Richard Prosch

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  • Bibliography:
    38 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    May 2014
  • Latest Book:
    July 2024
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Full Series List in Order

Jo Harper

1 - Waiting For a Comet (May-2014)
2 - Racing a Dog Star (Aug-2014)
3 - Roping a Planet (Sep-2014)
4 - Shooting the Moon (Oct-2014)
5 - A Covey of Quail (Nov-2014)
6 - Redbuds and Bullets (Mar-2015)

Book List in Order: 38 titles

  • Waiting For a Comet

    Jo Harper - 1

    During the long, hot spring of 1910 it seemed all 12-year-old Jo Harper could do was wait. Wait for her father, wait for her friends, wait for the comet that might appear in the sky and wipe out the whole town of Willowby, Wyoming once and for all. B...

  • This Summer Storm

  • Racing a Dog Star

    Jo Harper - 2

    Flung headlong into the Dog Days of summer by multiple mysteries that may or may not be related, Jo Harper and Frog Carpenter face: An uncanny schoolmaster!A bubbling, bucking Model-T!Rattlesnake danger!Old West outlaws!and the worst thing of all...t...

  • Roping a Planet

    Jo Harper - 3

    During the autumn of 1910 twelve-year old deputy constable Jo Harper is making the most of a warm Indian Summer until a deadly mystery brings a winter chill to the season. When chief badge toter Abby Drake asks Jo to help promote the movie career of ...

  • Shooting the Moon

    Jo Harper - 4

    Jo Harper looked forward to the Willowby, Wyoming fall festival all year, but will an explosive bank robbery blow up her career as a law woman? Going it alone under the harvest moon, the twelve-year old deputy constable will question everything she ...

  • Finding the Sky

    Twelve-year old Jo Harper thought 1910 would be another boring year in the Wyoming range town of Willowby, Wyoming. Then tough-talkin' pistol-shootin' Abby Drake came to town and made Jo a deputy law and order woman... Collecting four exciting Jo Har...

  • A Covey of Quail

    Jo Harper - 5

    He came to Willowby every Christmas, an Arapaho boy looking for something, looking for someone. The first thing Stranger Cat found in 1910 was Jake Trail’s bullets, the next thing he found was a family of friends. But then the weather turned bad, a...

  • Redbuds and Bullets

    Jo Harper - 6

    Thirteen year old Jo Harper's trip to attend the reading of her mysterious uncle's will isn't welcome news to everybody in Willowby, Wyoming, and with the notorious Casper Brothers on the loose, the spring of 1911 isn't the best time to steam across ...

  • Dogbread and Diamonds

    In the wild west, decades before Willowby, Wyoming was founded, Stink Carmichael robbed a stage coach of the famous Dakota Diamonds and was never heard from again. When Jo Harper and her best friend Frog find the loot in a hidden cellar, old secrets ...



  • Six-Gun Salad

    Would you cry over spilled potato salad? Would you risk your life for it? Jo Harper can't contain her frustration when a determined Danish lawyer and a hard-headed German farmer get ready to square off with guns over just that. But things are more th...

  • On Solid Ground

    In 1911, when trouble comes to Willowby, Wyoming, thirteen year-old Deputy Constable Jo Harper is usually on top of it. But trouble has a way of following Jo, and strangers aren't always what they seem. When old friends prove to be enemies, and enemi...

  • Sundown Western Tales

    Do you love stories about the untamed days of the Old West? Well, pardner, this is one collection of short tales you will not want to pass up! From old standards like Max Brand and Zane Grey to new authors and those in between, you’re sure to find...

  • Tough Job in Driftwood

    Acclaimed author Richard Prosch won the Western Writers of America Spur Award in 2016 for his short fiction. This volume of stories from old Wyoming and Nebraska brings the best of his westerns together under one cover for the first time. A wrecked w...

  • Season of Ice

    From the 1965 east-coast blackout to depression-era Nebraska; from the trash-piled streets of Manhattan to rural-South Carolina; here are 17 stories of innocent criminals, guilty bystanders, mob hit men, dead farmgirls, and small-town cops.Justice is...

  • Two for Midnight

    Echoes From the GraveLike any all-American boy living in the early 20th century, Phil Dunlap wants to make money.So when he sees an opportunity to sell phonograph records to his friends and family for profit, he jumps at the chance.But the wrong Purp...

  • Spalding's Groove

    Ex-state cop Dan Spalding isn’t looking for trouble when a broken TV star walks into his record store. But Tommy Stack’s vinyl collection isn’t what it seems to be, and that fact might cost Tommy his life. And death is always bad for business. ...

  • Answer Death

    Ex state cop Dan Spalding wants to run his vintage record store in peace. But when a punk who boosts a valuable LP turns up dead, it seems to relate to the revenge murder of an infamous entertainer. And Spalding is the next target. Dan Spalding navig...

  • Peregrine Returns

    Hired hand. Hired gun. The legends often precede him. And death follows behind. John Coburn wanders the Nebraska rough country, the windburned Wyoming range, and far beyond as the stranger men call The Peregrine. Collected here for the first time are...

  • Flip Side

    The job seems simple enough to Dan Spalding: provide private security for a geeky college professor and his beautiful red-haired girlfriend.But the flip side for this particular job turns out to be a brutal mix of love, betrayal, and vengeance.An...



  • Back Mask

    Ex-state cop Dan Spalding has a hell of a timekeeping up with his record shop and watching out for hairy dog friends like old Digger Strickland.When Digger’s sordid secrets call up a decades-old evil involving evangelist and Senate-hopeful Darian C...

  • Three for Midnight

    Social media is hell. Just as Jerry Nathan, a middle-aged hitman with an aversion to technology.But Jerry's friends want to interact online.Jerry's old dead friends.And if Jerry's dead, too, what then? Do you unfriend your killer?Plus: More horrific ...

  • The Scalper

    Two outlaws plot the demise of a woman from the past; A gunman is plagued by a passel of ornery cats; An emerging artist threatens the status quo of an old Wyoming camp; A young inventor follows in the footsteps of Thomas Edison and Sherlock Hol...

  • Stage Fright

    Pretty runaway Apple May strips nightly at Ozark City's newest club, but when she wants out it's Dan Spalding's job torun interference with mob boss Adrian Mitchell.Except the higher-ups aren't ready to let Apple go.In fact, they're dead set against ...

  • Holt County Collected

    Holt County, Nebraska, 1882.On the edge of unorganized territory with moneyed cattlemen and killer horse thieves, anything goes and everyone is suspect. But deputy sheriff Whit Branhamis still the law, still the man called  in to clean...

  • Needle Drop

    An explosive novel filled with motorcycles, martial arts, and mayhem from the author of Answer Death and Dead Beat.Stu Heinrichs was the kind of guy who drank beer with your dad and let you drive his Delorean. But he wasn't a good guy then, and he's ...

  • Hellbenders

    Texas-1859As the Rio Grande Valley reels from the onslaught of Cortina's Mexican insurgents, a Tejano named Cardoza lays siege to a prominent rancho. Ranger Lin Jarret takes the assignment to ride to the defense, and he's ready to fight the devil, no...

  • Seven Devils Road

    Chuckholes and raging rivers, fog, rain, and impossibly steep grades-it's the spring of 1860. The Butterfield Overland Trail is more than hazardous for a lone coach hurling down the Missouri run between Syracuse and Fort Smith, Arkansas. But for Tex...

  • A Killing At Rimrock

    When Ranger Lin Jarret and Reece Sinclair ride in, Lambert's Ferry across the Red River was a disputed oasis fueled by illegal alcohol and on the brink of a powder-smoke war. It's 1860, and Lambert and the Indian police were done with bootleggers, vo...

  • Dead Beat

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    For ex-cop Dan Spalding, the Ozarks are a dark and lonely place without Marti Stahl. And when a woman matching Marti's description is found drowned and beaten, Dan won't rest until he finds justice. Even if it means going through a vicious ...



  • Deep Cuts

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    When Dan Spalding's life is rocked by a single day of gut-wrenching violence, he's forced to consider a mob boss's final declaration. When the bad guys come after you, they'll come after your family too. They'll come after your friends. They'll ...

  • John Coburn Peregrine

    Hired hand.Hired gun.The legends often precede him.And death follows behind.John Coburn wanders the Nebraska rough country, the windburned Wyoming range, and far beyond as the stranger men call The Peregrine.Collected here for the first time are the ...

  • Five for Midnight

    Technology is murder...And revenge is a multi-level market with the not-so-good folks of PayBak (TM) furnishing the hardware.Conscience dictates prudence, but only if the voices in your head are tied to the right social media account.What's happening...

  • Pony Boys

  • Cast a Wide Loop

  • A Gentleman Detective and Other Western Stories

  • Under Western Stars

    As the sun goes down behind the long, low western horizon, imagine a gathering of friends who write stories, share stories, encourage new stories, and visit about the craft of fiction.As a reader, you'll find stories about family, lost and found. Tal...

  • Six Gun Justice

    The Six-Gun Justice Podcast celebrates the blazing six-gun action of the Western genre in books, movies, TV, and any other media at home on the range.· A marshal transports a deadly criminal through the hot Colorado summer…· A ca...

  • Over Western Trails

    The crack of the whip! The pounding of hooves! The Thunder of stagecoach wheels! It's all here in 15 tales of old west adventure edited by Richard Prosch and written by the following authors: Terry Alexander - J.D. Arnold - Dennis Doty - J.L. Guin - ...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Richard Prosch has published 38 books.

Richard Prosch does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Over Western Trails, was published in July 2024.

The first book by Richard Prosch, Waiting For a Comet, was published in May 2014.

Yes. Richard Prosch has 1 series.
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