Books like Robert B. Parker's Blackjack by Robert Knott

Cold Mountain follows wounded Confederate soldier Inman's perilous journey home to his love Ada, interweaving his odyssey through the war‑torn South with Ada’s struggle to revive her family farm, as both confront a nation and themselves in transition.

Inspector Alan Grant of Scotland York investigates the true identity of King Richard III, challenging the historic image of the notorious Tudor tyrant.

Federal Marshal Raylan Givens investigates a kidney‑trafficking ring after uncovering a sickened, drug‑intoxicated suspect in his bathtub—a gripping Kentucky crime thriller.

Three guns‑for‑hire in a Wild West town seek redemption while battling murder and alcohol abuse as the fragile frontier life tests their loyalties.

Territorial marshals Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch escort prisoners across Indian Territories, only to face a perilous mission when the Texas governor and his family board the train with $500,000 and the threat of the ruthless outlaw Bloody Bob Brandice.

Mickey Haller, a cynical Los Angeles criminal defense lawyer, tackles a high‑paying case that turns out to be far more dangerous than it first appears.

When gunfighter Virgil Cole and former marshal Everett Hitch arrive in the town of Appaloosa, they confront a renegade rancher who has killed the city marshal and a deputy, turning a frontier justice case into a personal blood‑bowl.

"The next gritty, gun-slinging entry in the New York Times-bestselling series, featuring itinerant lawmen Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch. Territorial Marshals Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch are back in Appaloosa, where their work enforcing the law has been exceptionally quiet. All that is about to change. An ominous storm rolls in, and along with it a band of night riders with a devious scheme, who show up at the Rio Blanco camp, where a three-hundred-foot bridge is under construction. Appaloosa's Sheriff Sledge Driskill and his deputies are the first to respond, but as the storm grows more threatening, news of troubles at the bridge escalate and the Sheriff and his deputies go missing. Virgil and Everett saddle up to sort things out but before they do the hard drinking, Beauregard Beauchamp arrives in Appaloosa with his Theatrical Extravaganza troupe and the promise of the best in lively entertainment west of the Mississippi. With the troupe comes a lovely and mysterious fortune-teller who is set on saving Everett from imminent but indefinable danger. The trouble at the bridge, the missing lawmen, the new arrivals, and Everett's shoot-out in front of Hal's Cafe; aren't the only things on Cole and Hitch's plate as a gang of unsavory soldiers ease into town with a shady alibi, shadier intentions, and a soon-to-be-discovered wake of destruction. As clouds over Appaloosa continue to gather, things get much worse for Cole and Hitch ... "-- "The next gritty, gun-slinging entry in the New York Times-bestselling series featuring itinerant lawmen Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch"--