Matthew P. Mayo

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  • Bibliography:
    34 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    December 2007
  • Latest Book:
    April 2024
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Full Series List in Order

Roamer

1 - Wrong Town (Mar-2012)

Multi-Author Series List

A Ralph Compton Novel

Dead Man's Ranch (Mar-2012)
Tucker's Reckoning (Nov-2012)
The Hunted (Aug-2013)
Double-Cross Ranch (May-2014)
Shotgun Charlie (Jun-2015)
The Too-Late Trail (May-2021)
Guns of the Greenhorn (Jul-2021)

Book List in Order: 34 titles

  • Where Legends Ride

    Saddle up and enjoy these 14 new tales of hot lead, cold hearts, and more leather-slapping action, adventure, and edge-of-the-seat danger than you could ever hope to find on either side of the Mississippi. The writers within these pages range from s...

  • Winters' War

    For eight years the Winters family has worked hard to live down the nightmare of a bloody range war. Theirs is now a promising ranch on hard-won land in Wyoming's rugged Rockies. But on the eve of the season's first snowstorm a stranger slips in, dev...

  • Hot Lead, Cold Heart

    His Honor Newland Pontiff III, late of Exeter Territorial Prison, now presides over a vast tract of land with Cayuse Falls at its centre - a town he's confident he can transform into the 'Washington of the West'. But a demon from his past haunts the ...

  • Dead Man's Ranch

    A Ralph Compton Novel

    Brian Middleton left his father's ranch long ago to make his own way. But now, he's returned to claim the land his late father left him -- and learns the hard way that if you want to keep something in the wild West, you have to fight for it. With loc...

  • Wrong Town

    Roamer - 1

    WRONG TOWN (Roamer Book 1)
    One man’s quest to lose himself in the West

    First in the gritty, all-action Western series by Spur Award-nominated author Matthew P. Mayo, featuring Roamer, loner with a face everyone fears.

    Roam...

  • Haunted Old West: Phantom Cowboys, Spirit-Filled Saloons, Mystical Mine Camps, and Spectral Indians

    Howling hauntings from the raw mountain passes and wind-stripped plains of the Old WestThe Old West is filled with enough phenomenal happenings, curious mysteries, and ghastly ghosts to send chills up and down any spine. Haunted Old ...

  • Tucker's Reckoning

    A Ralph Compton Novel

    WITNESS TO AN EXECUTION Ever since he lost his wife and daughter, Samuel Tucker has wandered, drunk and bereft of a reason to go on. Now, far from his native Texas in Oregon’s Rogue River region, Tucker secretly watches as two men gun down a third...

  • Two for the Trail

    Two for the Trail: A Pair of Gritty Western Short Stories by Matthew P. Mayo. This smokin' collection includes the two short stories, "Half a Pig" (2010 Spur Award Finalist, Best Western Short Fiction Story, Western Writers of Amer...

  • The Hunted

    A Ralph Compton Novel

    DEAD MAN WALKING Big Charlie Chilton knows better than to lose his temper, but when a loudmouth threatens to expose his long-buried secrets, he can't help but teach the man a lesson about being quiet. Unfortunately, it turns out the man was abou...



  • Double-Cross Ranch

    A Ralph Compton Novel

    LET THE DEAD BURY THE DEAD. Rancher Ty Farraday's hunt for stray cattle takes a turn for the worse when he discovers a shallow grave and the body of wealthy Alton Winstead, the owner of the Double-Cross Ranch. Ty's first frantic thoughts are of W...

  • Been a Long Time

    BEEN A LONG TIME: Bad vacations never end, they just get worse….A Gritty Press Short Story of Neverending Torment by award-winning author Matthew P. MayoReady for the vacation of a lifetime? What if it lasted forever … and ever … and ever?He wa...

  • OUT OF THE FOG

    OUT OF THE FOGA Barbaric Tale of Flench and the FreebooterA Gritty Press Short Story of Barbarous Proportions! By award-winning author Matthew P. MayoIn the tradition of Robert E. Howard … it’s Flench and the Freebooter’s first outing.A strange...

  • The Witch Hole

    THE WITCH HOLE: A Gritty Press Short Story of Ancient Terror by award-winning author Matthew P. MayoWho Dares Enter the Lair of No Return?He is warned -- never enter the cave, for it is said that evil dwells there. But he is young ...

  • FUR, FANG & SHADOW

    FUR, FANG & SHADOWA Gritty Press Triple-Shot of Freakish Beasts and the Havoc They Wreak! By award-winning author Matthew P. MayoThis Trio of Creepy Creature Short Stories includes: KINA viperous attack leads to a death-race like ...

  • TERRIBLE TESS

    TERRIBLE TESSA Gritty Press Short Story of Piracy, Deceit & Madness by award-winning author Matthew P. Mayo.Pirates aren’t the only thing to seize control of the ill-fated vessel….Yo-ho-ho, buccaneers! It’s a Gritty Press Short Story of Piratic...

  • Blood Trail to Tall Pine

    A Spur Award-winning Author Roamer is having a bad day - he''s been robbed, savaged by a grizzly, and attacked by wolves. By the time he makes it to Tall Pine, he just wants a hot meal and a soft bed. Instead, the sheriff jails him for murder. Layer...

  • High Rocks Revenge

    A Spur Award-winning AuthorFor eight years the Winters family worked hard to live down the nightmare of a bloody range war. Theirs is now a promising ranch on hard-won land in Wyoming''s rugged Rockies. But on the eve of the season''s first snowstorm...

  • Mason the Mankiller

    "A Spur Award-winning AuthorHis Honor Newland Pontiff III, late of Exeter Territorial Prison, now presides over a vast tract of land with the ambitious town of Cayuse Falls at its center, a town he intends to transform into the ""Washington of the We...

  • GET TEAGUE!

    White-trash dimwits Judd and Kurl set out on a drug-fueled mission to track down the man they blame for their addictions -- they aim to GET TEAGUE! And they aren't about to let anyone stop them, until they cross paths with a crusty old mechanic and h...



  • Shotgun Charlie

    A Ralph Compton Novel

    ODD MAN OUT Big for his age, young and impressionable drifter Charlie Chilton is taken in by the gruff leader of a gang of small-time crooks. While Grady Haskell sees something of himself in kindly, wayward Charlie, the ruffian pushes all feeling...

  • Sherlock Holmes and The Folly of Flight

    It’s an aeronautical adventure of high-flying proportions teaming master detective Sherlock Holmes and his stalwart sidekick, John H. Watson, M.D., with wily French dandy, master thief Arsene Lupin. Are they too late to foil the formidable Lord Rud...

  • To Hell and Back

    Rafe Barr, master tracker, spy, and war hero, is locked away in Yuma Territorial Prison for life, wrongly convicted of the murder of his wife and son. But five years into his sentence, Warden Talbot Timmons, who has made Barr’s time at Yuma a livin...

  • North of Forsaken

    A Spur Award-winning AuthorA Roamer WesternOn the way to visit mountain man Maple Jack, Roamer makes a supply stop in Forsaken, Wyoming, and is recognized by a young man, a specter from his past. The greenhorn has valuable deed - the kind people kill...

  • Stranded

    PERFECT FOR FANS OF GARY PAULSEN'S SURVIVAL STORIES AND READERS WHO ENJOYED THE REVENANT BY MICHAEL PUNKEIn autumn, 1849, 14-year-old Janette Riker travels westward to Oregon Territory with her father and two brothers. Before crossing the Rockies, th...

  • The Outfit Blood and Ash

    Life at the Barr-McGee ranch has settled into a pleasant lull of work and rest for members of The Outfit. Life should be good . . . but big Rafe Barr stews about his wife and son's murderer, and leaves to search for resolution, revenge, reckoni...

  • The Outfit Blood and Ashes

  • Timberline

    A high-country train trek turns into a blizzard-bound trainwreck-from-hell for Roamer as a gang of gunmen run roughshod on the rails. They blow the safe, abscond with a mysterious young woman, and torch the train, leaving passengers to burn in the...

  • The Outfit: Outlawed!

    Wrangler Award Winning Author

    Spur Award Winning Author

    Willa Award Winning Author

    Peacemaker Award Winning Author

    Cookie McGee finds his trail pard, Rafe Barr, head of THE OUTFIT, near death from a vicious knife attack in ...

  • Dilly

    "DILLY is the coming-of-age story of an abused orphan boy, Orville Dillard Jr., aka Dilly, who travels west from Ohio to Wyoming and ends up at the Hatterson Cattle Ranch. He also finds himself smack in the middle of the infamous and all-too-real She...



  • The Too-Late Trail

    A Ralph Compton Novel

    Western Writers of America 2022 Spur Award FinalistA rancher discovers just how many times a man's luck can hold out in this thrilling novel in the bestselling Trail Drive Series After struggling for years to work a raw-patch ranch in the arid flatla...

  • Guns of the Greenhorn

    A Ralph Compton Novel

    Highly educated -- and totally clueless -- young Fletcher Ralston inherits a brothel and his thieving father's deadly enemy in this suspenseful new novel in Ralph Compton's Gunfighter series. Young dandy Fletcher Ralston's privileged life of educatio...

  • Winter Wolves

    “One man's quest to lose himself in the West.” Roamer's long-planned winter snowshoe trek to the high, lonesome peaks of the Bitterroots takes a hard turn when the big loner of a woodsman finds his mentor, cantankerous mountain man Maple ...

  • Half a Pig and Other Stories of the West

  • Half a Pig and Other Frontier Stories

    Gathered for the first time, this robust collection of eighteen frontier tales, Half a Pig (and Other Stories of the West), from Spur and Wrangler Award-winning author Matthew P. Mayo, rides hard with a range of fast-action offerings, including the p...

Award-Winning Books by Matthew P. Mayo

Dilly
2021 Spur Award -- Juvenile Fiction
Stranded
2018 Spur Award -- Juvenile Fiction


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Matthew P. Mayo has published 34 books.

Matthew P. Mayo does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Half a Pig and Other Frontier Stories, was published in April 2024.

The first book by Matthew P. Mayo, Where Legends Ride, was published in December 2007.

Yes. Matthew P. Mayo has 1 series.
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