Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ride Hard For Rayado | 2001 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 2 | Willow Lane | 2002 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 3 | U.S. Marshal Shorty Thompson | 2003 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 4 | Children of the West | 2005 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 5 | The Last Gun In Town | 2008 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 6 | The Long Chase For Justice | 2009 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 7 | Janice McCord | 2010 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 8 | Saddle Mountain | 2013 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 9 | Clayton New Mexico | 2020 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 10 | If Hell Ain’t Hot Enough | 2020 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 11 | Two Sister’s Revenge: Maggie and Helen Stillson | 2020 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 12 | Ms. Deborah Has Been Kidnapped | 2020 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 13 | A Kidnapped Education | 2020 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 14 | Mister I’ll See You Dead | 2020 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 15 | You Get Five Years | 2020 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 16 | Evil With A Gun | 2020 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 17 | Marshal Shorty Turns In His Badge | 2020 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 18 | A Winter Too Cold For Gold | 2020 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 19 | Dead Is All You’ll Get | 2020 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 20 | Cora Laredo - One Mad Woman | 2020 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 21 | Billie & Bonnie Coleman - Women To Deal With | 2020 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 22 | Blood, Sweat and Gold | 2020 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 23 | From Texas to Montana | 2020 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 24 | You Think I Shot Him | 2020 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 25 | Please Don’t Leave Me | 2020 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 26 | Can Loneliness Last Forever | 2020 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 27 | The Fifth Man | 2020 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 28 | Whiskers McPherson & Gabriel O’Grady | 2020 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 29 | Marshal Shorty Please Help Us | 2021 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 30 | Gold And Silver: A Robber’s Paradise | 2021 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 31 | Rough Trip Back to Boise | 2021 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 32 | Almost The Fastest Gun | 2021 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 33 | Shorty Thompson: U.S. Marshal | 2022 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 34 | Malpais | 2022 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 35 | Silver of the Black Range | 2022 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 36 | Trouble In Tascosa | 2022 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 37 | One Good Deed Before I Die | 2022 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 38 | A Mother’s Wrath | 2022 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 39 | White Oaks: A Town With No Law | 2022 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 40 | Wanted: Kill Shorty Thompson: Five Thousand Dollars | 2022 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 41 | Brothers of the West | 2022 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 42 | Young Jessie Owens | 2022 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 43 | When Preaching Is Hell | 2022 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 44 | Women In The West Did Survive | 2022 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 45 | Montrose Colorado | 2022 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 46 | Elijah ‘Longhorn’ Thompson | 2022 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 47 | Wells Fargo Is Easy To Rob | 2022 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 48 | I’ll See You Both Dead | 2022 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 49 | The Wrong Man Again | 2022 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 50 | The Young Trackers | 2022 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 51 | This Mountain Is Mine | 2022 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 52 | Grandpa and The Kid | 2022 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 53 | The Dead Trail | 2022 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 54 | Molly Muldoon Kills Her First Man | 2022 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 55 | A Bit Of Crooked Law | 2022 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 56 | Caught One Crooked Banker | 2022 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 57 | Cimarron River: Rustlers Hideout | 2022 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 58 | Keith Aurzada: Lawyer Gunfighter | 2022 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 59 | The Last Man | 2022 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 60 | A Bad Decision | 2022 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 61 | Six Years Wait For A Showdown | 2022 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 62 | She’s Alive, Not For Long | 2022 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 63 | Mister You Was Shot In The Head | 2022 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 64 | I Sentence You To Twenty Years | 2022 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 65 | We’re Going To Die Ain’t We Danny | 2022 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 66 | You Shot Me Once, Never Again! | 2022 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 67 | One Sweet Kiss Can Kill You | 2022 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 68 | Animas City - A Town to Forget | 2022 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 69 | Don’t Ever Make Old Men Mad | 2022 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 70 | Kill Every Witness | 2022 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 71 | Deputy U.S. Marshal Betty McCabe | 2022 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 72 | U.S. Marshal Shorty Thompson Meets U.S. Marshal Hopper Scranton | 2022 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 73 | The Long Hunt | 2022 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 74 | Before I Die | 2022 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 75 | Killing Of Outlaws | 2022 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 76 | The Martin Boys | 2022 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 77 | Cowboy Cody Strickland | 2022 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 78 | Janice McCord Rides Again | 2022 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 79 | James P. Retzer: Dentist: New Mexico, Territory | 2022 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 80 | Doug Brown And Shelly Hampton | 2022 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 81 | David Graham - The New Gun | 2022 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 82 | Milo Tillie | 2022 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 83 | The Road To Chama | 2022 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 84 | William Colby U.S. Marshal Retired | 2022 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 85 | Young Outlaws | 2022 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 86 | Hang Shorty in Leadville, Colorado | 2022 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 87 | Love Is One Shadow Away | 2022 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 88 | Little Toby Smith | 2022 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 89 | Killers and Outlaws | 2022 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 90 | Revenge of the Bullet | 2022 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 91 | Black Pearls, Blue Diamonds And Bullets | 2022 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 92 | A Very Long Time Before Cowboys | 2022 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 93 | The Devil Will Get You | 2022 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 94 | Long Trail To Nowhere | 2022 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 95 | It Takes More Than Bullets | 2022 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 96 | Keep The Gold - We Keep Our Ranch | 2022 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 97 | When Winter Winds Blow | 2022 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 98 | You Ain’t Worth Killin’ | 2022 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 99 | Take Aim - Shoot Straight | 2022 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 100 | I’ll Hunt You Down | 2022 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 101 | One Crooked Town | 2022 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 102 | Yer in the Wrong Town Mister | 2022 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 103 | In the Middle of the Colfax County War | 2022 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 104 | The Wherry Gang Saves Christmas | 2022 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 105 | Tillie Jane From Hillsboro | 2022 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 106 | Death is All That’s Left | 2022 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 107 | Pure Raw Justice | 2022 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 108 | No Justice for the Innocent | 2022 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 109 | Deputy Sheriff John Dunow | 2022 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 110 | Blood Over The Horizon | 2022 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 111 | I Know Who Back Shot Mister Fred | 2022 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 112 | The Widow Martha Camden | 2022 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 113 | A Friend Was Robbed And Murdered: Western Adventure | 2022 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 114 | A Dead Man’s Trail | 2022 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 115 | Thunder On The Mountain | 2022 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 116 | The Name Is Savage… Dorothy Savage | 2022 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 117 | The Day Lottie McDade Was Shot | 2023 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 118 | White Oaks - A Town With No Law | 2023 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 119 | Ma’am I’ll Kill You As Quick As I Did Him | 2023 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 120 | The Fastest Horse | 2023 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 121 | My Land Stay Off Or Die | 2023 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 122 | Thirty Miles From Nowhere | 2023 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 123 | The Life Of Sally Ward | 2023 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 124 | Liars and Crooks | 2023 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 125 | A Long Train Ride Home | 2023 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 126 | Too Young To Kill | 2023 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 127 | Kill That Senator | 2023 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 128 | Sent To England | 2023 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 129 | When Time Ran Out | 2024 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 130 | When Hell Rode Into Town | 2024 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 131 | He’ll Hang Before Sundown | 2024 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 132 | Out Of Town By Sundown | 2024 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 133 | That’s No Reason To Die | 2024 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 134 | Wrong Family To Mess With | 2024 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 135 | You Won’t Die Tonight | 2024 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 136 | Private Buck Lewis | 2024 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 137 | When Things Go Wrong | 2024 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 138 | One Bullet Will Kill | 2024 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 139 | For That You Will Die | 2024 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 140 | He Has To Be Dead | 2024 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 141 | Now You Will All Die | 2025 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 142 | The West Never Runs Out Of Crooks | 2025 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 143 | The Day I Get Rich | 2025 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 144 | Crooks Die Fastest | 2025 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 145 | This Crook Ain’t Worth Killing | 2025 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 146 | It’s Time We Rob The Bank | 2025 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 147 | Saddle Up Time To Ride | 2025 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 148 | Ambush At Red Rock Station | 2025 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 149 | The Sheriff Shot Her | 2025 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 150 | When All Hell Broke Loose | 2025 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 151 | Believe It! Shorty Thompson Turned Bad | 2025 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
| 152 | She’s Worth A Big Ransom | 2026 | Paul L. Thompson | Buy |
U.S. Marshal Shorty Thompson is the series that put Paul L. Thompson on the map. Running since 2001 with over 150 entries, it follows the adventures of a federal lawman who keeps the peace across the American West. Each book is a standalone story, so readers can jump in anywhere without feeling lost.
Thompson’s output on this series accelerated dramatically from 2020 onward, with dozens of new entries each year. The books are short, punchy Western tales full of shootouts, pursuits, and frontier justice. Fans of classic Western TV shows and Louis L’Amour-style paperbacks will feel right at home here.