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Award-winning author J.R. Sanders is a native Midwesterner and longtime denizen of the L.A. suburbs.

His nonfiction articles appear in such periodicals as Law & Order and Wild West magazines. His books include Some Gave All, which gives true accounts of forgotten Old West lawmen killed in the line of duty.

J.R.’s first Nate Ross novel, Stardust Trail - a detective story set among the B-Western film productions of 1930s Hollywood - was a 2021 Spur Award Finalist (Best Western Historical Novel) and Silver Falchion Finalist (Best Investigator). His second Nate Ross novel, Dead-Bang Fall, won the 2023 Shamus Award (Best Original PI Paperback). The third novel, Bring the Night, was a 2024 Shamus Award Finalist (Best Original PI Paperback).

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J.R. Sanders For Stardust Trail: I wanted to write a traditional detective novel but give it a twist. One day I was listening to the music of Dave Stamey, one of t…moreFor Stardust Trail: I wanted to write a traditional detective novel but give it a twist. One day I was listening to the music of Dave Stamey, one of the best Western singers/songwriters out there today. In the liner notes for one of his CDs he mentions the Gower Gulch cowboys of old Hollywood, very much a thing in the 1930s. That got me to thinking about setting my fictional private eye story in the world of those B-Western bit players, many of whom had been actual working cowboys and rodeo riders. A song called Cowboy Moon on that same CD has a particularly B-Western sound, sort of Dave’s tribute to those Gene Autry/Roy Rogers singing cowboy pictures. I liked it so much I used the title for a song the Cady sisters perform in Stardust Trail’s eponymous Republic film. Sort of my tribute to Dave’s tribute.(less)
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Stardust Trail (Nate Ross #1)

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A Killing Way (Nate Ross #4)

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Some Gave All

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Bring the Night (Nate Ross #3)

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Video Trailer – DEAD-BANG FALL

The new trailer for my latest Nate Ross novel, Dead-Bang Fall, is now up on my YouTube channel here. Be sure to check it out – and while you’re there, don’t forget to subscribe!
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