Noir, Mystery, and Crime Fiction Set in Montana

This is not a complete list—yet.

Peter Bowen

Coyote Wind (1994)
Specimen Song ( 1995)
Wolf, No Wolf (1996)
Notches (1997)
Thunder Horse (1998)
Long Son (1999)
The Stick Game (2000)
Cruzatte and Maria (2001)
Ash Child (2002)
Badlands (2003)
The Tumbler (2004)
Stewball (2005)
Nails (2006)
Bitter Creek (2015)

C. J. Box

The Highway (2013)

James Lee Burke

Black Cherry Blues (1989)
BItterroot (2001)
In the Moon of Red Ponies (2004)
Swan Peak (2008)
Light of the World (2013)

Christine Carbo

Mortal Fall (2016)
The Weight of Night (2017)

Gary J. Cook

Blood Trail (2006)
A Murder of Wolves (2012)

James Crumley

The Mexican Tree Duck (1993)
The Right Madness (2005)
Dancing Bear (1983)
The Last Good Kiss (1978)
The Wrong Case (1975)

Claire Davis

Winter Range (2000)

Gwen Florio

Montana (2013)
Dakota (2014)

Dashiell Hammett

Red Harvest (1929)

Jim Harrison

Legends of the Fall (1994)

Steve Hockensmith

Holmes on the Range (2006)

John Galligan

The Clinch Knot (2008)

Christine Gentry

Carnosaur Crimes (2005)

Hartley Goodweather

DreadfulWater Shows Up (2003)

A. B. Guthrie, Jr.

These Thousand Hills (1956)

Jamie Harrison

Edge of the Crazies (1995)
Going Local (1996)
An Unfortunate Prairie Occurrence (1998)

Chuck Hogan

The Standoff (1995)

Richard Hugo

Death and the Good Life (1981)

Jon A. Jackson

Badger Games (2002)
Dead Folks (1996)
Deadman (1994)

Lee Jackson

Redemption (2007)

Dorothy M. Johnson

“The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance” (1949)
“The Hanging Tree” (1957)

Allen Morris Jones

A Bloom of Bones (2016)

Michael Koryta

Those Who Wish Me Dead (2014)

Norman Maclean

A River Runs through It (1976)

Keith McCafferty

Cold Hearted River (2017)
Buffalo Jump Blues (2016)
Crazy Mountain Kiss (2015)
Dead Man’s Fancy (2014)
Gray Ghost Murders (2013)
The Royal Wulff Murders (2012)

Michael McCulloch

Cold Lessons (2007)

Neil McMahon

Lone Creek (2007)
Dead Silver (2008)

K. C. McRae

Shotgun Moon (2013)

John Paxson

A Golden Trail of Murder (2001)

Dirk van Sickle

Montana Gothic (2000)

Sandra West Prowell

By Evil Means (2013)

Michael Punke

The Revenant (2002)

Robert Sims Reid

Big Sky Blues (1988)
Cupid (1990)
The Benediction (1992)
The Red Corvette (1992)
Wild Animals (1996)

Karen Salvalaggio

Bone Dust White (2014)
Burnt River (2015)
Walleye Junction (2016)
Silent Rain (2017)

Jenny Siler

Iced (2001)

Carsten Stroud

Lizardskin (1992)

Mark T. Sullivan

Triple Cross (2009)

William G. Tapply

The Spotted Cats (1991)

Jim Tenuto

Blood Atonement (2005)

James Welch

The Indian Lawyer (1990)