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Cold Poker Gang

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Kill Game (novel)
Cold Call (novel)
Calling Dead (novel)
Bad Beat (novel)
Dead Hand (novel coming soon)

All novels stand alone and can be read without reading the earlier novels.

Kill Game

Kill Game ebook cover rebrandA Cold Poker Gang Mystery

USA Today bestselling author Dean Wesley Smith takes you into the world of his acclaimed novel Dead Money with a brand new series focused around a group of retired Las Vegas Police detectives playing poker and solving cold cases.

Retired Detective Bayard Lott hosts the weekly poker games at his home. The group calls themselves the Cold Poker Gang. And they have proven very successful in closing old cases.

Lott’s very first homicide case as a brand-new detective had gone cold more than twenty years earlier. But retired Reno detective Julia Rogers, new to the Cold Poker Gang, suggests they look at that case again for personal reasons.

From that simple suggestion spins one of the strangest and most complicated murder mystery puzzles the gang has ever seen.

Available in:
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Trade paperback, $14.99
ISBN 978-1561466054
audiobook

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Cold Call

Cold Call ebook cover rebrand

A Cold Poker Gang Mystery

USA Today bestselling author Dean Wesley Smith returns with a new novel in his popular series about a group of retired Las Vegas Police detectives playing poker and solving cold cases.

When retired detective Bayard Lott offers to help retired detective Julia Rogers search for her lost friend near a remote Idaho lake, they find clues that might lead them directly to the most dangerous serial killer in Las Vegas history.

Set in the rugged mountains of Idaho, this twisted mystery pits the Cold Poker Gang against a master criminal.

Available in:
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Trade paperback, $14.99
ISBN 978-1561466290
audiobook

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and others

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Calling Dead

Calling Dead ebook cover rebrandA Cold Poker Gang Mystery

The retired Las Vegas detectives in the Cold Poker Gang work hard to solve cold cases. Sometimes, those cases bring back personal nightmares.

Deciding to tackle one of the coldest cold cases in the files, retired detectives Lott, Rogers, and Andor uncover far more than simple murder, and possibly the worst serial killer ever.

A twisted mystery that will keep you reading to the last page.

Available in:
ebook, $5.99
Trade paperback, $14.99
ISBN 978-1-56146-641-2

Powells
Amazon
Kobo
iBooks
and others

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Bad Beat

Bad Beat ebook cover

A Cold Poker Gang Mystery

The Cold Poker Gang consists of a group of retired Las Vegas Police detectives getting together once a week to play cards and work to solve cold cases.

Retired Detectives Bayard Lott and Julia Rogers stand at an unmarked grave in the desert, about ready to close a thirty-year-old cold case of a missing woman.

But what appears from that grave keeps their case very much open, and shines a light on many other cold cases.

Another twisted mystery that only the Cold Poker Gang can solve.

Available in:
ebook, $5.99
Trade paperback, $14.99
ISBN 978-1561466481

Powell’s
Amazon
Kobo
and others

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Coming in the summer of 2016

Dead Hand

Dead Hand ebook cover

A Cold Poker Gang Mystery

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