Robert Knott: Robert B. Parker's The Bridge (USA 2016)

From the Publisher:
From the New York Times bestselling author of Robert B. Parker's Ironhorse -- and it's "everything we love about the Hitch & Cole series."
An ominous storm is rolling in over Appaloosa, carrying with it a band of night riders who show up at the Rio Blanco camp, where a three-hundred-foot bridge is under construction. When Appaloosa's sheriff and deputies suddenly vanish without a trace, territorial Marshals Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch saddle up to sort things out. But Cole and Hitch have no idea of the dangers they're about to face, or how far-reaching the destruction will be as the clouds over Appaloosa grow even darker.

Robert Knott: Robert B. Parker's The Bridge. A Novel. Berkley, ISBN: 9780425278086 (December, 2015), 370 p., $9.99.

Robert Knott: Robert B. Parker's The Bridge (USA 2015)

From the Publisher:
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 Café 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...

Robert Knott: Robert B. Parker's The Bridge. A Novel. Putnam's, ISBN: 9780399171130 (December, 2014), 312 p., $26.95.