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    Kill Game: A Cold Poker Gang Mystery
    Kill Game: A Cold Poker Gang Mystery
    Kill Game: A Cold Poker Gang Mystery
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    Kill Game: A Cold Poker Gang Mystery

    By Dean Wesley Smith

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    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 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.

    Read the whole riveting series!
    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

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWMG Publishing
    Release dateMay 9, 2014
    ISBN9781310288647
    Kill Game: A Cold Poker Gang Mystery
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    Dean Wesley Smith

    Considered one of the most prolific writers working in modern fiction, USA TODAY bestselling writer, Dean Wesley Smith published far over a hundred novels in forty years, and hundreds of short stories across many genres. He currently produces novels in four major series, including the time travel Thunder Mountain novels set in the old west, the galaxy-spanning Seeders Universe series, the urban fantasy Ghost of a Chance series, and the superhero series staring Poker Boy. During his career he also wrote a couple dozen Star Trek novels, the only two original Men in Black novels, Spider-Man and X-Men novels, plus novels set in gaming and television worlds.

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