DEAN WESLEY SMITH

International bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith returns to his bestselling Cold Poker Gang Mystery series with another twisted mystery in Case Card.Retired detectives Debra Pickett and Sarge Carson return to the Cold Poker Gang Task Force after the pandemic to tackle the most famous of all Las Vegas cold cases: the disappearance of a college student fifty-one years before.Becky Williams entered her apartment building on November 24, 1971, and vanished without a trace. Now, Pickett and Sarge have one last chance to solve the case before a building remodel destroys whatever clues remain.But the twisted trail they follow in their investigation might prove the strangest and just downright Las Vegas-weirdest case they have ever solved."Dean Wesley Smith does for poker what James Patterson does for serial killers."Sheldon McArthur, former owner of Mysterious Books in Los Angeles

USA Today and New York Times bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith offers up eight thrilling puzzle mystery stories in his bestselling Cold Poker Gang Mystery series.If you love puzzle mysteries, complicated cold cases, and detectives tackling the most twisted crimes, take this opportunity to introduce yourself to this talented group of retired Las Vegas detectives playing poker and solving cold cases.These eight stories each feature a new cold-case mystery and offer a look at the hard-to-solve crimes found in all the Cold Poker Gang novels."Dean Wesley Smith does for poker what James Patterson does for serial killers."Sheldon McArthur, former owner of Mysterious Books in Los Angeles

Buckeys best friend loves to recite limericks and can travel in time. Not bad for an oak tree named Fred.But Fred must help Buckey and the love of his life find a way to live together. Not an easy problem considering Mary lives a hundred years in the past.But an oak tree that recites limericks knows tricks of time.Can true love be blocked by the simple passing of time?And can Fred come up with a limerick that fits the situation in time?

Over one hundred thousand words of original fiction from USA Today bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith.In this third volume, the full and complete science fiction novel Against Time, plus four original short stories, two ongoing serial novels, and many other features.Short StoriesA Storm from the RelicI Killed Adam ChaserThe Case of the Pleasant Hills MurderOut of Coffee ExperienceFull NovelAgainst TimeSerial FictionThe Life and Times of Buffalo Jimmy (Part 7)The Adventures of HawkNonfictionIntroduction: Happy Holidays and Moving OnThe First Tee PanicPoemsThe First Cat in SpaceThe Second Cat in SpaceThe Third Cat in Space

This 52nd issue of Smiths Monthly contains more than fifty-seven thousand words of original fiction from USA Today bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith. Including Ball of Confusion, the new novel in the Earth Protection league series, and five new short stories in some of Deans most popular series; Marble Grant, Bryant Street, Poker Boy, and the Seeders Universe among others.Also in this issue is Stories from July, part 4, with five classic short stories from Deans groundbreaking project for which he wrote a short story (or two) a day for one month, blogged about it, and designed a cover for each one. The adventure continues!

Retired Las Vegas Detectives Debra Pickett and Sarge Carson think the solution to a very old cold case came easy.Turns out, a little too easy.And the deeper they dig into the old case, the more they uncover a very ugly side of humanity. And bodies. More and more bodies.Another very, very twisted Cold Poker Gang mystery novel.

Date Night for ghosts.Ghost agents and former superheroes need date nights. Marble Grant and her beautiful partner, Sim, hit the bars just as any young and healthy couple, even though they died a while back.Sex occupies their minds, plus drinking. Maybe too much drinking.So can two drunk ghosts save the day? With Marble Grant, who knows.

An elderly woman makes couples disappear right off the Las Vegas Strip.Poker Boy and Patty must first stop her and then rescue the lost couples from some unknown place in time and space.A story of aging, of love, and sanity.And maybe just a little sex as well.

USA Today bestselling writer, Dean Wesley Smith takes us on a thrill-ride adventure in some of the worlds most exotic places.In search of his missing father, Danny Hawk must survive against all odds and a long way from home.In 1970, Egypt breeds danger for Hawk and his friends. Hawks only hope to find his father rests in staying alive and ahead of the dangerous men chasing him.Sometimes only a half-step ahead.

Sky Tate knows next to nothing about cars. She teleports everywhere.But now faced with a mystery about an expensive car, she must learn a little about cars. Just enough.The first Sky Tate story, "Center Drives" introduces the superhero detective. Sky gets much wilder in later stories. Trust us on that.

Bryant Street, a standard subdivision street, haunts us all. To escape Bryant Street often takes real courage.Meet Neil Prendell. He made a mistake. He lost his job but avoided telling his wife. Instead, he pretended to go to work while looking for another job.Pride? Fear? Stupidity? The reason no longer mattered. He paid the price.A price that only made sense in the twisted logic of Bryant Street.

USA Today bestselling author Dean Wesley Smith returns to the world of Dust and Kisses with a new novel.Paleontologist Callie Sheridan spent a few days deep in the Oregon Caves on a dig with three students from the University of Oregon. When they emerged, they found almost everyone in the world dead. Survival became her only thought.Mathematician and galactic explorer Vardis Fisher dropped into orbit over a planet where almost all of the human life had been recently killed for no obvious reason. Suddenly, hundreds of other ships, all human, appear in orbit and start working to save the planets remaining population.Together, Callie and Fisher work to discover the secrets of a galaxy that has been hidden in plain sight, even from the powerful humans who rescued millions. And in the process, they just might change everything.

Sage Green accidently finds in a satellite photo the ruins of an old log cabin and a stable in a high mountain valley in the Central Idaho wilderness. Nothing unusual except no entrance exists into that valley.Mike Hawthorne, on some of his many trips into the past, used to camp and prospect right below that valley without knowing it was there.With Mike Hawthorne, Sage Green must travel back to find out how to get into that valley, why that cabin and stable exist, and who built them.

Gambling universe superhero Poker Boy loves saving dogs, even though thats not part of his duty in the gambling universe. He sometimes thinks he saves more dogs than he does people. Now he and his team must use every skill they have to save not just one dog, but all dogs from a force that cant be stopped.

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. "Dean Wesley Smith draws a royal straight flush by making the hand he deals readers seem possible with this exhilarating political poker thriller"The Midwest Book Review on Dead Money

Sometimes Sky Tate gets to play the hardboiled detective, with the good-looking dame walking through the door. But Cherry Jones and her problem lived miles from the detective cliché.And Sky really wants to help her with a problem that seemed impossible to start.

Institute traveler, Sharon Kent, wants to keep a man who existed in the past alive. She likes him, and they had set a date for dinner before he was killed.But in timeline after timeline, she keeps going back to find out what happened to him. Finally, she discovers he died in a mine cave-in in every timeline. And thus always stood her up for their date.But this time, with the help of Duster Kendal, she hopes to rescue him.And maybe then he will make their date.

Poker Boy works as a superhero in the gambling side of the world. And he reports to Stan, the God of Poker.Very bothered, Stan comes to Poker Boy with a problem. Very personal and unusual.Another superhero working for Stan faces monster problems, and not the kind of problems that come from rescuing others. This other superhero needs to be rescued from himself.Sadly, we often all face our worst enemy every morning in the mirror, an enemy sometimes impossible to beat, even for a superhero.

Sheriff Blue West loves his pretend Sheriff job, tipping his hat to the tourists and reading all day. Fits him perfectly.But when Annie "Silver" Stevens, a card sharp from 1900, appears in the modern Cave Creek, Nevada, claiming to be the real Annie Stevens, Cave Creeks reputation for strange things happening strikes again.Both Annie and Blue find themselves in very strange worlds and times that only the craziness of Cave Creek can explain.The Twilight Zone needed a hometown. It found Cave Creek.

More than seventy-five thousand words of original fiction from USA Today bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith. Including Bottom Pair, the new Cold Poker Gang novel and five new short stories in some of Deans most popular series.This 49th volume of Smiths Monthly also includes Stories from July, part 1, with five classic short stories from Deans groundbreaking project: writing a short story a day for one month, blogging about it, and designing a cover for each one. Crazy but fun!