Dean Wesley Smith

Picket and Sarge, two recently retired Las Vegas Detectives, volunteer their time for the Cold Poker Gang task force that solves cold cases. Plus, ...

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” ...

On Bryant Street, anything seemed possible. Even the magic of a 1966 AMC Rambler Classic car.Who knew a Rambler held magic?But just not the kind of...

Paul Tegner’s plan seems simple. Murder his wife, Helen, and bury her in the backyard under the patio. Nothing to it.But Paul forgot what street he...

Rose Brackhahn just lost her dear husband, but somehow managed to do the best she could in her wonderful home on Bryant Street.Then the world decid...

On Bryant Street, really strange things happen. Usually they exist with a fantasy twist or a Twilight Zone feel.But every so often other things hap...

Marble Grant works as a Ghost Agent. She and her partner Sims crawl into people’s minds and get into all their hidden secrets and fears and desires...

Marble Grant and Sims work as two ghost agents in the Poker Boy universe. They crawl into people’s heads and try to help them. Working alone, late...

Ghosts Marble and Sims, with their new roommate, accounting superhero Canyon Stevens, must face a problem worse than death:A perfect cup of coffee....

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 y...

Marble Grant and her partner Sim stumble on one of the darkest secrets of human nature.Can two former superheroes now turned brand new, but very de...

If The Twilight Zone exited in a subdivision… Bryant Street, where things just never seem right, never work right, never exist as expected. I crea...

Bradford Borne loved rainy, April nights. He loved to move the body of his dead wife on rainy April nights every year. He loved how the rain hid h...

The theory goes that if cats find love and encourage romance, especially with humans, then cats end up with homes. But does it really work that wa...

Cats and art mix in odd ways, at odd times. Scratch the surface on just about any well-known author and you will find a cat, or more likely, many ...

Cats move around. In fact, a cat’s very nature requires them to explore, to move from place to place. Even if their realm lies indoors, they still...

This 66th issue of Smith’s Monthly contains more than seventy thousand words of fiction from USA Today bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith, includ...

Over sixty thousand words of original fiction from USA Today bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith. In this twenty-eighth monthly volume the full no...

Sandy Goodson in 2002 vanished without a trace. Seventeen years later, retired detectives Isadora Fawn and Hugh Halligan team up, working for the C...

More than two hundred couples get married in Las Vegas every day. And some people just go missing right before their planned wedding. Some show up ...

Turns out retired Las Vegas Detectives Benson Cavanaugh and Bonnie State enjoy working together, even after years of working alone. And on their se...

Retired Las Vegas Detectives Benson Cavanaugh and Bonnie State always worked alone before retiring. But joining the Cold Poker Gang task force push...

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...

1991. The famous Las Vegas hotel The Landmark scheduled for destruction. A girl's body found in one of the old rooms. Impossible to even tell her i...