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Collected Stories by Janice Galloway


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Black Pearls, Blue Diamonds & Bullets


Paul L. Thompson - 2017
    Thompson... U.S. Marshal Shorty Thompson is on the case again when a young English girl and her brother are robbed of their precious family jewels they are trying to safely get to San Francisco. Outlaws abound, all trying to get their hands on the loot, but they have a bit of a surprise when they come face to face with scrappy young Margret, backed up by Shorty. Plenty of bullets are shot both ways, but will the bad guys win? Excitement, shoot-outs, and life or death situations ensue, all over some black pearls and blue diamonds.

Hunt-U.S. Marshal VII: Frontier Justice


W.L. Cox - 2014
    Deputy Marshals, Clayton returns after escorting Storm Warrior to the docks in Boston just in time to aid Jed, who is on dangerous mission where he is outnumbered, and a Sheriff Deputy has been killed. Hunt knows his team has grown in strength, however; he is worried about U.S. Marshal Dodd, who has been staying out at Hunt's ranch recovering from a bullet wound. Hunt is overwhelmed with calls for help from victims of foul play across the desolate land where justice often falls into the victim's own two hands. It's up to Hunt and the other U.S. Marshals to be there for the ones in trouble, and to prevent innocent people from being killed, and to settle the wild western plains so the settlers will know that there is a law in these wild, and unsettled lands, and know that the criminals will pay.

Pressor: United States Marshal: A Western


John D. Fie Jr. - 2017
    Thomas, WL Cox, and Duane Boehm filled with action, adventure and plot twists such as C. K. Crigger, Chet Cunningham, and A.H Holt! This is a book that is filled with crime, corruption and a lot of crime to clean up! A Sheriff always catches the bad man, even if the man he is chasing is a dangerous killer. One highly skilled Sheriff called Luke Pressor finds himself at a settlement called Solution with problems to solve, killers to fight and a lot of action to take care of. This exciting new Western from john D. Fie. Jr takes the reader on a one-man rampage as a Sheriff cuts through crime to get a job done. But what is it about Solution that changes this rugged Lawman to change his ways?

The DCI Jack Logan Collection Books 1-3: A Scottish Crime Fiction Series


J.D. Kirk - 2020
    

Corsican Gold: An Archaeological Thriller (A Darwin Lacroix Adventure)


Dave Bartell - 2021
    

Tally's Blood: A Playscript for Higher Drama (National Qualifications Curriculum Support)


Ann Marie Di Mambro - 2002
    

Shuggie Bain


Douglas Stuart - 2020
    Thatcher's policies have put husbands and sons out of work, and the city's notorious drugs epidemic is waiting in the wings. Shuggie's mother Agnes walks a wayward path: she is Shuggie's guiding light but a burden for him and his siblings. She dreams of a house with its own front door while she flicks through the pages of the Freemans catalogue, ordering a little happiness on credit, anything to brighten up her grey life. Married to a philandering taxi-driver husband, Agnes keeps her pride by looking good--her beehive, make-up, and pearly-white false teeth offer a glamourous image of a Glaswegian Elizabeth Taylor. But under the surface, Agnes finds increasing solace in drink, and she drains away the lion's share of each week's benefits--all the family has to live on--on cans of extra-strong lager hidden in handbags and poured into tea mugs. Agnes's older children find their own ways to get a safe distance from their mother, abandoning Shuggie to care for her as she swings between alcoholic binges and sobriety. Shuggie is meanwhile struggling to somehow become the normal boy he desperately longs to be, but everyone has realized that he is "no right," a boy with a secret that all but him can see. Agnes is supportive of her son, but her addiction has the power to eclipse everyone close to her--even her beloved Shuggie.A heartbreaking story of addiction, sexuality, and love, Shuggie Bain is an epic portrayal of a working-class family that is rarely seen in fiction. Recalling the work of Edouard Louis, Alan Hollinghurst, Frank McCourt, and Hanya Yanagihara, it is a blistering debut by a brilliant novelist who has a powerful and important story to tell.