Chuck Curtis

Holmes on the Range

By Steve Hockensmith - Published 2006

Genres:

Mystery/CrimeWestern

When a writer mixes genres, such as a Sherlock Holmes-style mystery and a Western, you hold your breath. Can two such disparate styles ...Read Review

Doniphan’s Thousand

By Les Savage Jr. - Published 2005

Genres:

Biographical FictionWestern

How did Alexander Doniphan, a Missouri lawyer, win command of the 1st Missouri Volunteers in the Mexican War? In the custom of the ...Read Review

Dragon Keeper

By Carol Wilkinson - Published 2005

Genres:

Children/Young AdultHistorical Fantasy

Carol Wilkinson waves her pencil like a magic wand and creates a fantasy world set in 141 B.C. China that’s as real ...Read Review

Shark Island

By Joan Druett - Published 2005

Genres:

Mystery/CrimeNautical

In this second novel of her Wiki Coffin series, Joan Druett returns to the successful recipe she used in Watery Grave: one part ...Read Review

Coal Camp Justice

By Ricardo L. Garcia - Published 2005Published Univ. of New Mexico Press

Genres:

EpicMystery/Crime

The time is the Great Depression; the place is a coal mining community in northern New Mexico. Raymond “Swannie” Swanson struggles with the ...Read Review

Bent Red Moon

By Russ Hall - Published 2005

Genres:

AdventureRomanceWestern

There’s a reason why the boy-gets-girl, boy-loses-girl, boy-finds-girl formula has lasted so long. It’s a story that readers continually find interesting. ...Read Review

The German Officer’s Boy

By Harlan Greene - Published 2005

Genres:

Biographical FictionLiterary

Most historians agree that the 1938 murder of a German diplomat in Paris by a teenaged Jew provided the excuse for Kristallnacht, the upsurge ...Read Review

Riders of Deathwater Valley

By James C. Work - Published 2005

Genres:

Historical FantasyWestern

Art Pendragon, owner of the Keystone Ranch, faces problems from every quarter. Outlaws have graduated from rustling his neighbor’s cattle to kidnapping ...Read Review

On the Spur of Speed

By J.E. Fender - Published 2005

Genres:

NauticalSaga

In volume four of the Frost series, J.E. Fender provides a new insight into a seldom-seen Revolutionary War battle, a detailed look ...Read Review

New Mercies

By Sandra Dallas - Published 2005

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

The first character we meet in this new Nora Bondurant novel is not a person, but a house. Nora, a character familiar to ...Read Review