Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Luke Jensen, Bounty Hunter | 2012 | J.A. Johnstone | Buy |
| 2 | Dead Shot | 2013 | J.A. Johnstone | Buy |
| 3 | Bloody Sunday | 2014 | J.A. Johnstone | Buy |
| 4 | Bad Men Die | 2015 | J.A. Johnstone | Buy |
| 5 | Death Rides Alone | 2016 | J.A. Johnstone | Buy |
| 6 | Legion of Fire | 2018 | J.A. Johnstone | Buy |
| 7 | Burning Daylight | 2019 | J.A. Johnstone | Buy |
| 8 | Hired Guns | 2019 | J.A. Johnstone | Buy |
| 9 | Prairie Fire | 2022 | J.A. Johnstone | Buy |
| 10 | The Bullet Stops Here | 2023 | J.A. Johnstone | Buy |
Luke Jensen: Bounty Hunter adds another branch to the sprawling Jensen family tree. Luke is Smoke Jensen’s older brother, long thought dead after the Civil War. He survived, but instead of going home, he spent years drifting before settling into work as a bounty hunter. The first book, published in 2012, establishes Luke as a capable tracker and gunman with a complicated past.
The series ran for ten books through 2023, with entries like Dead Shot, Bloody Sunday, and later titles continuing Luke’s adventures. Each book sends him after a different fugitive, which keeps the settings and situations varied. Luke is a loner by nature, which gives the books a different feel from the Mountain Man series. Where Smoke has a family and a ranch to protect, Luke has a horse, a gun, and a list of men worth money dead or alive. The bounty-hunting premise is a natural fit for episodic Western storytelling.