Novels
WRONG TOWN (ROAMER, Book 1)
One man’s quest to lose himself in the West
New revised editions: Ebook and softcover, Gritty Press, 184 pages, March 2012
Available from: Amazon
Softcover, FA Thorpe/Ulverscroft, 2009
Hardcover, Robert Hale Ltd., 2008
Wrong Town (Roamer Book 1) - Gritty Press Edition
Wrong Town - Linford Edition
Wrong Town - Black Horse Edition
First in the gritty, all-action Western series by Spur Award-nominated author Matthew P. Mayo, featuring Roamer, loner with a face everyone fears.
Roamer is having a bad day–he is savaged by a grizzly, robbed by bandits, and attacked by wolves. So by the time he makes it to the little Rocky Mountain town of Tall Pine all he wants is a cup of coffee, a hot meal, and a soft bed. The sheriff jails him for murder instead.Layers of lies and a string of killings blacken the very soul of Tall Pine as a seething mob marks Roamer’s homely face as guilty and seeks its twisted justice with his blood. Can he stop the townsfolk from destroying themselves or will they kill him first? It’s a brutal race against time for Roamer as the savage mob rips apart its little town, leaving innocent people dead and the wrong people in charge.
(Black Horse or Linford Editions)
Dead Man's Ranch
DEAD MAN’S RANCH (A Ralph Compton Western)
Mass market paperback, Signet, March 6, 2012
304 pages
Available from: Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Indiebound | Powell’s
Brian Middleton was sent back East as a child, raised in a life of privilege. 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 scheming local lowlifes and a drifting, murderous con-man after the Dancing M ranch, Middleton has no choice but to make a stand, though it may well cost him everything.
HOT LEAD, COLD HEART
Softcover, FA Thorpe/Ulverscroft, November, 2009
Hardcover, Robert Hale Ltd., October, 2008
Hot Lead Cold Heart - Linford Edition
Hot Lead Cold Heart - Black Horse Edition
His 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‚ town he’s confident he can transform into the ‘Washington of the West,’ given enough time. But a demon from his past haunts the horizon, and time is running short.
Mason the Mankiller, vigilante hero to the downtrodden, has come out of retirement to settle one last score‚ the only one that ever mattered‚ with a man who long ago forgot he’d wronged the famous ‘killer of killers’. A tonic peddler, vengeful sisters, and a reluctant lawman all dog Mason’s trail. But he vows that nothing will stop him from seeing this last mission through to its end‚ an end he knows he won’t survive.
(Black Horse or Linford Editions)
WINTERS’ WAR
Winters' War - Linford Edition
Winters' War - Black Horse Edition
Softcover, FA Thorpe/Ulverscroft, 2008
Hardcover, Robert Hale Ltd., 2007
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, ripping open old wounds, and devolving their lives into a brutal struggle for survival.Niall Winters returns from selling his fall herd to find his ranch a burned ruin, his Uncle Drift dead, his wife missing, and the blizzard covering any clues with a whole lot of snow. He heads into the raging maw of the storm determined to confront this demon from his past and salvage the remains of their shattered lives–or die trying. But he has no idea of the horrors that await him.
(Black Horse or Linford Editions)
