No. 123: Rustler

Rustler by Linda Lael Miller

This is the third (I think) book in the Stone Creek series. It was pretty good, plot wise, but there were some lines that made me either laugh out loud (in shock) or say something (like holy cow) and blush. So, that was interesting. In this series all the characters have something in their past that they are trying to hide - criminal background, illegitimate child etc. So a lot of the book is each character trying to hide their secrets or else turn their lives around, which is fine, but I think I prefer a little more action. The one part I really liked is where Wyatt (clearly this is set in the West, post-civil war) was the deputy sheriff and he convinced a bunch of bad guys to turn over their guns because of a town ordinance (that he just made up) and locked up all the guns in the jail. Then later, when they wanted their guns back they tried to break into the jail using dynamite but they blew up the jail and their guns. That was pretty funny. Also when Wyatt sent a telegraph to his brother, the real sheriff, he said something like. "Jailhouse blew up. Nothing left of it. Which is also pretty funny.