The Coyote Tracker

Name: The Coyote Tracker
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Larry D. Sweazy
ISBN: 9781490623665

Author: Larry D. Sweazy

Series: Josiah Wolfe #5

Narrator: Tom Stechschulte

Unabridged: 9 hr 2 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 02/07/2014

Categories: Fiction, Western

Synopsis

Winner of the Spur Award for Best Mass Market Paperback After a prostitute is murdered at the Easy Nickel saloon, Texas Ranger Josiah Wolfe finds his best friend, Scrap Elliot, in jail and wrongly accused. A strangely familiar horse and a mysterious code are the only clues Josiah has to prove his friend's innocence and save him from execution. Once a Yankee reporter gets involved, Josiah is led to Blanche Dumont's House of Pleasures, where he learns of a thieving, jail-broken accountant with strange ties to both the Easy Nickel and the town's wealthiest banker. With a new railroad line blazing into town, everyone--especially the arrogant young sheriff--is determined to clean up Austin. Faced with the ticking clock of Scrap's impending trial, Josiah Wolfe must find out who it was that went one step too far.

About Larry D. Sweazy

Larry D. Sweazy is the author of over fifteen novels. He won the Western Writers of America Spur Award for Best Short Fiction in 2005 and for Best Paperback Original in 2013, and the 2011 and 2012 Will Rogers Medallion Award for Western Fiction for the Josiah Wolfe series. He was nominated for a Short Mystery Fiction Society Derringer award in 2007 and won the Best Books of Indiana literary competition in 2011 for The Scorpion Trail. He won he inaugural Elmer Kelton Book Award in 2013. In 2019, he won the Women Writing the West Willa Award for See Also Proof. He has published over eighty nonfiction articles and short stories, which have appeared in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine and several other publications and anthologies. He is also a freelance indexer, which also served as inspiration for the Marjorie Trumaine Mystery series. More information can be found at www.larrydsweazy.com.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Donald on April 29, 2021

except or little too much verbiage that is distracting at times, it is an good read...! Nicely developed plot, good, solid characters but a wee bit too much description in places where it becomes a distraction from the main storyline. Will stay with the series but hoing fr more action and less distr......more

Goodreads review by Don A. Whitehead, Sr. on May 31, 2018

The Saga Cotinues This book continues the saga of Josiah Wolfe. Good character development builds interest in the individuals so you want to keep reading the stories to find out what the author has in store for them.......more

Goodreads review by George F. Sommers on February 11, 2018

Good read Have not been able to finish due to kindle difficulties. Perhaps I will be able to fiddle with the blame thing and get back into it.......more

Goodreads review by Kevintipple on May 19, 2013

May 1875 finds Texas Ranger Josiah Wolfe back in Austin, Texas and very much in career limbo. Wolfe is still is a Texas Ranger despite the recent events and the media backlash. But, he has been told to stay in Austin and await the arrival of Captain Leander McNelly who will decide one more time if R......more

Goodreads review by Vic on August 29, 2020

A good western tale with good character development, an interesting plot line, a surprise ending and good pacing. Not in my 100 favorite books of all time, but certainly a good read and worth the effort to do so . I am glad that I bought it and read it.......more