Luke Starbuck Novels Series

He rode for his own brand of justice...Texas rancher Ben Langham left his sprawling inheritance to the man he trusted most: Luke Starbuck. Once Starbuck had dreamed of owning land of his own. Now he was more interested in finding out who gunned down Ben Langham. With the Cattlemen's Association behind him, Starbuck has all the authority he needs to ride into New Mexico on the path of a murderous band of thieves. But he didn't count on coming face to face with a scrawny killer named William "the Kid' Bonney, a shifty sheriff named Pat Garrett, or the true story behind the legendary Lincoln County War. Suddenly, Luke Starbuck is up against more than a killer or two. He's striking at a conspiracy that reaches into the heart of power - and to a handful of men who have already decided that Luke Starbuck must die...

Tombstone and the Spoilers

by Matt Braun

Published 2 January 2008

Hangman's Creek

by M Braun and Matt Braun

Published 1 July 1979

Hangman's Creek is the first book in the Luke Starbuck series. Braun has received the Western Writers of America Golden Spur Award for his bestselling epic The Kincaids. In addition to a strong reissue programme, we have recently published original Braun titles, including The Kincaids, Doc Holliday, Gentleman Rogue, Hickok and Cody, and The Wild Ones. Braun's newsletter reaches hundreds of booksellers and fans. Matt Braun is the recipient of The Cowboy Spirit Award in March of 2000 and was inducted into the Cowboy Hall of Fame.

Tombstone

by Matt Braun

Published 1 April 1981

In 1878, a struggling prospector found silver in the jagged mountains of Arizona. Within a year the town of Tombstone was filling up with merchants, tradesmen, gamblers, whores and gunslingers. And then the Earp family came to Tombstone - five brothers with their women and their wives. Along with Doc Holliday and a band of thieves, Wyatt Earp treated the Arizona territory as his personal stomping grounds - until Wells Fargo decided to put an end to the string of savage stage robberies. With the legend of the OK Corral shootout fanning out across the frontier, private detective Luke Starbuck was sent to Tombstone to find the truth. And when he got there, Starbuck's mission turned into one burning, personal obsession: to kill Wyatt Earp...

The Judas Tree

by Matt Braun

Published 1 April 1982

Some men were digging for gold. Some men were digging graves. And someone was getting away with murder... You went through a rugged paradise to reach Virginia City, Montana. Then you came to hell: a ramshackle town where fifty-six men have been killed, dozens of stagecoaches have been robbed, and a fanatical vigilante leader is threatening to blow the town sky-high. In Denver, Luke Starbuck was hired to stop the epidemic. But when he gets to Virginia City, he finds a tough sheriff already hanging outlaws as fast as he can, a mystery swirling around a young woman's murder, and a whole lot of people with blood on their hands. Working undercover with the help of a beautiful stage star, Starbuck soon discovers that the chaos of Virginia City is really a well-oiled and murderous crime machine. To take it apart, the West's most legendary detective has to find the Judas lurking behind every violent crime-and then he has to kill him...

Manhunter

by Matt Braun

Published 1 September 1981

When Luke Starbuck takes on a wealthy banker as a client, the only thing more compelling than the paycheck is his prey. The James-Younger gang has confounded countless detectives, including the men of the Pinkerton Agency. Now it's Starbuck's chance to bring down the most notorious group of outlaws the West has ever seen - led by none other than cold-blooded killer Jesse James. Undercover work and patient tracking take Starbuck from Kansas City straight through the Indian Territory. But when Jesse outwits him during a bank heist in Minnesota, innocent blood is spilled, and Starbuck's mission becomes a down-and-dirty vendetta that will leave one man standing- and the other six feet under...

Deadwood

by Matt Braun

Published March 1983

"MATT BRAUN IS A MASTER STORYTELLER OF FRONTIER HISTORY." -Elmer Kelton
IN THIS TOWN

Five thousand dollars. That was what a slick Denver lawyer-representing a mysterious client-offered to pay the legendary manhunter Luke Starbuck. The job: to find a way into Wyoming's infamous Hole-in-the-Wall outlaw stronghold and shoot a bad man dead. Starbuck knew there was something wrong with the deal. And by the time he reached the foothills of the Big Horns he had a good idea what it was: he'd been set up to be killed.

ANY MOMENT COULD BE YOUR LAST...
Now, making his way among lawmen, gunmen, and free spirits riding on both sides of the law, Starbuck is traveling to Salt Lake City and all the way back to Denver to find the mystery man who wants him dead. But with key players dying every step of the way, Starbuck must find his answers within his own violent past-and in a Badlands town called Deadwood, where secrets are sealed in blood.

"BRAUN IS ONE OF THE BEST!"-Don Coldsmith, author of the Spanish Bit series

The Spoilers

by Matt Braun

Published 1 April 1981

A rare breed of bulldog ad bloodhound, private detective Luke Starbuck's been hired to ferret out the Judas working for the Central Pacific - a mastermind behind a string of train robberies. The target: gold shipments from the Frisco mint. All Starbuck has to do is pass himself off as an outlaw and infiltrate the pack. But chumming up to a gang leader like Denny O'Brien means following him into the vice pits of the notorious Barbary Coast. Getting inside this hellhole of crime is dangerously easy if you make the right moves. Make the wrong ones, and getting out could be murder

Manhunter / Deadwood

by Matt Braun

Published 4 March 2008

Hangman's Creek / Jury of Six

by Matt Braun

Published 30 October 2007