Kent Conwell

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  • Bibliography:
    55 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    June 1995
  • Latest Book:
    November 2013
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Full Series List in Order

A Tony Boudreaux Mystery

Galveston (Apr-2003)
The Ying on Triad (Dec-2005)
The Swamps of Bayou Teche (Nov-2007)
Death in the French Quarter (Mar-2008)
The Crystal Skull Murders (Jul-2008)
The Puzzle of Piri Reis (Jul-2009)
An Unmarked Grave (Sep-2009)
Murder Among Friends (Feb-2011)

Book List in Order: 55 titles

  • Jim Wells

  • Bumpo, Bill, and the Girls

  • Valley Of Gold

  • Painted Comanche Tree

  • The Ghost of Blue Bone Mesa

    The Ghost of Blue Bone Mesa is Conwell's eleventh book for Avalon, a list that includes the recently published titles Valley of Gold; Bumpo, Bill, and the Girls; Laughing Girl Creek; Jim Wells; and Painted Comanche Tree....

  • Texas Orphan Train - An Avalon Western

    Texas Orphan Train is Kent's twelfth book for AVALON, which include the recently published titles The Ghost of Blue Bone Mesa, Painted Comanche Tree, Valley of Gold, Bumpo, Bill, and the Girls, and Jim Wells....

  • Glitter of Gold

  • Blood Brothers - An Avalon Western

    Blood Brothers is Kent Conwell's fourteenth book for Avalon, which include the recently published titles, Glitter of Gold, Texas Orphan Train, Painted Comanche Tree, Valley of Gold, and The Ghost of Blue Bone Mesa....

  • The Gold of Black Mountain

    The Gold of Black Mountain is Kent's fifteenth book for AVALON. Other recently published titles include Blood Brothers, Glitter of Gold, Texas Orphan Train, Painted Comanche Tree, Valley of Gold, and The Ghost of Blue Bone Mesa....



  • The Alamo Trail

    Acting as a decoy for a man carrying a message to Sam Houston, Bob Walker finds himself smack in the middle of the marauding Mexican army. On the trail, Walker meets Kate Rush, a free black man called Uncle Ned, and four little girls who are stranded...

  • Sidetrip To Sand Springs

    When Charley Bookbinder rode into Sand Springs, all he wanted was a thick steak, cold beer and a hot poker game. As the time, that didn't sound like much.

    What he got was a crooked poker game with five of the town's leading citizens; a twelve-foo...

  • Friday's Station

    Gabe Harrison wanted no part of the Civil War. He took the stationmaster's job for the Pony Express at Friday's Station on the south shore of Lake Tahoe for the winter, planning on using his pay as down payment on a ranch in Wyoming.

    Then he was ...

  • A Wagon Train for Brides

    Mesquite-post tough Howie Forrest just thought he'd seen the elephant when he reached Independence, Missouri with two thousand head of ornery Mexican steers despite tornadoes, hail storms, cattle rustlers, and Jayhawkers.

    If he'd been holding a s...

  • Red River Crossing

    Martin Wallace had bucked the tiger, seen the elephant, fought with Nathan Forrest Bedford, battled Quanah Parker and his Comanches, skinned three thousand buffalo, and slipped unseen through Indian Territory, all with no more than a scratch or bad c...

  • The Gambling Man

    "You got a choice. Hang as a horse thief or teach our schoolkids."

    That was the decision facing Mage Casebolt, a decision that made him wish he had never disembarked the riverboat at New Orleans.

    Bound for San Francisco to join his brothers i...

  • Galveston

    A Tony Boudreaux Mystery
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    DETOUR TO MURDER Trouble is no stranger to any private investigator, but Austin P.I. Tony Boudreaux isn't expecting any when he stops in Galveston to visit a friend. Before the night is over, a shootout puts his detective buddy Ben Howard in a com...

  • A Hanging in Hidetown

    When Jace Quinlan rode into Hidetown, he was looking for work. Instead, he wound up in jail with a knot on his head, leg chains around his ankle and an invitation to a hemp party for murder and rustling.

    After he escaped, he learned the sheriff a...

  • Skeletons of the Atchafalaya

    Tony Boudreaux's family had a saying that "good things happen in threes."

    However, instead of three days of rich Cajun food, dancing, and laughing over old times at his family reunion at Whiskey Bend in the middle of the Atchafalaya Swamp, Tony B...

  • An Eye for an Eye

    For twelve years, four months, and six days, Jed Walker doggedly clung to one goal: kill the five owlhoots who had shot him and murdered his brother.

    Only after he was nursed back to health after a second ambush did he begin to realize that his h...



  • The Riddle of Mystery Inn

    B.J. Galloway, a part time P.I., wanted to take his girlfriend, Teri Owens, away for a fun weekend. He chose the Mystery Inn on the Sabine River, never expecting that a real murder would take place during a theatre performance. Now, he has been hired...

  • Gunfight at Frio Canyon

    When Lew Hobbs rode out of Camp Verde on a hot day in July, his biggest mistake was not continuing on down to Bandera. If he had, he never would have been accused of killing an old rancher down on the Frio and stealing his savings.

    As if that was...

  • Death In The Dilstillery

    Tony Boudreaux needed a rest. So when his lady friend, Janice, insists he escort her to the annual reception at the Chalk Hills Distillery, he immediately refuses. Her aunt, Beatrice Morrison, is the CEO of Chalk Hills and is anxious to host a lavish...

  • Angelina Showdown

    When Clay Morgan and his sidekick Twitch Mabry rode out of Texas for Kansas City to pick up Clay's orphaned nephew and niece, they planned to make the return trip in the debatable comfort of a stagecoach.

    They had no idea their return journey wou...

  • Bowie's Silver

    Luck had never been much inclined to perch on Judd Cameron's shoulder, so he wasn't surprised when his life took on all the ups and downs of hanging tight in the saddle on the back of a bucking bronc.

    All of a sudden he finds himself smack-dab in...

  • Vicksburg

    When Private Investigator Tony Boudreaux agreed to drive an injured Jack Edney five hundred miles to Vicksburg, Mississippi for his father's funeral, Tony had no way of knowing that he would go through the nine lives of a cat before his visit to the ...

  • Chimney of Gold

    Jake Slade will never forget that face--the face of the Comanchero who murdered his mother, kidnapped his sister, and left him for dead with a slug in his chest fourteen long years ago. Nursed back to health by the Apaches, Slade lived with them unti...

  • Palo Duro Shootout

    Despite the war around him, Josh Miles refuses to take sides. Neither he, nor any of his acquaintances own slaves, so as far as he is concerned, the War of Succession is a fight between fools and thieves.

    Fate steps in when his childhood chum, Ze...

  • The Ying on Triad

    A Tony Boudreaux Mystery

    Tony Boudreaux has only seven days to solve a ten-year-old murder and keep Bobby Packard from the needle. What he quickly discovers is that ominous forces exist that don't want Packard saved--forces that will go to any lengths to make sure Tony fails...

  • Promise to a Dead Man

    Davy Nelson rode into Crockett, Texas, exhausted but pleased. He figured he had just about completed the promise he had made to his dying partner on the battlefield near Seven Pines, Virginia, two years earlier.

    But, when he climbed down off his ...



  • Extracurricular Murder

    In order to secure an eight million dollar insurance claim for Frances Holderman, all Tony Boudreaux had to do was prove to Universal Life Insurance Company that his client was not responsible for the death of her husband, a local school district sup...

  • Junction Flats Drifter

    Had Josh Barkley known the trouble he would soon face, he and his sidekick, Mike Gray-Eyes, would have never tied up in front of the sheriff's office in Junction Flats. But they did, and faster than a deacon takes up a collection, Josh finds himself ...

  • The Last Way Station

    As soon as Jack Slade and his partner, Three Fingers Bent, arrive in the small Texas town of New Gideon, they know no one wants them there. There's been some rustling in the area, and folks aren't taking too kindly to strangers. But things don't get ...

  • Atascocita Gold

    After Sheriff Dan Ellis keeps Josh Carson and Tiny Hamilton out of the tar and feathering pot, he gives the two drifters a choice of thirty days in jail or bull-whacking for Frenchy Buckalew and her freight line. After only a few days on the line, t...

  • The Swamps of Bayou Teche

    A Tony Boudreaux Mystery

    Even as a child listening to the hushed, fearful stories told around dying fires of the loup garous that prowled the Louisiana prairies and ghosted through dark swamps, Tony Boudreaux always viewed them with the skepticism of an enlightened individua...

  • Death in the French Quarter

    A Tony Boudreaux Mystery

    A Melungeon beauty, the sister of an old boyhood chum, comes to private eye Tony Boudreaux, hoping he can help clear her brother's name. Tony takes the case out of a sense of loyalty but has no idea that the trail will lead to the underbelly of smugg...

  • The Bloody Texans

    Trapper and scout Nathan Cooper returned home to his cabin in East Texas, only to find a sight he would never forget--his wife, his young niece and his niece's intended, all slaughtered. With his heart broken and blood in his eyes, Nathan buried his ...

  • The Crystal Skull Murders

    A Tony Boudreaux Mystery

    After a few harrowing months of stumbling through catacombs beneath a New Orleans cemetery, evading alligators at Bayou Teche, and dodging a band of fanatics searching for a crystal skull and torching rap clubs, Tony Boudreaux figures he deserves a r...

  • Grave for a Dead Gunfighter

    Having created a new life for himself after causing the death of his adopted father, Clint Bowles, one of the deadliest gunfighters in the west, is stunned to learn ten years later that his father might still be alive. To find the truth despite the c...

  • Llano River Valley

    Wrongly kicked out of the Confederate Army for dereliction of duty, JD Thornton sets out to run down Hugh Garrett, the corporal who accused him. In the middle of his search, he encounters Lucy and Floyd Coulter, who are headed for the Llano River Val...



  • The Puzzle of Piri Reis

    A Tony Boudreaux Mystery

    After months of stumbling through catacombs beneath a New Orleans cemetery, evading alligators at Bayou Teche, dodging a band of fanatics searching for an ancient crystal skull, and tracking down the torch man of two clubs on Austin's Sixth Street, T...

  • Days of Vengeance

    As the moon rises, the night riders come out, sweeping over ranches in the valley, bringing fear and intimidation. Someone wants the owners to sell--badly--but like a few other holdouts, Ben Elliott has sworn not to give up his land for any price. So...

  • An Unmarked Grave

    A Tony Boudreaux Mystery

    Exhausted after weeks of struggling to break the enigmatic code leading to the discovery of the Piri Reis map, Tony Boudreaux was looking forward to the simple assignment of running down a missing man. A few days after locating Justin Chester and esc...

  • Shootout on the Sabine

    Left for dead when the wagon master and his band of owlhoots massacre a wagon train, Matt Fields awakens to find his partner, Cotton Wills, murdered. He discovers a young woman and two boys who also survived. They take refuge in the woods as a snowst...

  • Showdown at Juniper Pass

    To give his Apache brother Nana a traditional burial, Jake Slade and his other brother Paleto will have to risk the dangerous Sangre De Cristo Mountains in the dead of winter -- a risk they're willing to take. But the elements aren't the only thing ...

  • Murder Among Friends

    A Tony Boudreaux Mystery

    When Tony Boudreaux agrees to help his ex-girlfriend Debbie Edwards Reeves find her father, he gets more than he bargained for. Reeves has vanished after being accused of masterminding a half-million dollar armored car heist, and Boudreaux's search l...

  • Reckoning at Dead Apache Springs

    Joe Phoebe and his partner, Ira Croton, ride boldly into the forbidding hill country of central Texas for two reasons: first, to take a job bullwhacking for Mills' Freight and Livery in Dead Apache Springs; and second, on the outside chance that some...

  • Mystery of Ten 'Gator Bayou

    Puzzled by the disappearance of the game warden and strange deaths of two alligators, teenage chums, Gary and Max, go about their summer job harvesting minnows and frog legs for the locals until one night back in a dark slough, they stumble right int...

  • The Diamonds of Ghost Bayou

    When Jack Edney is assaulted and hospitalized in Priouxville on the banks of Ghost Bayou near Bayou Teche in Louisiana, Tony Boudreaux forgoes his long anticipated vacation to aid his best friend. He is surprised to learn that Jack's assailants were ...

  • Retribution at Wind River

    When Sheriff Burl McCombs swore to kill Zeb Hawkins's kid brother, Zeb figured the time had come for the two of them to leave Texas and head to Oregon. He thought bushwhackers, renegades, brutal weather and wild grizzlies had to be less dangerous tha...



  • Murder in a Casbah of Cats

    It should’ve been an easy job for a private investigator -- housesit some cats for a couple weeks and rake in a few thousand bucks thanks to their eccentric owner’s bottomless bank account. Practically a vacation. At least, that’s what Tony Bou...

  • The Puzzle of Peri Reis

    After months of stumbling through catacombs beneath a New Orleans cemetery, evading alligators at Bayou Teche, dodging a band of fanatics searching for an ancient crystal skull, and tracking down the torch man of two clubs on Austin's Sixth Street, T...

  • Medicine of Pawnee Rock

    The brainchild of Amazon Kindle Number One bestselling western writers Mike Stotter and Ben Bridges, PICCADILLY PUBLISHING is dedicated to reissuing new and classic fiction from Yesterday and Today!THE MEDICINE OF PAWNEE ROCKWhen Jake Cutter sets out...

  • The Pursuers

    The brainchild of Amazon Kindle Number One bestselling western writers Mike Stotter and Ben Bridges, PICCADILLY PUBLISHING is dedicated to reissuing new and classic fiction from Yesterday and Today!THE PURSUERSEnraged by the savage butchery and crema...

  • The Mona Lisa Murders

    The brainchild of Amazon Kindle bestselling western writers Mike Stotter and Ben Bridges, PICCADILLY PUBLISHING is dedicated to issuing classic fiction from Yesterday and Today!THE MONA LISA MURDERSTaking a well deserved fishing vacation after a fran...

  • Laughing Girl Creek

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Kent Conwell has published 55 books.

Kent Conwell does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Mona Lisa Murders, was published in November 2013.

The first book by Kent Conwell, Jim Wells, was published in June 1995.

Yes. Kent Conwell has 1 series.
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