Johnny Dead — Howard Hopkins

...believable characters and settings will have you breathing 1800s dust and seeing by the flickering light of an oil lamp as you turn every tension-filled page.--Tim Greaton, Maine's Other Author (TM)Two years ago, ambushed by masked killers, brought down by blazing guns, manhunter John Deletéreo, his wife and unborn child perished under the hot New Mexico sun, the only testament to their demise two simple graves on a hillside.So when he rides into the hellhole known as Payton's Bluff, seeking answers to a mystery plaguing him since birth, townsfolk think they've seen a ghost. Legend calls him Johnny Dead, a man with a skull-carved Peacemaker who delivers grim justice, then vanishes into the Western night. Then on a darkened trail, he encounters beautiful but bitter Kylie Barton, a young woman bent on revenge against the powerful Galendez family. Having sought the help of a pathological killer to avenge a brutal attack, she sets in motion events that threaten to end the career of a man many claim isn't even alive...The master of Westerns...--Sue Hartigan, All About Murder ReviewsBy the same author: Pistolero, The Dark Riders & The Chloe Files