Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Appaloosa | 2005 | Robert B. Parker | Buy |
| 2 | Resolution | 2008 | Robert B. Parker | Buy |
| 3 | Brimstone | 2009 | Robert B. Parker | Buy |
| 4 | Blue-Eyed Devil | 2010 | Robert B. Parker | Buy |
| 5 | Ironhorse | 2013 | Robert B. Parker | Buy |
| 6 | Bull River | 2014 | Robert B. Parker | Buy |
| 7 | The Bridge | 2014 | Robert B. Parker | Buy |
| 8 | Blackjack | 2016 | Robert B. Parker | Buy |
| 9 | Revelation | 2017 | Robert B. Parker | Buy |
| 10 | Buckskin | 2019 | Robert B. Parker | Buy |
| 11 | Opium Rose | 2027 | Robert B. Parker | Buy |
The Virgil Cole & Everett Hitch series brought Robert B. Parker into Western fiction. Appaloosa (2005) introduced two itinerant lawmen who hire out their services to towns that need help. The novel was adapted into a 2008 film starring Ed Harris and Viggo Mortensen. Parker wrote four books in the series before his death.
Robert Knott has continued the series since 2013, bringing the total to 11 books. The Westerns share Parker’s lean prose style and his interest in male friendship. Each book follows Cole and Hitch into a new town with new problems, maintaining a episodic structure familiar from Parker’s detective fiction.