USA Today bestselling author Dean Wesley Smith takes you into the world of his acclaimed novel Dead Money with a new series about 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 succeed at closing old cases.Lott’s very first homicide … 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.
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Cold Call
Calling Dead
Bad Beat
Dead Hand
Freezeout
Ace High
Burn Card
“Dean Wesley Smith does for poker what James Patterson does for serial killers.”
—Sheldon McArthur, former owner of Mysterious Books in Los Angeles
“[An] exhilarating political poker thriller.”
—Genre Go Round Reviews on Dead Money
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Good read well done
Very interesting character lay out. Good beach read.
I have been enjoying this series. It is scary to think things like this could happen. I wish there was a little more follow up at the end of the book.
Wish it had been longer
Not as predictable as some si it had my interest. Liked his way of stating things
Love this series of solving cold cases in Las Vegas.
Really enjoyed this book and storyline. A must read.
Great book. Surprises with each new chapter. The ending was not really satisfactory, but couldn’t end any other way. I believe the next book in this series will remedy this. I would like to read a book, if it exists, on Annie and Doc’s getting together.
Suspense, Good reading.
Good characters, mostly realistic until you get to the poker players who own a private plane and homes in numerous locations. Also love story is kind of shoved down your throat with every interaction between the two principles. I’d still read the next one in the series though.
a very good book, holds your interest from start to finish !!
Fast pace and easy to read.
I enjoyed it and look forward to reading more in the series
Some people REALLY are just plain nuts, like the murder victim in this novel.
Excellent read. Didn’t want to put it down.
This was a waste of time and I’m sorry that I bothered. The mystery was fetched from afar and made no real sense. The characters were barely one-sided. When describing someone as humorous, the author should throw in some humor. It only deserves 1 star at best.
This book provides characters with whom you can relate. Fun read!
Great story, loved the characters.
This is a short book and makes for a quick read. The primary characters, retired detectives, are likeable and the story is decent. We learn a lot about Rogers in particular since the retired detectives take on the cold case of her murdered husband. What kept me from a 5 star rating on the book was the constant self doubt of both Rogers and Lott as they entered a more romantic relationship. Good grief. They are both mature adults and yes, they are hurting (Rogers because she never really knew the man she married before he was murdered and Lott because his wife of many years died 3 years earlier) but they aren’t teenagers. The budding romance between the two could easily have been written by a teenager, though, and I know the author is no young man himself since I read his Star Trek books decades ago. Anyway, it’s a good start to the series and I’ll probably give at least one more book in the series a try. The story is complete in this book, no cliffhangers.
“Well I’ll be go to Hell” seems an odd turn of phrase.