New Releases – William W. Johnstone Books

New Releases are shown by year in descending order. Titles are “clickable” when a book has been added to the website. Titles and release months are subject to change. Pre-orders for New Releases may be ordered one month in advance of release only.
All books will be 5.5″ x 8.5″ format except for Hardbacks.

2027 Tentative Schedule - Subject to Change

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JANUARY 2027
The Promise of America – (Other Westerns)
Preacher’s Wrath – (First Mtn Man Series)
The Boys From Luckenbach – (New Series of the Western Frontier)

MARCH 2027
The Bloody Chisholm Trail – (Boys From Luckenback Series)
Blood In The Creek – (Montana Gold Rush – New Series)
Hook, Line, and Lead – (Catfish Charlie Series)
Blood in the Creek – HB
Hook, Line, and Lead – HB

MAY 2027
Town of Fire and Blood – (Dead Broke Colorado Series)
Bullets In The Creek – (Montana Gold Rush Series)
Railroad Rustlers – (Other Western)
Bullets In The Creek – HB
Railroad Rustlers – HB

* All books are Trade Paperbacks unless noted.
** HB = Library Hardback
*** Library Hardbacks and Reissues are not included in the Book Club.

JULY 2027
Killing Time – (Murphy’s Law Series)
Smoke Jensen – The Man, The Myth, The Legend – (Smoke Jensen Series)
Calamity James #2 – (Calamity James Series)
Killing Time – HB
Smoke Jensen – The Man, The Myth, The Legend – HB

SEPTEMBER 2027
The First Ride of the Dirty Creek Gang – (Dirty Creek Gang Series)
Bridger – (New Series)
Ladies of the Evening – (New Series)
Bridger – HB

NOVEMBER 2027
Christmas #13 – (Christmas Series)
Mountain Man Smoke Jensen #55 – (Mountain Man Series)
Derringer #2 – (Derringer Series)
Derringer #2 – HB

2026 Schedule - Subject to Change

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JANUARY 2026
Born To Be Killed – (Smoke Jensen Series) – Library Hardback

MARCH 2026
Preacher’s Hell – (First Mtn Man Series) – Trade Paperback
Shoot Or Cut Bait –(Catfish Charlie Series) – Trade Paperback
The Last Ride Of The Dirty Creek Gang – (New Series) – Trade Paperback
Murphy’s Law –(New Series) – Library Hardback

APRIL 2026
A Week From Never – (Murphy’s Law Series) – Library Hardback

MAY 2026
Born To Be Killed – (Smoke Jensen Series) – Trade Paperback
Bullet, Biscuits, and Bloodshed – (Luke Jensen/Dewey McKenzie Series) – Trade Paperback
Murphy’s Law – (New Series) – Trade Paperback

JUNE 2026
Rampage of the Desert Wolf – (Smoke Jensen Series) – Library Hardback

JULY 2026
Fool’s Gold – (The Forty-Niners Series) – Trade Paperback
A Week From Never – (Murphy’s Law Series) – Trade Paperback
Fury Over Texas – (Stand Alone) – Trade Paperback
Whiskey Woods – (New Series) – Library Hardback

SEPTEMBER 2026
Whiskey Woods – (New Series) – Trade Paperback
Rampage of the Desert Wolf – (Smoke Jensen Series) – Trade Paperback
The Valley of Three Forks – (Stand alone) – Trade Paperback

OCTOBER 2026
Double Shot – (Whiskey Woods Series) – Library Hardback

NOVEMBER 2026
Double Shot – (Whiskey Woods Series) – Trade Paperback
A Preacher Christmas – (Christmas Series) – Trade Paperback
Reckoning of the Mountain Man – (Mtn Man Series) – Trade Paperback

2025 Tentative Release Schedule - Subject to Change

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JANUARY 2025
Preacher’s Strike – The First Mountain Man Series
Forty Times A Killer – Other Westerns – Reissue

FEBRUARY 2025
Purgatory Crossing – Nathan Stark Series
Leaving Independence – Go West Young Man Series
Scream of Eagles – Eagle Series – Reissue

MARCH 2025
Halfway To Hell – Slick Parker – New Series
The Dead We Honor – Other Fiction/Action/Thriller
Shot In The Back – Other Westerns – Reissue

APRIL 2025
Dead Broke Colorado – New Series
Hard Men To Kill – Hard Men To Kill – New Series
A Nest of Vipers – The Fighting O’Neils Series*

MAY 2025
The High Country – To The Rivers End Series – Trade Paperback
I’m Here To Kill You – Omnibus Book 2 in 1 – Brutal Night and Venom of the Mountain Man
Cold Dead Cash – Shotgun Johnny Series – Reissue
Colton Gray, Dep US Marshall – Hardback

JUNE 2025
Lone Wulff – Lone Wulff – New Series*
On The Royle Range – Forever Texas Series – Reissue Mass Market
Rage Of Eagles – Eagles Series – Reissue

JULY 2025
Calamity James –New Series
The Man From Blood Gulch – A Ghost McCoy Western
These Men Chose Hell – Fort Misery Series
Derringer – New Series – Hardback

AUGUST 2025
Everybody Has A Gun – Texas Lightning Series
Contagious – A Stony Stonebridge Western*
Heat Lightning – Tinhorn Series – Reissue

SEPTEMBER 2025
Derringer – New Series – Paperback
The Best of Enemies – A Trace and Chaw Western
The Forty-Niners – The Forty Niners Series – Reissue

OCTOBER 2025
Painting The Town Red – Dead Broke Colorado Series
A Fine Day For A Hanging – Stony Stonebridge Series*
Texas Hill Country – New Series – Trade Paperback
As Good As Dead – Omnibus 2 in 1 – Strike / Butchery of the Mtn Man

NOVEMBER 2025
A Frontier Christmas – Christmas Series – Reissue Trade Paperback
Kill Me Tomorrow – Old Cowboys Never Die Series – Reissue MM
A Coffin For Tomahawk – The Last Wagon Train Series
Shoot or Cut Bait – Catfish Charlie Series – Hardback

DECEMBER 2025
Thunder of the Mountain Man – Mountain Man Series – (Smoke)
Say It With Bullets – Lone Wulff Series*
Trigger Happy – Nathan Stark Series – Reissue

* Walmart Exclusive

2024 Release Schedule - Subject to Change

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JANUARY 2024
Killers Never Sleep – Buck Trammel Series
Preacher’s Bloody Rampage – First Mountain Man Series

FEBRUARY 2024
My Gun Shoots Bullets – MacCoole & Boone Series*
Montana – A Novel of Frontier America – New Series
Dreams of Eagles – Eagle Series – Reissue

MARCH 2024
Catfish Charlie – New Series
The Forty-Niners – New Series – Trade Paperback
Never Let Them See You Bleed – Tinhorn Series – Reissue

APRIL 2024
The Wicked and the Dead – Hack Long and His Outlaw Gang – New Series
The Jensen Dynasty, The Journey Begins (2 books in 1)
Guns of the Vigilantes – Reissue
Kill Me Tomorrow – Old Cowboys Never Die Series – Hardback

MAY 2024
The Man From Waco – New Series
The Back Forty – The Hammersmiths of West Texas – New Series*
The Oregon Trail – Go West Young Man Series – Trade Paperback
Colter’s Journey – Tim Colter Series – Reissue
The Angry Land – A Smoke Jensen Novel – Hardback

JUNE 2024
Not My Home – Thriller
Dry Road To Nowhere – The Frontier Overland Company – New Series
Hellfire Pass – New Series*
Beans, Bourbon & Blood – A Luke Jensen-Dewey McKenzie Western – Hardback

JULY 2024
The Whip Hand – Hunter Buchanon Series
The Angry Land – Smoke Jensen Series
A Lamb to the Slaughter – Tinhorn Series – Reissue
While The Town Slept – Tim Colter-Jeb Reno Series – Hardback

AUGUST 2024
The Morgan Men – Legends of the American Frontier
Beans, Bourbon, & Blood – Luke Jensen-Dewey McKenzie
Talons of Eagles – Eagle Series – Reissue

SEPTEMBER 2024
Some Die Young – The Man From Waco Series
Fort Buzzard – Preacher and MacCallister Series
On The Royle Range – Forever Texas Series – Trade Paperback
The Hanging Party – Texas Lightning Series – Hardback

OCTOBER 2024
While The Town Slept – Tim Coulter-Jeb Reno Series
Hard Winter – Montana Series.
A Lonely Place To Die – Hellfire Pass Series

NOVEMBER 2024
Edge of Nowhere – Onion Creek New Series
A Threat of Violence – The Hammersmiths Series*
The Last Wagon Train – New Series
Kill Me Tomorrow – Old Cowboys Never Die Series – Paperback
Big Sky Christmas – Christmas Series – Reissue as Trade Paperback*

DECEMBER
The Hanging Party – Texas Lightning New Series
Blood Bounty of the Mountain Man – Last Mtn Man Series
Bloody Sunday – Luke Jensen Series – Reissue

* Walmart Exclusive

2023 Release Schedule - (Titles & Release Dates Subject to Change)

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JANUARY 2023
Preacher’s Purge – The First Mountain Man Series
These Violent Years – MacCoole & Boone New Series*
Luke Jensen, Bounty Hunter – Luke Jensen Series – Reissue

FEBRUARY 2023
Fort Misery – New Series
The Fires of Hell – The Jackals Series
Nice Guys Finish Dead – Old Cowboys Series – Library HB

MARCH 2023
Snake Oil – Texas Moonshiners Series*
Forever Texas – Reissue in Mass Market Paperback
Dark Is The Night – Death and Texas Series – Reissue
Butch Cassidy, The Lost Years – Reissue – Hardback*

APRIL 2023
Save It For Sunday – Taylor Callahan, Circuit Rider Series
The Jensens of Colorado – Omnibus – 3 Books in 1
Stand Your Ground – Other Fiction – Reissue
Desolation Creek – Smoke Jensen Series – Hardback

MAY 2023
Devil’s Gulch – New Series
Backfire – The Fighting O’Neils Series*
Lone Star Legacy – Forever Texas Series – Trade Paperback

JUNE 2023
Desolation Creek – Smoke Jensen Series
This Man Must Die – Buck Trammel Series
Frank Morgan, The Last Gunfighter – (3 Books in 1) – Hardback*
Old Cowboys Never Die – Old Cowboys Series – Reissue

JULY 2023
Hostile Territory – Preacher & MacCallister Series
A Time For Killing – MacCoole & Boone Series*

AUGUST 2023
The Lonesome Gun – Perley Gates Series
The Bullet Stops Here – Luke Jensen Series
Bad Hombres – Slash & Pecos Series – Hardback
Shotgun Johnny – Reissue

SEPTEMBER 2023
A Month of Doomsdays – Brannigan’s Land Series
Eyes of Eagles – The Eagles Series – Reissue

OCTOBER 2023
Bad Hombres – Slash & Pecos Series
The Scavengers – Death and Texas Series – Reissue
Butch Cassidy: The Lost Years (PPB) – Reissue

NOVEMBER 2023
Shooting Iron – Devil’s Gulch Series
Nice Guys Finish Dead – Old Cowboys Series – Trade Paperback
Shado w Of A Deadman –S hotgun Johnny Series – Reissue

DECEMBER
Dark Night of the Mountain Man – Mountain Man Series
The Frontier Overland Company – New Series
Catfish Charlie – New Series – Hardback

* Proprietary Exclusive