James Reasoner

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  • Bibliography:
    86 Books (6 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1994
  • Latest Book:
    March 2024
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Full Series List in Order

Civil War Battle

1 - Manassas (May-1999)
2 - Shiloh (Nov-1999)
3 - Antietam (May-2000)
4 - Chancellorsville (Oct-2000)
5 - Vicksburg (May-2001)
6 - Gettysburg (Oct-2001)
7 - Chickamauga (Mar-2005)
8 - Shenandoah (Oct-2002)
9 - Savannah (May-2003)
10 - Appomattox (Oct-2003)

Judge Earl Stark

1 - Stark's Justice (Jan-1994)
2 - The Hawthorne Legacy (Jun-1994)

The Last Good War

1 - Battle Lines (Jun-2001)
2 - Trial By Fire (Mar-2002)
3 - Zero Hour (Apr-2003)

Redemption

1 - Redemption, Kansas (Mar-2011)
2 - Hunters (Feb-2012)
3 - Trackdown (Mar-2013)

Walker, Texas Ranger

1 - Walker, Texas Ranger (Apr-1999)
2 - Hell's Half Acre (Jul-1999)
3 - Siege on the Belle (Oct-1999)

Wind River

1 - Wind River (Jun-1994)
2 - Thunder Wagon (Aug-1994)
3 - Wolf Shadow (Dec-1994)
4 - Medicine Creek (Apr-1995)
5 - Dark Trail (Aug-1995)
6 - Judgment Day (Nov-1995)

Book List in Order: 86 titles

  • Stark's Justice

    Judge Earl Stark - 1

  • The Hawthorne Legacy

    Judge Earl Stark - 2

    Federal circuit judge Earl Stark must use law books, gavels, and more to find the truth behind the murder of rancher Emmitt Hawthorne and the rival claims of Hawthorne's sons and their gunmen. Original....

  • Wind River

    Wind River - 1

    After buffalo hunter and former army scout Cole Tyler arrives in Wind River, a primitive outpost in the wild Wyoming Territory, he is unwittingly drawn into taking the unwelcome and dangerous job of town marshal. Original....

  • Thunder Wagon

    Wind River - 2

    Marshal Cole Tyler and his deputy, Billy Casebolt, must track down some cattle rustlers to keep peace in Wind River, Wyoming Territory, before the culprits can light the fuse that will set off a bloody massacre...

  • Wolf Shadow

    Wind River - 3

    WIND RIVER As the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific built the rails that would meet to unite a vast nation, Wind River became the newest railhead in wild Wyoming Territory -- a town ripe for trouble and a special brand of justice. The big man...

  • The Diablo Grant

    THE DEVIL'S BUSINESS

    When a crumbling piece of paper slides from the Bible of Juan Espina, the town drunk, the New Mexico territory settlement of Garrison is royally surprised. It appears to be a centuries-old land grant -- issued by the K...

  • Lyron's Lament

  • Medicine Creek

    Wind River - 4

    A bitter rivalry between two ranchers spins out of control when Deputy Billy Casebolt falls ill to a mysterious fever that the local Indians say can only be cured by a mystical stream known as Medicine Creek. Original....

  • Dark Trail

    Wind River - 5

    Struggling to maintain order in the face of the transcontinental railroad, rivaling miners, and a justice-seeking marshal, Cole Tyler and Billy Casebolt encounter more trouble in a vengeful stranger from New Orleans. Original....



  • Judgment Day

    Wind River - 6

  • The Wilderness Road

    Accused of killing his wife in 1790, farmer Davis Hallam becomes a fugitive and joins a labor crew that takes him from southwestern Virginia to Kentucky, where he finds adventure and love before he is forced to confront the past. ...

  • The Hunted

    At the end of the brutal Civil War, be came home to find his life shattered-and his children missing.

    Ater two grueling years in a Yankee prison camp, Evan Littleton makes his way home to Texas only to find his loving wife dead, his farm taken over...

  • Under Outlaw Flags

    The law finally puts an end to the Tacker Gang's pursuit of a dishonest living in the Wild West in 1917, offering them jail or a trip to the European front, a place even wilder than the dusty frontier...

  • Legend

    in Legend

    Seven winners of the Spur Award--including Elmer Kelton and Loren D. Estleman--come together to document the life of the legendary Lyle Speaks, from his tormented childhood to his years as a cattle rancher and his regrettable exploits in between. Ori...

  • Walker, Texas Ranger

    Walker, Texas Ranger - 1

    Texas Ranger Walker matches wits with old enemies Carlos and Ramon Vega Garcia when a brutal drug-smuggling cartel decides to bring heroin into Dallas by disguising it in packages of legitimate medicine...

  • Manassas

    Civil War Battle - 1

    Manassas"", by James Reasoner, is the first novel in The Civil War Battles series based on the Brannon family of Culpeper County, Virginia. This initial volume describes the mood in the South prior to the outbreak of hostilities and follows one of th...

  • Hell's Half Acre

    Walker, Texas Ranger - 2

    When a deadly gang of bank robbers kidnaps the family of a wealthy, powerful banker, Walker and Trivette must search the streets of Dallas to find the hostages before it is too late. Original. TV tie-in....

  • Siege on the Belle

    Walker, Texas Ranger - 3

  • Shiloh

    Civil War Battle - 2

    Here the series focuses on the Mississippi River. Prior to the war, Cory Brannon had gone west to seek his fortune and joins the crew of a steamboat whose captain has definite loyalties. Brannon soon finds himself at the battles of Forts Henry and Do...



  • Tie a Black Ribbon

  • Antietam

    Civil War Battle - 3

    The third volume in the Civil War Battle Series of novels spanning the war, Antietam brings the war to within view of the Brannon family farm in Culpeper County, Virginia. When the Federals intercept the Rebels near Antietam Creek, two of the Brannon...

  • Chancellorsville

    Civil War Battle - 4

    In the fourth book of this ten-volume series, the action is divided between northern Virginia and the western front. In Vickburg, Cory Brannon finds Lucille Farrell, his sweetheart, and also helps to establish a supply line from Texas, bringing food,...

  • Vicksburg

    Civil War Battle - 5

    Vicksburg is the fifth volume in a series of historical novels spanning the Civil War featuring the Brannon family of Culpeper County, Virginia. The focus turns to the west and the Southern stronghold of Vicksburg, Mississippi, where Cory Brannon is ...

  • Battle Lines

    The Last Good War - 1

    It is 1941, and friends Adam, Joe, Dale, and Catherine are similar to most young adults. College, dating, and fast cars are what they know and live for. And in Chicago, Illinois, the near center of America, world conflict seems merely a distant rumor...

  • Gettysburg

    Civil War Battle - 6

    Although Stonewall Jackson was dead, Confederate morale was never higher. The victory at Chancellorsville had come against overwhelming odds, and the Southerners savored the sight of the Union army in retreat. In less than a year's time, the Federals...

  • Trial By Fire

    The Last Good War - 2

    December 7, 1941"A day that will live in infamy," is how President Franklin Delano Roosevelt described the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. With a devastating stroke, World War II was no longer a strictly European war; it was now our war, too. In thi...

  • Shenandoah

    Civil War Battle - 8

    In this eighth volume of the ten-volume Civil War Battle Series, the action returns to northern Virginia and Culpeper County. The long absent Titus Brannon returns home on Christmas Day, 1863, just over a year since his disappearance during the battl...

  • Zero Hour

    The Last Good War - 3

    November, 1942. In the Pacific with the U.S. Marines on Guadalcanal, and in North Africa with the British Armored Tank Command, James Reasoner puts readers into the thick of the most deadly action of World War II. The British Tank Command has been fi...

  • Savannah

    Civil War Battle - 9

    More than 100,000 Copies Sold in the Civil War Battle Series Following the defeat of Confederate forces at Chattanooga in November 1863, the battered Rebel army retreats to winter quarters at Dalton, Georgia. The following May, a large Union army led...



  • Appomattox

    Civil War Battle - 10

    As the ten-volume saga concludes, the multiple strands of the story are woven toward their resolution. As the war careens toward its inevitable end, members of the Brannon family are involved in every theater of the,at and spread across the South. Fo...

  • Texas Wind

    When Cody, a Texas private investigator, is hired to look into what should be a straightforward missing person case, he soon realizes that he's taken on more than he bargained for. The facts surrounding the disappearance of Fort Worth businessman's d...

  • Chickamauga

    Civil War Battle - 7

    In this seventh volume of the ten-volume Civil War Battle Series, the action spans the area from Pennsylvania and Virginia to Georgia, Mississippi, and Illinois. The seven members of the Brannon clan of Culpeper County, Virginia, experience a wide ra...

  • Dust Devils

    An isolated farm... a lonely older woman and a young man who may not be what he seems... but when the wind blows and whips up dust devils on the Texas plains, nothing is what it seems. Searching for answers, Toby McCoy finds only more questions when ...

  • Death Head Crossing

    The Texas Two Step... Death-Head Crossing is just the name of a little town in Texas--until the population starts shrinking one body at a time. But the deaths are as mysterious as the face of the murderer, and only gunslinger Hell Jackson has what i...

  • Diamondback

    A disgraced cop who's quick to kill. A truckload of dead bodies (literally). An army of violent radicals. A beautiful woman who can't be trusted. And oh, yeah . . . snakes.Written in the 1980s for a line of men's adventure novels that was cancell...

  • Redemption, Kansas

    Redemption - 1

    Injured in a cattle stampede on a drive through Kansas, Bill is healing in Redemption. Tended to by a shopkeeper's lovely daughter, Eden Monroe, there are worse places he could be. But Bill knows something's wrong. A series of unexplained killings pl...

  • Cossack Three Ponies

    Sent to protect a delegation of Russian aristocrats on a goodwill mission, Viktor was thrilled to journey to the bold, open land of America. But when the arrogant nobles murdered an Indian for sport, Viktor knew that more blood would be shed.Stranded...

  • Old Times' Sake

    James Reasoner, author of more than 200 novels, presents 17 short stories, most of which were published in the MIKE SHAYNE MYSTERY Magazine in the 70s and 80s. Now collected for the first time, they show you why he's the master story-teller he is. W...

  • Judgement Day

    Wind River #6 JUDGMENT DAY Not everyone is glad to see the railroad coming to Wind River. Caught in the middle of those for and those against, Marshal Cole Tyler must keep the peace even as events force him to choose sides in the battle for the futur...



  • The Paths of Righteousness

    This collection brings together all of legendary author James Reasoner's science fiction stories in one place, including two never before published. Set on Earth, the Moon, and distant planets, these stories range from the retro hardboiled private ey...

  • Tractor Girl

    Small-time crook Nick Paulson was pulled back from the brink of death by a blond goddess on an old red tractor. Wounded in an attempted mob execution, Nick thinks that the Texas farm where he finds himself recuperating from his injuries will be a go...

  • Hunters

    Redemption - 2

    When a group of buffalo hunters gets into a scuffle with a party of Indians, the end results are tragic-leaving all but one of the Indians dead. With the sole survivor on his way to rally the rest of his tribe for vengeance, the buffalo hunters hight...

  • Rocky Mountain Showdown

    Originally published as Powell's Army #5 Rocky Mountain Showdown by Terence Duncan. Does not require reading in order.FEARLESS FIREBRANDS EXPLODING ACROSS AN UNTAMED LAND!A blue-ribbon commission must select the site for a major Army post on the east...

  • Texas Rangers

    Acclaimed New York Times bestselling author James Reasoner returns with this collection of seven stories featuring the West's most famous outlaw hunters in action. The first three stories, "Callie and the Angel", "The Wish Book", and "Hacendado" star...

  • Red River Desperadoes

  • THE MAN FROM NIGHTSHADE VALLEY

    Available for the first time under the authors' real names, THE MAN FROM NIGHTSHADE VALLEY is a classic Western adventure novel from bestselling, award-winning authors Ed Gorman and James Reasoner. Jim McReady is a young Easterner out of place in the...

  • Fort Worth Nights

    FORT WORTH NIGHTS reprints all the short fiction featuring Cody, the private eye protagonist of New York Times best-selling author James Reasoner's first novel, the cult classic TEXAS WIND. Available for the first time in one place are the acclaimed ...

  • Roscoes in the Night

    Along with their fellow Wardens Will, Matt, and Jeremy, twins Mercy and Marguerite are stranded in the 1920s in the Irish speakeasy that will someday become their parents' restaurant. Assuming it lasts that long! But can it survive feuding brothers, ...

  • Savage Blood

    The Civil War took nearly everything from Brodie. A beautiful redhead named Eva took what was left. When she turned to him for help, he had every reason in the world to tell her to go to hell.Instead he strapped on his gun and walked right into a bla...



  • Ransom Valley

    The Wyoming Territory town of Wind River has gotten so peaceful that some people think it's downright civilized. But they don't know that a gang of vicious outlaws is planning a military-style raid on the settlement that will clean out the bank and t...

  • The Silver Alibi

    Big Earl rides again!Earl Stark was once a fast-shooting stagecoach guard in Texas before taking up the study of law, becoming an attorney, and eventually being appointed a federal district court judge. Now he combines a keen legal mind with a fronti...

  • Deadlock

    A man had to have sand in his craw to live out on the frontier, even in a settlement, and Judge Earl Stark proves he has plenty when he walks right into a lynching. Billy Thorp, the son of Jud Thorp, the big he-wolf of the area was arrested for murde...

  • Trackdown

    Redemption - 3

    Marshal Bill Harvey puts his life at risk every day to protect the people of Redemption, Kansas. But there’s only one resident whose well-being comes before all else, and if you touch her, you’re as good as dead in his books... Bill Harvey th...

  • Look You On Beauty And Death

    Heroic fantasy short story.A beautiful woman who wields a blade as deadly as any man! A wizard from a far land whose sorcerous powers spell either doom or paradise, depending on his lecherous whim! The warrior Ralna, personal bodyguard to the Empress...

  • West of the Big River

    William M. "Bill" Tilghman had one of the most illustrious careers of any Old West lawman, serving as sheriff, town marshal, and deputy United States marshal in some of the toughest places west of the Mississippi. But he faced perhaps his greatest an...

  • The Lawman

    William M. "Bill" Tilghman had one of the most illustrious careers of any Old West lawman, serving as sheriff, town marshal, and deputy United States marshal in some of the toughest places west of the Mississippi. But he faced perhaps his greatest an...

  • The Man in the Moon

    Markham is a private detective, but instead of a client he has a personal stake in this case. He's the one who finds the two kids wandering along a desert highway in the middle of the night. Their father is missing, and Markham's efforts to discover ...

  • Red River Ruse

    Lawyer Billy Cambridge, a retired Texas Ranger, and his best friend, vaquero and ranch foreman Nacho Graves, set out by stagecoach from Pecos, Texas, to deliver $20,000 in cash to a client in Fort Smith, Arkansas. When the stagecoach is held up and C...

  • Death and the Dancing Shadows

    Retired cowboy movie star Eliot "Lucky" Tremaine has a problem: he's being blackmailed. Markham seems to be the only one who can help him, but when blackmail explodes into murder, it's Markham's life on the line!"Death and the Dancing Shadows" is ano...

  • War Games

    The owner of Rutledge Military Academy, Colonel Anthony Rutledge (Ret.), hires private eye Markham at his L.A. office and asks him to drive up to the school. Markham wants to know why the head of a military school needs a private detective, and Rutle...

  • Dancing with Dead Men

    Logan Handley was a gun for hire, a man feared far and wide for his speed and deadly accuracy with a Colt. But then a mysterious malady struck him down and left him a mere shell of the man he had been. Running out of time and seeking help from a famo...

  • Redemption Hunters

    When a group of buffalo hunters gets into a scuffle with a party of Indians, the end results are tragic-leaving all but one of the Indians dead. With the sole survivor on his way to rally the rest of his tribe for vengeance, the buffalo hunters hi...

  • The Phantom Ranger and the Skateboard Gang

    Codi Jackson and her father have been forced to move again. Codi’s getting used to being the “new girl” in her fifth grade class -- but that doesn’t mean she has to like it. Can’t life just be normal? With her mother out of the picture and ...

  • Redemption Trackdown

    "Marshal Bill Harvey puts his life at risk every day to protect the people of Redemption, Kansas. But there's only one resident whose well-being comes before all else, and if you touch her, you're as good as dead in his books... " Bill Harvey though...

  • Lone Ranger Chronicles SC New Ptg

  • Hunt at the Well of Eternity

    From the towers of Manhattan to the jungles of South America, from the sands of the Sahara to the frozen crags of Antarctica, one man finds adventure everywhere he goes: GABRIEL HUNT. Backed by the resources of the $100 million Hunt Foundation and ar...

  • Mockingbird And Big Earl

    They were an unlikely team, the big, gruff circuit court judge and the talkative Blackfoot girl. Together they travel across the Old West solving mysteries and bringing justice. Judge Earl Stark comes to El Paso to try the case of a man accused of a ...

  • The Fyredrake's Prey

    Sir Gault the Red was once the fiercest knight in all Malachar, but that was before age and a life of peace reduced him to a shadow of the warrior he once was. Now his epic battles against the fyredrakes, the race of reptilian monsters that terrorize...

  • Hangman's Knot

    Hell came to Santa Angelina on a beautiful morning, as the Texas settlement was practically wiped out by vicious outlaws led by the bloodthirsty lunatic Henry Pollard. Now Pollard is in jail in Alpine, waiting on his trial and an all but certain date...

  • Outlaw Ranger

    G.W. Braddock was raised to be a Texas Ranger and never wanted anything else. But when he's stripped of his badge through no fault of his own and a corrupt system turns the vicious killer Tull Coleman loose on the people of the Lone Star State, Bradd...

  • Blood and Gold

    A savage ambush...twenty men slaughtered in a brutal massacre...a fortune in gold stolen! This was a crime big enough and bold enough to bring the Outlaw Ranger to the wide-open settlement of Cemetery Butte, where a powerful mining tycoon rode roughs...

  • Missing! City Of Gold

    Dennis Fletcher has a problem...or two. He's extra-smart, and even though he's skipped a grade, he's still bigger than a lot of the older kids! Making friends is hard--and something he wants more than anything. When he invites two of his classmates o...

  • Powdersmoke Christmas

    Two wild and woolly Christmas stories by legendary Western author James Reasoner.’Tis The Season For JusticeIt's a life or death Christmas Eve for the man accused of murdering the son of the richest man in the territory. Former shotgun guard Judge ...

  • Tales from the Otherverse

    Other times, other places, other stories than the ones we know...These are the Tales From the Otherverse, where anything is possible and things never work out quite the way you'd expect. Some of today's top talents in popular fiction turn their hands...

  • Gun Devils of the Rio Grande

    A band of killers swoops down on a Mexican village, slaughtering the men and carrying off the women as prisoners. In Texas, a train is held up, American soldiers are murdered, and a valuable shipment of rifles is stolen. G.W. Braddock knows there’s...

  • Rocket's Red Glare

    From distant galaxies to the mean streets of Hollywood . . . from the war-torn skies of France in 1918 to the far side of the moon . . . The stories in Rocket's Red Glare exemplify the adventure, courage, and sense of discovery so vital to the Americ...

  • Six-Gun Law

  • The Iron Horse

    The race is on to span the continent with steel rails-and someone is willing to do anything to stop it, even if it means spilling rivers of innocent blood!Matthew Faraday is president of the Faraday Security Service, a detective agency specializing i...

  • Outlaw Ranger, Volume One

    Best-selling author and legendary storyteller James Reasoner introduces a man haunted by the past and fighting to make a place for himself in the violent world of the Old West. G.W. Braddock was raised to be a Texas Ranger and never wanted anything ...

  • Outlaw Ranger, Volume Two

    New York Times bestselling author James Reasoner returns to the Old West in this gritty, compelling action-packed saga! A savage ambush - twenty men slaughtered in a brutal massacre and a fortune in gold stolen - was a crime big enough and bold enou...

  • Outlaw Ranger, Volume Three

    From best-selling author and legendary storyteller James Reasoner comes another action-packed, fast-paced saga of life in the Old West. A band of killers swoop down on a Mexican village, slaughtering the men and carrying off the women as prisoners. I...

  • Outlaw Ranger, Volume Four

    New York Times bestselling author James Reasoner returns with another gritty, fast-moving tale of the Outlaw Ranger.Lured by the Mexican government's bounty for Native American scalps, a ruthless gang led by serial killer John Grafton roams both side...

  • Ravagers of the Border

    Gritty, compelling, and packed with action, the saga of the Outlaw Ranger rages forward - from bestselling and award-winning author James Reasoner.A mixed-race outlaw gang terrorizes the border territory between Brownsville, Texas, and Matamoros, Tam...

  • Kingfisher P. I.

    Callista Kingfisher is a former mixed martial arts fighter and one of the top stunt performers in Hollywood. But when an accident on a movie set leaves her badly injured, she goes home to Corpus Christi, Texas, to recuperate.Callie’s triplet br...

  • Dark Ride

    Hired to find out who’s been threatening a Texas state senator’s granddaughter, the two triplet sleuths Callista and Joseph Kingfisher find themselves in more trouble than they bargained for as Callie goes undercover at a therapeutic ridi...

  • Tourist Trap

    The search for one of the world’s most wanted fugitives, a swindler who is rumored to have stashed away close to a billion dollars in ill-gotten gains, leads brother and sister private investigators Callista and Joseph Kingfisher to a fabulous,...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

James Reasoner has published 86 books.

James Reasoner does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Tourist Trap, was published in March 2024.

The first book by James Reasoner, Stark's Justice, was published in January 1994.

Yes. James Reasoner has 6 series.
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