of vigilantes. In the ensuing year...

  • Ordeal of Hogue Bynell

  • Leaving Kansas

    "

    Harrison Wilke is thoroughly sick of Redbluff, Kansas. The town is a boring dead end, filled with unlettered roughnecks. His uncle Stewart - from whom he stands to inherit the Running W Ranch - can't stand him. Harrison doesn't even have enough m...

  • The Oil Rig

    Carl Heller

  • Reaching Colorado

    Tenderfoot Harrison Wilke wondered about the three men: heavily armed, avoiding the town, carrying gold coin in their saddlebags. Alert. Surly. Arrogant. Robbers, Harrison concluded; they must have robbed a bank or a train. Harrison thought abou...

  • The Rain Rustlers

    Carl Heller

  • The Dead Heat

    Carl Heller - 6

    Heller's friend is looking forward to a million dollars, his prize quarter horse is the overwhelming favorite to win the Liquid Gold Futurity. But someone has other ideas, sinister ideas, and that's where Heller comes in. He agrees to protect the hor...



  • Finding Nevada

    "

    The final book in the Harrison Wilke trilogy

    Tenderfoot Harrison Wilke leaves Colorado and heads for Nevada. Harrison's oldest and best friend, John J. Trohoe, has died in a mysterious accident, and John J.'s will names Harrison sole inheri...

  • The Coyote Crossing

    Carl Heller - 5

  • The Turn-Out Man

    Carl Heller - 4

  • Stillwater Smith

    A lean and grizzled Civil War veteran, Stillwater Smith determines to keep his temper in check, until cattle rancher Asa Wheeler tries to take his property and forces him into a deadly showdown. Original....

  • The Name Is Hart

  • Duster

    Saddle up with Duster Dorwood in this coming-of-age western from award-winning author, Frank Roderus...With the end of the Civil War comes new hardships for 15-year-old Duster Dorwood and his family. After his father fails to return home and the urge...

  • The Cowboy

    Cowboy had been drifting ever since he left his home in Yellow House Creek, Texas, moving from ranch to ranch, following the work for 15 years. He had been saving the pay he sweated so hard for, and he reckoned there was enough to set himself up w...

  • Billy Ray and Good News

  • The Ballad of Bryan Drayne

    A long man against a lawless mob. Bryan Drayne accidentally killed a man. It wasn't hi fault, but nobody in town would believe that. All they knew or wanted to know was that this stranger would ay with his life when they got their hands on him. That ...

  • Home to Texas

    Charlie McMurty was only twenty-three years old and already the world was waiting to spread itself out at his feet. He brought a herd north, got a great price, bought a beauty of a saddle, and had enough left over once he repaid his neighbors to b...



  • Charlie and the Sir

    ONE TOUGH JOB Charlie Roy didn't know what he was getting into when he got mixed up with the Sir. He just thought he'd help out the spindly English gentleman who was being picked on by some of the local hardcases down near the train station. But i...

  • Journey to Utah

  • The Outsider

    1988, original mass market paperback edition, Signet / New American Library, NY. 174 pages. Western novel. A soldier has spent 10 years with the 10th Cavalry. Leon Moses, a black man with no friends, plans to settle down, if folks let him....

  • Billy Ray's 40 Days

  • J.A. Whitford & The Great California Gold Hunt

    Conman J. Aubrey Whitford finds himself aboard a ship heading for California, a victim of his own con game, and encounters hostile Indians, a hanging party, and a beautiful, apparently innocent, woman with con games of her own...

  • Mustang War

  • His Royal Highness, J. Aubrey Whitford

    In search of the little lady who swindled him and then stole his heart, J. Aubrey Whitford poses as a relative of Queen Victoria in order to get information out of the residents of a small Kansas town....

  • Potter's Fields

    Joe Potter, a cold-blooded killer who hides behind his badge, lives for the thrill of sudden bloodshed, booze, and women, but the moment of truth arrives when a Native American woman and her child force him to face the one thing he cannot destroy--hi...

  • The Purgatory River

    Rivers West - 15

    Caught in a flagrant indiscretion with his employer's daughter and pursued by some rather angry family members, likable and vibrant Aaron Bent flees to St. Louis and the frontier beyond. Forced, as a bond servant, to join a wagon convoy traveling wha...

  • Hayseed

    Arnie Rasmussen was a big guy, with the general build of a young ox, and he may not have known much, but he knew one thing: He loved Katherine Mulraney. Sure, she was too good for him; she was beautiful and fine, and he was, well, just Arnie. Just as...



  • Old Marsden

    Even though Cap is getting older, he can still sit a horse and his aim is near perfect, so when his beloved granddaughter is kidnapped, Cap sets out to rescue her and give the men responsible a taste of frontier justice. Original....

  • Jason Evers: His Own Story

    In a story of innocence lost in the Old West, notorious killer Jason Evers tells of his descent into the cold-hearted murder, beginning with his first killing as boy and following the long trail of dead bodies into manhood....

  • Trooper Donovan

  • Left to Die

    Falsely accused of stealing a wad of payroll cash from the miners at Willow Creek and unceremoniously strung up for the crime, Wes Johnson manages to survive his own hanging and plots his revenge against those who left him to die. Original....

  • Winter Kill

    They thought he was too old to fight back. They thought he was too tired to care. They thought wrong. Old Jug had been a ranch hand for more years than even he could remember -- and he wasn't getting any younger. Though not as quick or tough as he u...

  • Dead Man's Journey

    After losing an arm in a shipboard attack, former sea captain Alex Adamley abandons his seafaring life and embarks on a journey across the country to Colorado, armed with a family deed to an old mining claim, but he soon discovers that greedy enemies...

  • Lewisville Flats

    A $3,000 SADDLE Boyd Little used to be a happy man. He was young and healthy and had $3,000 in gold coins he was going to use to buy horses for his uncle's ranch. But that was before he met Liam O'Day. Boyd came upon O'Day a few miles outside of L...

  • Siege

    To Fight and Die in the West Hanson traded a northern war camp for life as a paroled Rebel in the Union cavalry. On a routine patrol, Hanson's unit is surrounded and besieged by Indians. The outnumbered troopers don't have near enough ammunition--an...

  • Judgment Day

    Cowpuncher Johnny Ackerman is just ready to propose to his girl when he gets some competition from the East in the form of Edwin Foster, the new schoolmaster, whose bearing and manners have attracted the attention of every unwed lady in town, especia...

  • The Wrangler

    Taking a job on widow Catherine Wolborough's ranch, down-on-his-luck Confederate veteran John Candler finds himself willing to fight for this family when a greedy cowboy sets his sights on Catherine and vows to take control of her lands by any force ...



  • Bad Boys

    Way back when, Danny Southern, Henry Read, and Red Clybourne were ten-year-olds together in Kansas, peeping on naked girls and stealing whiskey. As they started growing whiskers, they moved on to mugging passed-out drunks and robbing payrolls. But no...

  • Harlan

    Harlan Breen may be a robber, but he'd never kill anyone. Harlan Jarrett, on the other hand, has no problem with murder, but no one knows about that yet. So when a dying woman lives just long enough to identify her killer as "Harlan," well, it's only...

  • Paroled

    Lyle Wilson went into prison yelling loudly that he'd been framed. Now he's out on parole and all he wants is to be left alone to rebuild his small ranch and his life. He doesn't want trouble. He doesn't even want revenge on the man who set him up. T...

  • Ransom

    John Taylor works a lot as a day laborer or cowboy, taking pretty much any job he can get. Actually, he spends most of his time resenting Richard Hahn, the man who’s living with the woman John loves—John’s wife, Jessie. She took the...

  • Rafe... A Tale of Redemption

    Rafe Allard is a bank robber. A very good bank robber. It is a career choice that greatly pleases him and his every intention is to keep it up for as long as he can run to a horse and spur it away. That is until a late afternoon in Tumer, Kansas, whe...

  • Bowen & Baile

    Bowen & Baile - 1

    ~ Award winning Western author Frank Roderus debuts his new "Bowen & Baile" series in this exciting novella ~ The end of life for a member of his family means a return to a former way of life for Howard Bowen. He gave up hunting men years ago, but th...

  • Before I Die

    Bowen & Baile - 2

    The first official job for the Bowen & Baile Detective Agency seemed straightforward â€" find a missing wife and bring her home before her husband succumbs to cancer. But nothing is ever as easy as it sounds. Cole Bowen and Edward Baile's search for ...

  • The Video Vandal

    Carl Heller

    IT WAS ONLY A GAME BUT HELLER'S STAKES WERE DISASTER AND DEATH.Beeps, blips, zonks, Heller was just a big boy from the high country and he was having a rough time understanding all the fuss over protecting the secret development of a hot new video ga...

  • Felicity

    Jonathon Two Hawk has disappeared and his wife â€" or widow â€" wants Cole Bowen and Edward Baile to investigate. What she really wants, and says so, is for Bowen and Baile to kill the man she believes has murdered her husband and stolen more than se...

  • Morning Shadow

    Two short, but very powerful, stories by two-time Spur Award winner Frank Roderus. In “Morning Shadow,” a French trapper is enchanted by a captive Indian child, and must make a fateful decision. In “Four Gold Coins,” a man awakens from a drin...



  • Trapped!

    An old friend from Cole’s past approaches the Bowen & Baile Detective Agency for help on an odd quest- to give back a stolen fortune. The only problem is, the man’s partners don’t want it to be given back…...

  • Texas Double-Cross

    J. Aubrey Whitford is a natural-born con man, so when he finds himself stranded in the wilds of Texas his first instinct is to figure out a way to fleece the citizens of that rugged frontier. He doesn't know that his efforts will soon land him in a d...

  • Easy Money

    • / Historical
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  • Ginger: Orphan Filly

    • / General Fiction
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    A filly has lost its mother and will be killed if Leonard and his sister, Lynn, don’t step in and save her. But talking their parents into letting them raise an orphan filly isn’t easy! They know nothing about horses, but they want to save Ginger...

  • Hell Creek Cabin

    • / Historical
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  • The Keystone Kid

    • / Historical
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    The Keystone Kid had come all the way from Pennsylvania to be a cowboy, and stepped off the train dressed to the teeth in an atrocious freshly bought Western outfit. It was no surprise to anyone when he almost instantly became the butt of some unplea...

  • The Rawhide War

    • / Historical
    • Buy Buy

Award-Winning Books by Frank Roderus

Leaving Kansas
1983 SPUR Award -- Western Novel
Potter's Fields
1996 SPUR Award -- Paperback Original


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Frank Roderus has published 56 books.

Frank Roderus does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Texas Double-Cross, was published in February 2014.

The first book by Frank Roderus, The 33 Brand, was published in March 1979.

Yes. Frank Roderus has 2 series.
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