C.M. Wendelboe

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  • Bibliography:
    20 Books (4 Series)
  • First Book:
    March 2011
  • Latest Book:
    October 2023
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Full Series List in Order

A Bitter Wind Mystery

1 - Hunting the Five Point Killer (Oct-2017)
2 - Hunting the Saturday Night Strangler (Oct-2018)
3 - Hunting the VA Slayer (Dec-2019)
4 - Hunting the Mail Order Murderer (May-2022)

A Nelson Lane Frontier Mystery

1 - Marshal and the Moonshiner (Jan-2018)
2 - The Marshal and the Sinister Still (Feb-2019)
3 - The Marshal and the Mystical Mountain (Apr-2020)

A Spirit Road Mystery / Manny Tanno

1 - Death Along the Spirit Road (Mar-2011)
2 - Death Where the Bad Rocks Live (Sep-2012)
3 - Death on the Greasy Grass (Jun-2013)
4 - Death Etched in Stone (Jan-2019)
5 - Death through Destiny's Door (Apr-2021)
6 - Death Under the Deluge (Oct-2023)

A Tucker Ashley Western Adventure

1 - Backed to the Wall (Sep-2017)
2 - Seeking Justice (Sep-2018)
3 - When the Gold Dust Died in Deadwood (Nov-2019)
4 - Fork in the False Trail (Aug-2021)

Book List in Order: 20 titles

  • Death Along the Spirit Road

    A Spirit Road Mystery / Manny Tanno - 1

    First in a new series featuring FBI agent Manny Tanno- a Native American returning to the reservation home he thought he left behind. The body of local Native American land developer Jason Red Cloud is found on the site for his new resort on the P...

  • Death Where the Bad Rocks Live

    A Spirit Road Mystery / Manny Tanno - 2

    FBI agent Manny Tanno thought he had left his tribe and the Pine Ridge Reservation behind him years ago. But now with a cold case unearthed in the hot plains sun, he knows that the past never really goes away. In Badlands National Park, there is ...

  • Death on the Greasy Grass

    A Spirit Road Mystery / Manny Tanno - 3

    FBI agent Manny Tanno is taking some much needed R and R at the site of the Battle of Little Big Horn. But when a death on the reservation cuts his vacation short, he learns that the secrets of the past have a way of stirring up trouble in the presen...

  • Backed to the Wall

    A Tucker Ashley Western Adventure - 1

    Outlaws―fueled by cruelty they became addicted to during the War Between the States―roam and prey upon anyone unfortunate enough to cross their trail. In the Dakota Territory of the 1870s, the line between outlaw and lawman is often blurred. Some...

  • Hunting the Five Point Killer

    A Bitter Wind Mystery - 1

    On the tenth anniversary of a series of unsolved murders, the Five Point Killer is back for blood--and retired cop Arn Anderson could be the next investigator who gets too close to the truth. Retired detective Arn Anderson never thought he'd be br...

  • Marshal and the Moonshiner

    A Nelson Lane Frontier Mystery - 1

    Gangsters and hoodlums prey upon people's weaknesses for a quick buck in an era that saw few bucks to spare, making criminals of everyday folks in the rural Great Depression. In a place as wild as the West ever was, during the heyday of the badmen an...

  • Seeking Justice

    A Tucker Ashley Western Adventure - 2

    The Bucket of Blood saloon is robbed, the owner murdered, and one of his upstairs-girls abducted. Tucker Ashley talked himself into tracking for the posse--only because the kidnapped girl is his best friend's fiancé. Tucker leads the pathetic pos...

  • Hunting the Saturday Night Strangler

    A Bitter Wind Mystery - 2

    Retired homicide detective Arn Anderson tracks a coldblooded killer Two innocent victims, strangled to death on consecutive Saturday nights. Even as they see the pattern emerging, retired detective Arn Anderson and TV reporter Ana Maria Villarreal...

  • Death Etched in Stone

    A Spirit Road Mystery / Manny Tanno - 4

    Lakota FBI Agent Manny Tanno is back in action with his faithful tribal offi cer sidekick Willie when a man is found drowned in a Pine Ridge Reservation Lake. The apparently accidental drowning turns out to be murder, and the investigation takes them...



  • The Marshal and the Sinister Still

    A Nelson Lane Frontier Mystery - 2

    Nelson Lane finds himself once again assisting local law enforcement in Wyoming. This time it's a tribal policeman enlisting the US marshal's help to find a girl who has gone missing from the Wind River reservation. It's a good excuse to take a br...

  • An Extralegal Affair

    "Wendelboe is a skilled writer who ratchets up the suspense." ―Margaret Coel, New York Times bestselling author of Winter's Child Former disbarred Philadelphia attorney J. Balm Hendy found his calling chasing ambulances and drawing easy out-of-cour...

  • The Man Who Hated Hickok

    It's 1876 and Cheyenne--long a haven for thugs and thieves--has taken on an air of civility. Until Wild Bill Hickock comes to town and humiliates a local gunman's mentally-challenged brother to the point of suicide. Ira Drang promptly vows to hunt...

  • When the Gold Dust Died in Deadwood

    A Tucker Ashley Western Adventure - 3

    Fresh out of the Territorial Prison, Tucker Ashley and his friend Jack stake a claim during the Black Hills gold rush. But it has been jumped by two men. Jack and Tucker are confronted by Rule Enforcers for the Mining District, Zell McGinty and hi...

  • Hunting the VA Slayer

    A Bitter Wind Mystery - 3

    Retired Denver homicide detective Arn Anderson returned to his sleepy hometown in Wyoming just to restore his boyhood home -- but he keeps getting caught up in chasing serial killers. An old friend of Arn's wants him to look into the suspicious death...

  • The Marshal and the Mystical Mountain

    A Nelson Lane Frontier Mystery - 3

    "U.S. marshal Nelson Lane has more than his fair share of unlikely allies: This time it's a tabloid reporter-who turns up missing after he tries to sneak into the Mystical Mountain hunting lodge. Nestled in the rugged and scenic Big Horn Mountains of...

  • Death through Destiny's Door

    A Spirit Road Mystery / Manny Tanno - 5

    Nearly a century and a half ago, Oglala Lakota leader Crazy Horse was tragically killed in custody and buried. His parents whisked away his remains to a location known only to them, safe from marauding trophy seekers and thieves. His grave has never ...

  • Fork in the False Trail

    A Tucker Ashley Western Adventure - 4

  • Hunting the Mail Order Murderer

    A Bitter Wind Mystery - 4

    A lovely Filipino is found dead in the city park. The body of a Russian beauty is found lifeless in a run-down motel. The corpse of a gorgeous Eastern European is discovered in a park forty miles away. All strangled. All mail order brides. All connec...

  • The Marshal and the Fatal Foreclosure

    U.S. Marshal Nelson Lane is trying to aid his deputy in evicting Lucky Graber, a failed Wyoming rancher, when a dead man is found on Lucky's land, apparently killed in a hunting accident. The victim, Gino Bonelli, took an interest in Lucky's ranch sh...



  • Death Under the Deluge

    A Spirit Road Mystery / Manny Tanno - 6

    A corpse is found lashed to a submerged cabin under the Missouri River just south of a Sioux Indian reservation... A corpse tied there perhaps seventy years ago... A corpse shot and tied there just before the river was flooded over a resort island fi...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

C.M. Wendelboe has published 20 books.

C.M. Wendelboe does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Death Under the Deluge, was published in October 2023.

The first book by C.M. Wendelboe, Death Along the Spirit Road, was published in March 2011.

Yes. C.M. Wendelboe has 4 series.
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