The Bradys in Texas

A ranch drowning in blood. A killer hiding in plain sight. Two detectives who never lose.

Old King Brady has seen every kind of crime New York can throw at him. But when a Texas rancher sends word of a murder so baffling it has a whole frontier town stumped, the legendary detective and his sharp young partner Harry ride west into something darker than anything they expected.

Colonel Hubert is dead — bound to his own horse, mutilated beyond recognition, delivered back to his daughter like a message. The suspects all have alibis. The motive is buried under prairie dust. And every man in Lone Tree has a theory, a grudge, or a secret.

Brady sees through it faster than anyone expects. Beneath the blood and sand lies a familiar poison — a young man's obsessive love, a fortune within reach, and a hired hand willing to do the ugliest kind of work. The trail leads from a stolen watch to a midnight rendezvous to a web of conspiracy that reaches deeper than a single knife.

But knowing the truth and proving it are two very different things. Out here, justice comes at the end of a gun — and someone is watching the Bradys far more closely than they realise.

Grace Hubert has promised herself to the man who avenges her father. The killer is already playing that game.

Can the Bradys expose him before he collects his prize?