"Mountain revenge is a true crime novel, written by the police officer who investigated this unsolved murder."

Winner of the 2020 Dashiell Hammett Award for Literary Excellence in Crime Writing Acclaimed author and "remarkably gifted storyteller" (The Charlotte Observer) David Joy returns with a fierce and tender tale of a father, an addict, a lawman, and the explosive events that come to unite them. When his addict son gets in deep with his dealer, it takes everything Raymond Mathis has to bail him out of trouble one last time. Frustrated by the slow pace and limitations of the law, Raymond decides to take matters into his own hands. After a workplace accident left him out of a job and in pain, Denny Rattler has spent years chasing his next high. He supports his habit through careful theft, following strict rules that keep him under the radar and out of jail. But when faced with opportunities too easy to resist, Denny makes two choices that change everything. For months, the DEA has been chasing the drug supply in the mountains to no avail, when a lead--just one word--sets one agent on a path to crack the case wide open . . . but he'll need help from the most unexpected quarter. As chance brings together these men from different sides of a relentless epidemic, each may come to find that his opportunity for redemption lies with the others.

The struggle of the Lance family to live a life of honor in spite of the murder of one of its members.

He traded his Bible for a gun Preacher Teague is a troubled man. Everything he ever hoped for was taken away from him in a few brutal moments and turned him from respected and beloved preacher to gunman. Riding the trail with death before and behind, he was a hardened man seeking revenge upon those who destroyed his life. He attracted trouble, yet his compassion never died. Riding into an unfamiliar town in search of a break from the solitude of the West, he found himself embroiled in a fight which wasn't his but which he couldn't avoid. A young lady and her brother are up against the wall and being run off their land by a man with no scruples. It wasn't his fight, but he couldn't turn away.

Smoke Jensen runs into an old enemy and his vicious gang in this latest book in Johnstone's bestselling series.

As Brett watched, one hand slipped loose, then the other. Tom dropped, screaming, into the flames. His body, all red and bubbled, boiled up once to the surface, then was gone. PLAYER ONE HAS ONE LIFE REMAINING. GAME CONTINUES. Flaming fire rivers. Divebombing buzz-bugs. A cruel king waiting to do battle in his computer-generated castle. Video game whizzes Brett Wilder and Tom Houston think that new virtual reality game Rodomonte’s Revenge is awesome-until it takes over their minds. Then the game playing becomes dangerously real, and one wrong move could be the last.

The Barker brothers and their friend Delilah secretly climb up to Superstition Mountain one last time, hoping to solve the remaining mysteries, including whether the librarian is really the ghost of Julia Thomas, what was their uncle Hank's role in discovering the gold mine, and especially, who is trying to kill them.