Sheriff Ben Stillman Books
Remembering his glorious past life as a lawman, Ben Stillman finds himself having to live up to his own legendary status when the admiring son of an old friend comes to him for help in defeating the ranchers who had killed the boy's father. Original.
Two years after restoring order in his home town, Ben Stillman returns from a stint with the Pinkertons to find a group of cowboys have taken over the town and gunned down and innocent man. Original.
FROM THE CURRENT KING OF THE SEXY, HARD-DRIVING ACTION WESTERN! The legendary Sheriff Ben Stillman series continues... Ben Stillman thought he'd finished dispensing hard justice in the town of Clantick in the Montana Territory. Then a courtesan and her latest client are found dead with their throats slit, and the citizenry demand immediate action. With a rising body count and no headway in the investigation, the townsfolk are ready to take the law into their own hands... In his career as a lawman, Stillman is used to the sudden violence of the frontier. But now he'll have to implement his detective skills from his years as a Pinkerton to determine the link between the victims, uncover the motive--and identify the killer...
When a murderous gang of outlaws takes refuge from the blizzard in a nearby mountain cabin, taking everyone inside hostage, it is up to Sheriff Ben Stillman to rescue the prisoners, but the situation is complicated when the lawman discovers that his wife is among the hostages. Original.
In revenge for a slaughtered mule, Shambeau, a Metis Indian, retaliates and finds himself on the run, an accused murdered, with Sheriff Ben Stillman in hot pursuit of the killer. Original.
While investigating the death of Marshal Charlie Boomhauer, Sheriff Ben Stillman, determined to bring the killer to justice, discovers that the residents of Lone Pine are hiding a dark and deadly secret. Original.
Sheriff Ben Stillman finds himself immersed in mystery when Tom Suthern, the owner of the Circle P Ranch, is brutally murdered and his future son-in-law, Matt Parrish, who desperately wanted Tom to sell the ranch to him, is found standing over the body. Original.
On his way home from a wedding, Sheriff Ben Stillman finds himself fighting a war against a clan of killers out for bloody revenge.
ALL HELL IS BREAKING LOOSE IN NORTHERN MONTANA! When Sheriff Ben Stillman’s deputy and best friend, Leon McMannigle, shoots a young woman who was about to shoot Stillman in the back, Leon takes the outlaw girl’s lifeless body back to her mountain ranch to turn her over to her family. He feels the need to explain himself, to personally account for the girl’s death. His explanation falls on deaf ears. Old Watt Hollister sends his wild sons led by his eldest boy, Nash, out on the trail to exact revenge for their poor dead sister. Wounded, McMannigle is alone and on the run in the Two-Bear Mountains, hunted like a calf-killing mountain lion. Ben Stillman isn’t at all happy when he gets wind of his friend’s fate. In fact, when you mess with Stillman’s friends or his family, it’s damn well guaranteed you have all-out war on your hands. Stillman’s War is the ninth novel in the fast-moving, western classic Sheriff Ben Stillman Series.
When Doctor Clyde Evans is kidnapped from his home in the middle of the night to tend a wounded outlaw, Sheriff Ben Stillman's problems are only just beginning. Stillman tracks the doctor to a remote cabin deep in the Two Bear Mountains. He springs the doctor, shoots the outlaws, and confiscates the bank loot. He also arrests a beautiful young outlaw, Hettie Styles, who promptly puts a bounty on Stillman's head. While Stillman waits for the sheriff from Sulfur to come for the stolen money and Hettie, he walks warily. All he needs is another bullet in his back. Compounding his problems, his old foe Jacob Henry Battles rides into town with a steel hook replacing the arm Stillman shot off years ago before sending Battles to prison. Dying from consumption, Battles was recently let out of Deer Lodge Pen. He says he's in town merely to settle down, but after a shot is fired into Stillman's house in the middle of the night, the sheriff thinks Battles is out for revenge. Meanwhile, Doc Evans must navigate more personal torments when young Evelyn Vincent, the waitress from Sam Wa's Cafe, professes her love for the older sawbones only weeks before Evans is due to be married to the Widow Kemmett As we've come to expect from Peter Brandvold, king of the fast-action, sexy, hard-hitting western novel, it's all here -- love and death, bullets and blood . .
LOVE AND DEATH, BULLETS AND BLOOD . . . Sheriff Ben Stillman finds himself in the unenviable position of having to arrest a young man for murder on suspicious evidence. But the cards are stacked against the young firebrand who calls himself Johnny Nevada. One, Johnny has gotten Judge Hoagland’s daughter pregnant, shaming and enraging Hoagland himself. Two, Johnny warned Dave Bliss he was going to kill him because Bliss ordered Johnny to stay away from Bliss’s daughter, Sarah, whom the young Casanova was also sparking. Johnny made the warning public and two weeks later Bliss was dead. Now Stillman has Johnny locked up in his jail at the courthouse. The judge wants to try the boy pronto and won’t recuse himself though under the circumstances Stillman knows he should. Meanwhile, a bank robbery in Clantick interrupts the wedding of Doctor Clyde Evans and Katherine Kemmett, giving the roguish doctor just enough time to reconsider his affection for not only bachelorhood but the pretty young waitress, Evelyn Vincent.
A High-Powered, Action-Packed Western Novella Featuring Sheriff Ben Stillman... Ben Stillman is on his way back to his hometown of Clantick after chasing illegal whiskey peddlers. He’s eager to be back in his warm home with his wife and young child. But when he runs into a saloon owner who’s been robbed, his best whore killed, the sheriff of Hill County finds himself on the trail of two young thieving killers, with a hard winter storm bearing down. The saloon owner himself, John Stock, rides along with Stillman. Stock isn’t much help. He’s a loudmouthed drunk, and he ends up getting his horse shot out from under him. Still, he and Stillman plod deep into the Missouri Breaks, on the trail of the two whore-killing thieves. Their trail leads them to Perdition Bend—a notorious outlaw hideout. There, surrounded by wooly-eyed outlaws with itchy trigger fingers, Stillman feels like the lone jackrabbit at a rattlesnake convention...
In the first, full-length novel of this gritty, fast-moving western duo, Once More with a Vengeance, Sheriff Ben Stillman finds himself in the unenviable position of having to arrest a young man for murder on suspicious evidence. But the cards are stacked against the young firebrand who calls himself Johnny Nevada. One, Johnny has gotten Judge Hoagland's daughter pregnant, shaming and enraging Hoagland himself. Two, Johnny warned Dave Bliss he was going to kill him because Bliss ordered Johnny to stay away from Bliss's daughter, Sarah, whom the young Casanova was also sparking. Johnny made the warning public and two weeks later Bliss was dead. In the novella, Rattlesnake Convention, Ben finds himself on the trail of two young thieving killers with a hard winter storm bearing down.
FROM THE CURRENT KING OF THE WILD AND WOOLY, BEST-SELLING WESTERN SERIES! Legendary Montana lawman Ben Stillman is transporting a prisoner, a former friend of his, back to the town where the man and his gang had robbed a bank, to stand trial. Stillman’s also packing the stolen loot. Along the way he picks up a young white woman and her Indian boy who are on the run from a pack of blood-thirsty human wolves led by a prominent area rancher. The rancher wants revenge on the woman, because she killed the man’s son in self-defense. Stillman finds himself on the run from not only the woman’s enemies but from his prisoner’s gang, as well. Turns out his prisoner double-crossed his partners, and now they want him and Stillman dead…and the money back in their hands. Stillman’s Gun is book 13 in the fast-moving, western classic Sheriff Ben Stillman Series.
ROBBERS AND COLD BLOODED KILLERS WON’T STOP STILLMAN Sheriff Ben Stillman’s wife, Fay, and the Clantick town doctor, Clyde Evans, are riding the stage back to Clantick from Rocky Ford when the coach is hit by Dutch Wayne’s outlaw gang, including Dutch’s simple-minded son, Waylon. Waylon is badly injured during the robbery, so Dutch forces the doctor and Fay to ride with his gang as they head to their outlaw hideout in the Highwood Mountains. Back in Clantick, Ben Stillman gets word of the robbery via the telegraph, and rides off in hard pursuit. His task is made more difficult when rancher Phil Triber leads his own men after the outlaws. Dutch Wayne’s gang stole the coach’s strongbox carrying fifty thousand dollars belonging to Triber, and Triber wants it back. Stillman demands Triber and his men turn back. The sheriff is afraid that in their zealousness they’ll get the hostages killed. Stillman doesn’t give a damn about the money. He’s desperate to overtake the robbers and cold-blooded killers before they murder his wife and the doctor. He doesn’t realize just how badly Triber wants that money returned to him…nor what it is for.