Clay Reynolds is a legend of contemporary and historical Western fiction. He is the winner of the Western Writers of America Spur Award and the creator of tales of grit, daring, mystery, and determination bred by living in an unforgiving, starkly beautiful landscape.
These are tales of the settler's life on the Texas frontier, tales of the more recent past full of drive-ins, dusty towns, and mysteries hidden under a wide and all-seeing sky, and stories of contemporary passion, betrayal, and honor. For, in the end, it is the very landscape of the plains and altiplano of the American west that twists, burns, and sandblasts the souls of the people who inhabit it to a pure essence that Reynold's reveals on the page—an essence sometimes ugly, sometimes stunning, but always fascinating.
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"Ambitious and absorbing."—Larry McMurtry
"Ingenious . . . Leaves readers gasping and eager for more."—Stephen King
Monuments
Ars Poetica
Threading the Needle
The Tentmaker
Players
Franklin's Crossing
Agatite
The Vigil
Clay Reynolds is a legend of contemporary and historical Western fiction. He is the winner of the Western Writers of America Spur Award and the creator of tales of grit, daring, mystery, and determination bred by living in an unforgiving, starkly beautiful landscape.
These are tales of the settler's life on the Texas frontier, tales of the more recent past full of drive-ins, dusty towns, and mysteries hidden under a wide and all-seeing sky, and stories of contemporary passion, betrayal, and honor. For, in the end, it is the very landscape of the plains and altiplano of the American west that twists, burns, and sandblasts the souls of the people who inhabit it to a pure essence that Reynold's reveals on the page—an essence sometimes ugly, sometimes stunning, but always fascinating.
Each novel comes with an all-new introduction to the Baen Ebook Editions.
"Ambitious and absorbing."—Larry McMurtry
"Ingenious . . . Leaves readers gasping and eager for more."—Stephen King
Fleeing Atlanta a bad marriage, Imogene McBride heads west with her precocious, beautiful teenage daughter, Cora, when their car breaks down in a tiny North Texas town. While her mother sits out its repair, Cora wanders off to buy ice cream—and disappears without a trace.
So begins Imma’s vigil. As her waiting stretches from days and weeks into years, Imma becomes—as the town eccentric if not madwoman—a pivotal institution. And when the local sheriff works to unravel the mystery of Cora’s disappearance, a bond develops between the aging sheriff and the eccentric woman who brings Ezra both new hope and forces him to confront his own past.
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Clay Reynolds is the winner of the Western Writers of America Spur Award.
"[Reynolds] knows how to create and sustain tension without resorting to sensationalism. His book, like its protagonist, has a stubborn integrity that you can’t help admiring. [Imma’s] metamorphosis . . . is absorbing." —New York Times
When the Civil War ended, Gil Hooley journeyed out West, figuring that if there was any market left for his hand-crafted tents, it would be on the wide open frontier. But when his wagon breaks down in the middle of nowhere, a community begins to grow around him, one tent at a time, until Gil finds himself the unlikely leader-and defender-of his own town. Clay Reynolds tells the tale of a man who discovers that even if a place wasn't your destination, it might still be your destiny.
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Clay Reynolds is the winner of the Western Writers of America Spur Award.
"Ambitious and absorbing." –Larry McMurtry on The Tentmaker
Agatite, Texas is a sleepy Dust Bowl community of three thousand friendly people, with nothing to distinguish it from hundreds of other small towns, until the discovery of a dead body hanged in an abandoned outhouse sets into motion a series of events that alters the town forever. Shock follows shock in quick succession as Reynolds relentlessly develops his tale of murder and mob action, focusing on Able Newsome, the county sheriff, and Roy Breedlove, a former high school football star turned drifter, but involving the fate of the town and all its citizens.
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Clay Reynolds is the winner of the Western Writers of America Spur Award.
"Searing sex and savage death in a Texas town . . . strong stuff . . . gripping, fast-moving."—Houston Chronicle
One of Western fiction’s most celebrated novelists creates a story filled with all the passions and struggles of the people who forged a new country. Set in the vast grasslands of Texas just after the Civil War, Franklin's Crossing follows former slave and seasoned scout Moses Franklin as he leads a wagon train through Comanche territory to Sante Fe.
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Clay Reynolds is the winner of the Western Writers of America Spur Award.
"In this ambitious historical novel set ten years after the Civil War. . .Reynolds achieves a Louis L'Amour-style realism. . ."—Publishers Weekly
Fourteen-year-old Hugh Rudd had his summer planned: mow lawns, practice baseball, buy a new mountain bike, and get ready for high school. But the Burlington Northern Railroad's determination to demolish the Hendershot Grocery Warehouse, a symbol of Hugh's small Texas home town, causes Hugh to re-examine his plans. As the locals gear up to stop the railroad, long-held secrets about both the town and Hugh's own family come to light, and Hugh is caught up in the conflict to save his home town, and his family’s legacy.
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Clay Reynolds is the winner of the Western Writers of America Spur Award.
"This is Reynolds’s fourth novel about the dusty, hot, and sleepy West Texas town of Agatite, a faded stewpot of roiling passions, savage gossip, and crooked politics. . . . This warm and entertaining story is solidly written and vividly atmospheric. Reynolds spins a compelling yarn."—Publishers Weekly
Sherry Littlefield thought her brother died in a senseless drag racing accident, but the truth is even more horrifying: some portion of Keith may still be around. By piecing together clues, Sherry learns that her brother discovered a ghostly drag race that takes place every spring on the Old Loop, an antique stretch of highway that is inhabited by ghosts of the Texas past. On the line are the souls of the living and the dead—the stakes of beating a demon at his own game.
In a chilling mixture of the nostalgic and the supernatural, Clay Reynolds adds to his Sandhill Chronicles this tale of Faustian bargains, drag racing, old-time rock and roll, and a sister's love for a brother who dies tragically young.
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Clay Reynolds is the winner of the Western Writers of America Spur Award.
"Reynolds spins a compelling yarn."—Publishers Weekly
A satire on modern life as seen through the eyes of a poetic (and extremely insightful) curmudgeon.
Spur Award winning author Clay Reynolds explores the life of a modern-day Don Juan, a hedonistically ambitious poetaster of our own times, a self-styled Lothario, but, as the tragicomedy ultimately reveals, a man who ultimately discovers that he has more in common with Coleridge’s mariner than with any swashbuckling versifier of old.
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Clay Reynolds is the winner of the Western Writers of America Spur Award.
". . .a satire with many layers. . .Darkly comic and compelling fiction."—Booklist
Eddy Lovell is a rich man's son turned heavy hitter for the mob. Vicki Sigel is a wanna-be Hollywood actress who knows all about players and how to play them for fools. But when two thugs take her captive, it will join her fate with Eddy's. Soon Eddy and Vicki are thrust into a violent world of killers, crooks, and dealers making the most dangerous plays of all, against each other.
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Clay Reynolds is the winner of the Western Writers of America Spur Award.
"Ingenious . . . Leaves readers gasping and eager for more." –Stephen King
Clay Reynolds is a legend of contemporary and historical Western fiction. He is the winner of the Western Writers of America Spur Award and the creator of tales of grit, daring, mystery, and determination bred by living in an unforgiving, starkly beautiful landscape.
These are tales of the settler's life on the Texas frontier, tales of the more recent past full of drive-ins, dusty towns, and mysteries hidden under a wide and all-seeing sky, and stories of contemporary passion, betrayal, and honor. For, in the end, it is the very landscape of the plains and altiplano of the American west that twists, burns, and sandblasts the souls of the people who inhabit it to a pure essence that Reynold's reveals on the page—an essence sometimes ugly, sometimes stunning, but always fascinating.
Each novel comes with an all-new introduction to the Baen Ebook Editions.
"Ambitious and absorbing."—Larry McMurtry
"Ingenious . . . Leaves readers gasping and eager for more."—Stephen King