The Sundown Chaser

Herschel Baker #3

by Dusty Richards

More information to be announced soon on this forthcoming title from Penguin USA

Genres: Westerns

288 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2009

About the author

Author of over 85 novels, Dusty Richards is the only author to win two Spur awards in one year (2007), one for his novel The Horse Creek Incident and another for his short story “Comanche Moon.” He is a member of the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association and the International Professional Rodeo Association, and serves on the local PRCA rodeo board. Dusty is also an inductee in the Arkansas Writers Hall of Fame. He currently resides in northwest Arkansas. He was the winner of the 2010 Will Rogers Medallion Award for Western Fiction for his novel Texas Blood Feud and honored by the National Cowboy Hall of Fame in 2009.

Reviews

[Teresa · Rating 5 out of 5]

Loved this continuation of the Herschel Baker series. There were familiar characters as well as new ones to love and hate. The plot moved seamlessly from one thread to another with a brilliant culmination full of plenty of twists and turns. I felt as if I was right in the scenes, with real people throughout the action. I listened to the audio version and the narration was excellent. This can easily be read as a standalone, but with Mr Richards' skillful story telling, why would anyone want to miss a one! Five stars all the way!

[Catyj · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is one of the better Westerns I have read of late - I found myself caring about Herschel & Thurman and their families, about how their journeys would end and their stories come together.
Yes, it's an old-fashioned Western but it's thoroughly enjoyable - I'd be tempted to read more by Dusty Richards.

[Bea · Rating 4 out of 5]

A western with a strong plot and a number of characters to care about what happens to them. Strong men and women and stereotypes avoided. All those factors make for a good read as Thurman Baker travels across country to find the young son he abandoned. That son is now a well respected sheriff who may not want to do what his father has in mind.

[Elizabeth West · Rating 5 out of 5]

Herschel Baker

The Sundown Chaser book Three of the series by Dusty Richards. It's a good book that continues the story of the lawman and the crime plaguing his community. In this book we meet a family and learn some of the history of Herschel.

[Barbara Maddox · Rating 4 out of 5]

A classic, satisfying Western. I like stories where the main characters don't hide knowledge from each other. It is so frustrating when one character knows something and doesn't think to tell the other person; not so in this story.

[Richard Guerrero · Rating 4 out of 5]

A lot better, I really did enjoy this one. Good characters and story. Just a good western read.

[Miles Swarthout · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is Dusty Richards' Wrangler Award winning Best Western Novel of 2009, given out annually by the Western Heritage Association affiliated with the National Cowboy Hall of Fame in Oklahoma City, where these ceremonies are held every year. Quite an honor and quite unusual for an original paperback Western to beat out the few hard cover Westerns still coming out occasionally from NY publishers.

I liked Dusty's characters, especially the older man's Indian girlfriend, and the author's leavening his story with accurate Western details about small town life and horses and tack. The father tracking down his younger son who disappeared many years ago to become a Sheriff in distant Montana (from the Mexican border where he grew up) takes a long time with parallel stories before finally merging together at the end. Dusty also avoids almost all the gunplay in this tale, merely tossing away any violence with very limited climatic description. I also thought he could have used a better title that had more to do with his story. All that criticism said, this is still a very well written, non-standard Western, which is probably why it won its national Western writing award back in 2009. Good to catch up with one of Dusty Richards' many Westerns.

[Frank Snell · Rating 2 out of 5]

An old fashioned Western.

[Larry Holshu · Rating 4 out of 5]

Excellent book. Good story. The author, Dusty Richards, keeps your interest throughout. Looking forward to reading more of his books.