In a world where evil wears a hundred faces, the most dangerous man in the room is the one who has already studied yours.
Deputy U.S. Marshal Coble Bray is still healing from a skull fracture when a mysterious stranger rides into Lamar, Missouri and tries to kill him. That's just the opening move. A summons to Carthage puts Coble in a boarding-house room with a headless body and one word written in blood on the wall: PRIDE. Then a second murder. Then a third. Someone is working through the Seven Deadly Sins — methodically, invisibly — and the only person who seems to understand the pattern is Coble.
Behind the killings is Harlan Vexler — a brilliant and ruthless consultant who studies men the way a scientist studies specimens, then weaponizes what he learns. Vexler doesn't brawl. He simply watches, calculates, and waits for the moment a man's own nature destroys him.
When Vexler turns his attention to Coble and the people Coble loves, the marshal must choose between keeping his distance and drawing a line that may cost him everything.
Can Coble outthink a man who has already thought of everything, or will the devil collect what's due?
"A Western in the vein of Louis L'Amour." —Linda Broday, New York Times bestselling author
THE DEVIL'S DUE is a gripping historical mystery set in 1880s Missouri: part procedural, part chess match, part character study, and entirely impossible to put down. Get your copy today.
Genre: Western
Deputy U.S. Marshal Coble Bray is still healing from a skull fracture when a mysterious stranger rides into Lamar, Missouri and tries to kill him. That's just the opening move. A summons to Carthage puts Coble in a boarding-house room with a headless body and one word written in blood on the wall: PRIDE. Then a second murder. Then a third. Someone is working through the Seven Deadly Sins — methodically, invisibly — and the only person who seems to understand the pattern is Coble.
Behind the killings is Harlan Vexler — a brilliant and ruthless consultant who studies men the way a scientist studies specimens, then weaponizes what he learns. Vexler doesn't brawl. He simply watches, calculates, and waits for the moment a man's own nature destroys him.
When Vexler turns his attention to Coble and the people Coble loves, the marshal must choose between keeping his distance and drawing a line that may cost him everything.
Can Coble outthink a man who has already thought of everything, or will the devil collect what's due?
"A Western in the vein of Louis L'Amour." —Linda Broday, New York Times bestselling author
THE DEVIL'S DUE is a gripping historical mystery set in 1880s Missouri: part procedural, part chess match, part character study, and entirely impossible to put down. Get your copy today.
Genre: Western