Paul Lederer

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  • Bibliography:
    55 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 2014
  • Latest Book:
    December 2014
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Full Series List in Order

Spectros

1 - Showdown at Guyamas (Dec-2014)
2 - Silverado (Dec-2014)
3 - Hunt the Beast Down (Dec-2014)
4 - Natchez (Dec-2014)
5 - The Silver Canyon (Dec-2014)

Book List in Order: 55 titles

  • The Moon Around Sarah

    Sarah cannot speak. Born with the ability, but having lost the inclination, Sarah lives in silence, surrounded by the noise of her bickering family, who are gathered to discuss the selling of the family homestead. But there is no room for sentiment a...

  • Climax

    In a lonely western town, a marshal stands in the way of a gang of killers There is nothing to love about the town of Climax, a godforsaken speck of earth with one saloon, one restaurant, and one lawman. Ever since he got too old to ride the range...

  • Comes a Horseman

    Armed to the teeth, Dancer comes to town with death on his mind The rider carries three pistols and a couple of rifles to boot. John Dancer arrives in Matchstick with enough firepower to stop an army. No one knows his target, but this tiny Western...

  • Ghost Ranch

    Caught in a land war, two gunmen are forced to shoot their way out A bloated dead cow bakes in the hot desert sun. This grisly omen is the first creature Trinity and Billy Raglan have seen since they stepped onto the deserted Bar-D Ranch, a desola...

  • The Lonesome Death of Joe Savage

    While searching for his cousin, a cowpuncher uncovers a dark family secret After a hard drive from Texas, cowhand Tracy Keyes finds himself in Abilene, Kansas, with money to burn. A telegram waits from his mother, begging him to go to Wyoming to l...

  • The Outlaw's Daughter

    In search of a kidnapped boy, a gunslinger takes a young girl along for the ride Rain looms over the prairie when Matt Holiday sees a gang of horsemen abduct the boy. The only man who could have kidnapped young Will Waverly is his father, an outla...

  • Beyond the Crimson Skies

    Left for dead on the range, a cowboy vows revenge

    Fifty thoroughbreds. Three hundred miles. Four thousand dollars. Driving those horses across Cheyenne territory is a crazy risk, but the only alternative is to give up the ranch. For...

  • The Bounty Killers

    On the run from a bounty hunter, a bank robber searches for mercyBilly Gillis waits on the street as his cousin Pearly robs the bank. Fresh out of Yuma prison, Pearly has not killed anyone since his release, but with each robbery the cousins pull, th...

  • Derailed

    When their train is hijacked, two railroad detectives take to the prairie On the Colorado railroad, two men enforce the law: a hired gun named Tango and a smoothly dressed sleuth named Ned Chambers. As they pass through the frozen landscape on the...



  • The Devil's Canyon

    On a tortuous cattle drive, a cowboy battles weather, Comanches, and his own men The land is lush -- but bare of cattle. Colonel Tremaine never expected his ranch’s grass to come in so thick, and with his health failing, the old soldier lacks the ...

  • Gunsmoke Mountain

    Asked to rescue a missing girl, a gunman finds trouble everywhereCelia lies in bed when the man comes through her window. He whispers instructions, and she follows him into the night. Has she been kidnapped, or did she go of her own accord? To Celiaâ...

  • The Hellrakers

    On a do-or-die ride across the prairie, a rancher’s gang betrays him For Skyler Lynch, retirement from the army was supposed to mean easy living, running a farm, and making a tidy profit breeding horses on the side. But when bad weather dooms hi...

  • The Highwaymen

    Along a lonely stretch of desert, a bandit robs for revenge The Chicolote stagecoach is just outside of town when a highwayman tricks the driver into stopping. With a long-barreled hunting rifle, he forces the passengers to hand over their valuabl...

  • Long Blows the North Wind

    To avenge his murdered friend, a young fur trapper will risk everything After the Sioux attacked, Sad Sam found young Brian McCulloch in the ruins of the wagon train, surrounded by the bodies of his slaughtered family. He took the frightened child...

  • On the Wapiti Range

    Desperate for a kill, a mysterious hunting party invades a settler’s landYears ago, Lee Trent did a favor for the Cheyenne, who rewarded him by setting aside a parcel of land where no man but he could hunt, trap, or homestead. He lived quietly in t...

  • The Outlaw Life

    Near death, a gunman finds safe haven -- and a new life -- in an outlaw town Tucker finds Chase Carver huddled in an alleyway behind a restaurant, fighting wild dogs for scraps of food. Shortly thereafter Tucker offers Chase a square meal and a wa...

  • The Outpost

    In a lonely army outpost, a group of misfits waits for rescue -- or deathA few minutes before midnight in the barren New Mexico desert, Big John leads a prisoner to his doom. Although only nineteen years old, the boy is a killer, and will be hanged a...

  • The Predators

    Fired from the railroad, a pair of misfits looks for revenge In 1873, the Winchester repeating rifle is the cutting edge of military technology. In order to steal a shipment of the priceless guns, two crooked railroad employees hire a half-dozen b...

  • The Prisoner of Gun Hill

    On the run from a posse, a killer becomes a slave When Luke Walsh hears Dee Dee Bright calling for help, he breaks down her hotel room door. He finds the dance-hall beauty half-naked underneath a brutish man, and draws his gun without thinking. Su...



  • Quinn's Last Run

    When a driver is killed, a young man takes the reins The stagecoach rumbles toward Yuma when Tom Quinn hears the war whoop. A dozen Apaches strike, hungry for blood. Their first volley finds the driver, forcing Quinn to drive with one hand and sho...

  • Ransom

    When a banker’s daughter is kidnapped, it takes an evil deed to get her backTwo horsemen appear on the eastern edge of Crater, a dusty Western town as dry and barren as the sinkhole that gave it its name. The riders disappear around the back of the...

  • Rolling Thunder

    A settler returns to the town he founded to burn it to the groundWhen Tom Quinn first came to the little patch of prairie that would become Stratton, it wasn’t paradise, but it was close. The town he built there was beautiful in a humble way, an ho...

  • The Rose Canyon Gang

    When ranch hands turn bad, four cowboys go to war to protect their boss Four men crouch in the meager shelter of Rose Canyon, vowing revenge against the man who kicked them off the MM Ranch. Two are old hands who have been punching cattle since th...

  • Six Days to Sundown

    As winter bears down, a gang of settlers races for their livesCasey Storm doesn’t know who the Shadow Riders are. He only knows that they want to kill him. A dozen men in black slickers set upon Casey as soon as he reaches Montana, chasing him acro...

  • The Way Station

    In a dusty, far-off way station, trouble finds a retired gunman Virginia fell in love with Cameron Black as a young girl. The sight of a trained killer with guns on his hips set her heart fluttering. But as the years wore on, she drifted away, una...

  • West of Tombstone

    In the Arizona wasteland, a wanderer meets a man he cannot trust

    Cameron Black gallops across the alkali flats on a stolen horse, a Henry rifle at his side. Horse theft is a hanging offense in Arizona, but that means nothing to Cam....

  • Whiplash

    After a hard cattle drive, a trio of cowboys takes on a vicious killer Jerry, Sandy, and Turk relax in the Durant saloon while sipping whiskey, showing off their new clothes, and waiting for night to fall. They have just finished a long drive, and...

  • Dakota Skies

    A natural tracker does all he can to help a woman escape the Dakota TerritoryWhen the harsh winters of the Black Hills snuffed out his father’s life, Miles Donovan was left with no inheritance but knowledge of every trail, creek, and ridge in the ...

  • Dark Angel Riding

    On a broken ankle, a vengeful man carves a path into hellJohn Dancer hauls himself out of bed and stuffs his swollen ankle into his boot, gritting his teeth through the pain. That boot won’t come off again unless he cuts through the leather, but fo...



  • Dead Man's Guns

    Rescued by settlers, an injured lawman fights to regain his memoryHis horse shot out from under him, the sheriff scrambles across ragged wasteland, desperate to outrun the four riders behind him. Bullets sing through the air as the chase comes to an ...

  • Hangtown

    In a deserted western town, two drifters fight to stay aliveThe place is called Hangtown, and it’s as dead as a man with a noose cinched ‘round his neck. Josh Banks and Wage Carson rode here in search of work, but they found the settlement dried ...

  • Incident at Coyote Wells

    In the barren Sonora desert, a thirsty drifter makes a promise to a dying manFresh out of jail, John Magadan sets out for the oasis of Coyote Wells. When he finds the spring dried up, he knows he will likely die. He trudges on, and hears a voice call...

  • The Killing Time

    An out-of-work lawman rides into the hills in search of a runaway killerBefore he draws his gun, Tom Dyce waits for John Bass to shoot first. He plugs the killer in the stomach but doesn’t fire again. A marshal’s deputy, Tom has never killed a ma...

  • The Land Grabbers

    Framed for murder, an honest man rides over the desert to clear his nameJake Shockley has his feet up in the tavern when his twin comes through the door. The stranger isn’t his brother, but may as well be, and Jake sees opportunity there -- a chanc...

  • The Legacy

    An elderly rancher is shot to death over a dispute about a hidden treasure

    J. Pierce Buchanan has spent a lifetime tearing a living out of the open range -- battling droughts and wildfire, Indians and bandits. At ninety, he has accu...

  • The Lost Trail

    After two years in jail, a cowboy searches for his sweetheartIt’s bold for a cowhand to woo his boss’s daughter, but John Tanner can’t help loving Becky Canasta. Their courtship is upended by Matt Doyle, a spurned admirer who considers Becky to...

  • Mystery Herd

    A soldier returns home to find his family at war with itselfWhen Russell Bates gets his father’s message that the family ranch is in trouble, he does not hesitate to ask his commander for leave. When his request is denied, the cavalryman takes matt...

  • On the Great Plains

    In a deserted cabin on the Great Plains, a settler tries to make a homeRincon and his two companions ride out of the frigid night, and demand shelter in the sagging old cabin. They have gold in their saddlebags and the army on their tail, and they ne...

  • Overland Stage

    Chased by bandits, stagecoach passengers race for their lives

    Eleanor Gates is a long way from Baltimore. Love for a cavalry lieutenant has lured her across the western plains, to an outpost so remote that it can only be reached by ...



  • Rogue Law

    Run off his land, a rancher is forced to take the most dangerous job in town: marshalJulius Lang is chatting with the marshal when the killers ride down Main Street, and he doesn’t have time to reach for his gun before a storm of bullets cuts the l...

  • Smuggler's Gulch

    Lost in the Mexican desert, a cowboy stumbles upon a mysterious settlementThe cattle drive was Jake’s last chance. After promising a fortune to any man willing to make the long trek across the Mexican border, the ranch boss skipped out at journeyâ€...

  • Tanglefoot

    In a cutthroat western town, a newcomer is tricked into helping an outlawAfter three days in a stagecoach, Chad Dempster is weary, dusty, and sore. On his first step into Las Palmas, he slips, and crashes face first into the dirt. His clumsiness earn...

  • The Tanglewood Desperadoes

    Driven off their land, a gang of settlers turns to a life of crime

    A few miles outside of town lies the Tanglewood, a savage maze choked with inedible plants and overrun with deadly animals. The sharpest trackers in the West would l...

  • The Tarnished Badge

    The men of a posse on the trail of an outlaw begin to turn on one anotherWhat made Jake Worthy rob his hometown bank? Was it stupidity? Daring? Or did he simply not think the men of Quirt, Arizona, had the skill to catch him? Three days out of Quirt,...

  • Travelin' Money

    Flat broke and crippled, a cowhand takes a job from a doomed manAt the end of a backbreaking cattle drive, a steer turns on Joe Sample, pinning him against a fence and snapping his leg. He will never ride right again. Recovering from the wound emptie...

  • Cougar Tracks

    To avenge his beloved, an old tracker comes out of retirement After years fighting the Apache for the United States Army, Carroll Cougar builds a cabin in the heart of the Texas prairie. When a local rancher tries to take it away from him, Cougar tak...

  • The Reluctant Gun Hand

    Fresh out of prison, a gunman who wants to put the past behind him has no choice but to join a gang of outlaws There was a time when Jake Worthy wouldn’t have been arrested for killing the gambler in the Tucson saloon. The card cheat drew his gun f...

  • Skeleton Hand

    In a desolate mountain shack, three ranchers find a hidden treasure On a freezing mountainside, three out-of-work cowboys are near death when one of them spies a long-abandoned trapper's shack. It is little more than a pile of old logs, but it has...

  • Trace Takes a Hand

    With the help of three strangers, a girl fights to rescue her father When he sees the string of riders coming over the horizon, Luke Cason sends his daughter, Sally, to hide in the basement. She trembles in the dark, chilled by the terrible sounds...



  • The Trail Breakers

    To forge a new trail, a cowboy ventures into a frightening wilderness Glen Wycherly’s ranch holds two thousand cattle on ten thousand acres, and there is no one who knows the land better than Ray Hardin. But in all his years working for old man Wyc...

  • Hunt the Beast Down

    Spectros - 3

    The third installment in the Spectros series: In pursuit of his beloved, the master magician makes landfall on the Oregon coast

    From Natchez to Denver, Mexico to Montana, Dr. Spectros has chased his nemesis, Blackschuster, across t...

  • Natchez

    Spectros - 4

    A spooky and sinister army confronts Dr. Spectros in the swamplands of Mississippi The ship full of enslaved Africans arrived in Natchez just before the end of the Civil War. Freed by the Union army, the Telingas found themselves in a strange land w...

  • Showdown at Guyamas

    Spectros - 1

    In the thrilling first installment in this genre-busting series, Spectros journeys to Mexican mining country to confront the conjurer who kidnapped his bride

    A narrow carriage rumbles through the treacherous mountains of Sonora. In...

  • The Silver Canyon

    Spectros - 5

    The stirring final installment in a series that combines the thrills of the Old West with supernatural chills

    In the cold desert night, gunslinger Ray Featherskill rides alone. On the horizon, he sees two men sitting at a roaring c...

  • Silverado

    Spectros - 2

    The origins of a timeless blood feud are revealed in the second installment of the uncanny and enthralling Spectros series

    When a ship sinks off the coast of India, a lone survivor washes ashore -- a mysterious young man from the ...

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Paul Lederer has published 55 books.

Paul Lederer does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Silver Canyon, was published in December 2014.

The first book by Paul Lederer, The Moon Around Sarah, was published in January 2014.

Yes. Paul Lederer has 1 series.
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