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Frank Zafiro

River City is full of detectives and mobsters, missing mummies and even a shootout with Gypsies... 

Dead Even features fifteen stories highlighting major and minor characters from the River City series, including series favorite Katie MacLeod, Detectives Finch and Elias, hard-luck Officer Paul Hiero, and transplanted gangster, Dominic Bracco.

The good, the bad, and the in-between of River City come together in this fast-paced collection of theft, mystery, murder and detection, where the heroes of River City will keep fighting until the scales of justice are once again… Dead Even.

Craig Jessen

David Temple

Sharon Bond

Dan And

Code 4 Press

River City

Dead Even

Colin Conway

A young woman has been murdered in River City. Police Detective John Tower is assigned to the case but there are few clues to go on. As he digs into the case, he's soon picking up hints that this murder may not be the killer's first ... or his last.

Virgil Kelly lives in the shadowy world of the criminal underground. He's just arrived in River City with a single-minded mission: find his daughter’s killer and bury him. 

In his search for a murderer, Tower uses his experience and training along with all the expertise of modern forensics. 

In the hunt for his prey, Kelley uses intimidation and violence, tools which he wields with precision and anger.

Virgil Kelley and John Tower are on a collision course. Somebody is going to die.

River City will never be the same.

◆ This novel is set in River City in 2005 and is part of the RC world

◆ Features a dual first-person narrative

◆ From the authors of the explosive Charlie-316 series!

Conor Hall

Some Degree of Murder

These are the characters you'll meet in No Good Deed...

★An ex-cop looking for redemption.

★An American man and an Irish lass interwined in love and violence.

★A cop with a conscience that he doesn't always listen to.

★A retired cop looking to repair a broken relationship with his drug-addicted son.

★A Yankee cop in the West Texas.

Explore the tangled lives of these men and women in fourteen short tales set in River City!

No Good Deed

After two tours in Vietnam and 25 years as a police officer, Thomas Chisolm is looking forward to a quiet retirement. That hope is quickly shattered when Mai, a ghost from his past, finds him and demands justice for the horrors she suffered during the Vietnam War…horrors Chisolm couldn’t save her from.

Now Chisolm must find the man responsible and bring him to justice to repay an old debt and in the hopes of putting his own demons to rest…once and for all.

Chisolm’s Debt features one of the most iconic characters in the River City series. Follow Chisolm on his search as he explores the nature of moral debt, war, forgiveness, and guilt on his way to an explosive ending.

James Conlan

Chisolm's Debt

This River City collection features stories about:

*A frustrated crime scene cleaner

*An off duty cop in a jam

* A patrol officer who believes in a strange fate

*A holier-than-thou Internal Affairs whose world gets turned upside down

Plus those that are criminally insane, surrounded by sadness or just trying to get by in a tough world. These are the many and varied characters of River City, brought to life in 17 short stories that fill in gaps and moments within the River City series that the novels don't explore.

Kristi Scalise

Frank Scalise

The Cleaner

Detective Katie MacLeod must contend with secrets from the past.
2010. River City, Washington. Detective Katie MacLeod is already working a pair of burglaries involving a suspect who cuts window screens to enter homes and steals money and drugs from elderly victims. Then she gets handed a cold missing persons case that comes with political pressure.

Katie must balance finding a dangerous burglar with discovering the fate of a woman who disappeared five years ago. As she digs into both cases, she finds frustration in one and a slew of secrets in the other.

How far will someone go to keep their secrets? Detective Katie MacLeod is about to find out.

Dave Mather

All the Forgotten Yesterdays

An undercover cop and a vigilante uncle are pitted against the human trafficking industry in River City.
Detective “Gus” Dow works deep undercover in the sex slave industry as a woman who buys and sells other young women. She's committed to her mission to bring the traffickers to justice but how long will that take? How much misery can she watch and still walk the line between duty and human decency?

“Bull” Porter blurs those lines when he finds out his niece is kidnapped. Rather than hunting in the wilds, he stalks his prey on the dirty streets of River City's underbelly where the hunted can turn the tables in an instant. How far will Bull go to save his niece? What lines will he cross?

When Gus and Bull collide in their battle to rescue the latest victims, the stakes escalate to include not only freedom and family, but also careers and life itself, hanging in the balance. Everything has a trade off and both Gus and Bull must decide what’s worth losing to save what's worth saving... if they can.

Ellie Gossage

The Trade Off

SUGAR GOT LOW contains a tale of grifters, a prequel story to the well-regarded Ania series, several trips back to River City and one to La Sombra, Texas. Enjoy a Walter Mitty homage set in San Francisco and a deadly day in Roman Britain, the heartbreaking story of a junkie and the suspenseful one of a murderer in a black car. And at the end of it all, you’ll experience the dark but inspiring title story of perseverance that was only made possible because of a misunderstood lyric.

Four-time Derringer finalist Frank Zafiro weaves a lucky thirteen tales drawn from throughout his career with one thing in common – characters you may love or hate, but will certainly feel.

River City - The book series

River City - The book series

River City books in order

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