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  • Bibliography:
    25 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    March 2008
  • Latest Book:
    December 2011
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Full Series List in Order

Joshua Dillard

1 - Shootout at Hellyer's Creek ()
2 - The Gunman and the Actress ()
3 - The Sandhills Shootings ()
4 - Ride the Wild Country ()
5 - The Lawman and the Songbird ()
6 - Sons And Gunslicks (May-2008)

Misfit Lil

1 - Misfit Lil Rides In ()
2 - Misfit Lil Gets Even ()
3 - Misfit Lil Fights Back ()
4 - Misfit Lil Hides Out (Mar-2008)
5 - Misfit Lil Cleans Up (Oct-2008)

Book List in Order: 25 titles




  • Where was Emily Greatheart? The pretty young lady from Denver who had gone to Arizona to meet her dead fiance's mother had vanished. Only a bloodstained jacket was found in an abandoned spring buggy hired from the Pike's Crossing livery stable."...



  • A senseless killing stopped Jackson Farraday - scout, guide, man of the West - from investigating an odd situation in the raw mining settlement called Black Dog. For answers, he tricked Lilian Goodnight into spying at the High Meadows cattle ranch....



  • In Denver, a shotgun blast brutally ends a man’s life and sets in motion a deadly chain of events that threatens Joshua Dillard, drifting detective and former Pinkerton agent. Hired by a beautiful woman to untangle the mystery of her brother’s mu...



  • For Jim Hunter war and the Reconstruction has wrought changes beyond endurance. His former sweetheart, pretty Alice Cornhill, has been claimed by another. So Jim rides out and into the arms of his wartime love, the gun-running adventuress Lena-Marie....



  • Sheriff Sam Hammond was nudging fifty, conscious of his years and sometimes wondering just why he'd become a lawman in the first place. Then the troubles really began.First, he narrowly escaped with his life after a moonlight gun battle with a trio o...



  • Misfit Lil's misalliance with the reckless Texan cowboy Lucky M'Cline began while her true friend, mature frontiersman Jackson Farraday, was away in the Henry Mountains. Lil's crackshot skills saved M'Cline from the claws of a wounded, man-hating cou...



  • Ex-cavalryman Yale Cannon rode to Antelope for two very different reasons - in search of an old sweetheart and to bring out Red Effingham, a gunslick killer the sheriff had locked up in the ranch town's jailhouse - so he decided to use one mission as...



  • Misfit Lil was riding for a fall. She'd chosen to intervene in the fortunes of a wagon train of emigrants, incompetently led by erstwhile outlaw, Luke Reiner, their guide. Lil's first mistake was to save a bunch of children when the wagons were caugh...






  • Joshua Dillard, the ex-Pinkerton detective, on a sentimental journey to a mission graveyeard in Texas, had ridden into trouble. Guns blazed around the headstones as he intervened to save a girl called Faith from the clutches of Lyte Grumman and his g...



  • As dangerous as unstable dynamite - that was Sheriff Ross Kemp's assessment of Jessica Blackwood. She was darkly beautiful, and she was married to the richest rancher around. Mysterious notes, a bizarre accusation, and the bushwhack murder of her mad...



  • Crazy Bob McGill, spying on Sheriff Dan Vickers, is saddened to discover his own daughter, Liberty, sharing the isolation of Vickers' fishing retreat. However, unknown to Bob, Liberty is being blackmailed and trying to protect her sorry marriage to s...



  • Tod Larraby was a deadly shot, an ex-Confederate guerrilla with a reputation to match. But when he was tricked into shooting a crooked gambler in a Colorado mining town, a dubious price was set for his freedom. Lord Buckhampton, a bull-headed British...



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    Kearny reckons he has a job for life, but after winning a fight with the brutish troublemaker 'Bull' Jusserand, Kearny is dealt an inexplicable blow. Old Pete abruptly quits the struggle for survival and sells out to his sworn enemy--Jusserand's boss...



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    Drift Garrity follows a gruelling cowboy life. Working the grub line, poorly fed and without prospects, he determines to unravel the mysteries of the deprived past that has made him what he is. The trail leads Drift to dirty tricks, accusations and f...



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    To be paid a heap of money just for protecting a fancy French actress and her troupe of players whilst they visited the wild west town didn't seem that difficult. But Joshua Dillard hadn't banked on the charms of the actress, and the fact that someon...



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    Kyle Hardy rode into Sweetwater Valley with a job to do. Before he could act, however, guns blazed on Main Street and Kyle was pitched into a bitter conflict. On one side was Big Bart Brannigan, cattle baron and ruthless land grabber; on the other, p...



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    Pinkerton detective Joshua Dillard is sent to a lawless Montana boomtown. He immediately sets his sights on the arrogant Blackie Dukes and his bunch. Then the safe at the Magnet saloon is robbed from right under his nose. Seven years later, Joshua re...



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    Misfit Lil wasn't about to let the rustlers run off a bunch of her pa's improved Flying G cattle. She started a stampede that trampled them bloodily into the dust. But that was only the prelude to the affair....






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    While Silver Vein's cheering citizens watch Misfit Lil confirm her reputation as 'Princess of Pistoleers' in a gala shooting match, Yuma Nat Hawkins and his gang rob the bank in the near-empty town, gunning down the feeble opposition in cold blood. S...



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    A band of Apache bucks - led by a charismatic hothead - has forsaken reservation life to go on a bloody rampage. In pursuit with Lieutenant Michael Covington's detail is civilian scout Jackson Farraday. But a showdown looms between the pair when Jack...



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    When Tom Tolley, ex-Confederate fighter in the Civil War returns home to the family farm in Arizona, he is met with flying lead...The heiress is Mary-Ann, daughter of millionaire Huey J. Charters. Sparks fly when Tom, dispossessed of his farm, meets ...



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    When San Francisco becomes too hot for trouble-shooter Joshua Dillard after a vice lord draws a gun on him, he brings forward a railroad trip to the wilds of Colorado. Joshua is soon embroiled in more bloody mayhem, this time with devious lawyer Walt...



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    Joshua Dillard was a gun for hire. He was also a man given to doing what he had a mind to do. So he refused the presumptuous Omaha financier Fergus O'Callaghan's money, but rode the trouble-busting trail to the Sandhills region of Nebraska anyhow. In...



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    Paid to mind other folk's business, Joshua Dillard did it with a .45 Colt Peacemaker. But he also had a mission of his own and when Butch Simich and his bunch stuck up the stage from Tucson he swung into vengeful action. The fight led into treacherou...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Chap O'Keefe has published 25 books.

Chap O'Keefe does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Outlaw and the Lady, was published in December 2011.

The first book by Chap O'Keefe, Misfit Lil Hides Out, was published in March 2008.

Yes. Chap O'Keefe has 2 series.