The Shadow Town (An Evan Ryder Weird Western)
by J. W. Bradley
Evan Ryder, born into privilege, has spent years using his uncanny gift of observation and deduction to make a name for himself in the ranks of the Pinkerton Detective Agency. Still with a love of expensive suits but on the cusp of emerging from his family’s shadow, and after a life and death battle with the supernatural on the haunted peaks of Little Mountain, Ryder returned with an unexpected prize: a new member of the family. The agents of a shadowy cabal known by the acronym W.E.r.d. have dogged the intrepid detective for six years, seemingly after his young ward Nina Ryder, looking to use her unique abilities for their own ends. But after a long overdue standoff, Ryder discovers that he may actually be the target of the group’s latest recruitment attempts. It seems a whole town in the Colorado badlands has gone bad and Evan Ryder is their choice to find out why…