Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | My Brother’s Keeper | 2025 | Robert Peecher | Buy |
| 2 | The Curse of the Law | 2025 | Robert Peecher | Buy |
| 3 | The Old Gun and the Kid | 2025 | Robert Peecher | Buy |
| 4 | No Law But the Rope | 2025 | Robert Peecher | Buy |
The Hangman’s Ledger series follows Elijah Creed, a traveling executioner who rides into frontier towns to carry out the law’s final sentence. Each book sends Creed to a different corner of New Mexico Territory, where the job is never as simple as tying a knot. In My Brother’s Keeper, he rides into Rociada and crosses paths with men chasing the Hodge brothers. The Curse of the Law puts a preacher and his family in danger when an outlaw gang tries to free four condemned prisoners.
All four books came out in 2025, and each works on its own while building on the same central character. Creed is not a hero in any traditional sense; he is a man who does a grim job and keeps a record of it. The series gets its tension from the gap between the law as written and justice as lived, with Creed stuck in the middle. The Old Gun and the Kid and No Law But the Rope round out the series with stories of crooked power, uneasy alliances, and debts that come due at the end of a rope.