Forty Feet West: The Boundary Man, Book 1 - Emmett Laramie

Category: Adults, Mystery, Thriller
Language: English
Keywords: The Boundary Man Western

Written by Emmett Laramie
Read by Ernesto Muñoz
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 128 Kbps
Unabridged

Forty Feet West is the first book in the Boundary Man Series — quiet historical thrillers set in the American territorial West.

Ward Colton is a land commissioner who investigates survey fraud: boundary lines adjusted by fractions of a chain, deeds corrected in ways that redirect water rights and strip productive farmland from settlers who trusted the record.

The prose is measured, deliberate, and character-driven, with long investigative passages, period dialogue, and a methodical protagonist who works by reading documents and asking the right questions in the right order.

The tone is calm and serious — no action sequences, no heightened dramatic climaxes, no comedy. Think P.I. novel crossed with quiet procedural, set in the 1880s American Southwest.