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Frank Zafiro

Frank served in the U.S. Army from 1986-91 in Military Intelligence as a Czechoslovak linguist. In 1993, he became a police officer. Since then, he has worked as a patrol officer, corporal, detective, sergeant, lieutenant and captain. As of 2012, he is a major.

Frank began writing seriously at about thirteen. He started out with short stories (some very short) and poetry. His first payment for a short story came in 1990, when Bills Son was published in Wide Open Magazine. In 1995, he started the first draft of Under A Raging Moon, which would become the first book in the River City series of crime fiction.

Genres: Mystery

Series

River City Crime
   1. Under a Raging Moon (2006)
   2. Heroes Often Fail (2007)
   3. Beneath a Weeping Sky (2010)
   4. And Every Man Has To Die (2011)
   5. The Menace of the Years (2018)
   6. Place of Wrath and Tears (2020)

River City Short Stories
   1. Dead Even (2010)
   2. No Good Deed (2010)
   3. The Cleaner (2010)

Stefan Kopriva Mystery
   1. Waist Deep (2011)
   2. Lovely, Dark, and Deep (2012)
   3. Friend of the Departed (2015)

Ania Trilogy (with Jim Wilsky)
   1. Blood On Blood (2012)
   2. Queen of Diamonds (2013)
   3. Closing the Circle (2014)
   Harbinger (2018)

SpoCompton Crime
1. At Their Own Game (2014)
2. In the Cut (2020)

Bricks and Cam (with Eric Beetner)
   1. The Backlist (2015)
   2. The Short List (2016)
   3. The Getaway List (2018)

Charlie-316 (with Colin Conway)
   1. Charlie-316 (2019)
   2. Never the Crime (2020)
   3. Badge Heavy (2020)

Novels

   The Last Horseman (2011)
   Some Degree of Murder (2012) (with Colin Conway)
   At This Point in My Life (2012)
   Chisolm's Debt (2013)
   The Trade Off (2014) (with Bonnie R Paulson)
   The Last Collar (2017) (with Lawrence Kelter)
   Fallen City (2017) (with Lawrence Kelter)
   An Unlikely Phoenix (2018)

Omnibus

The Crime Cafe 9 Book Set (2016) (with Austin Camacho, Donna Fletcher Crow, W D Gagliani, M Ruth Myers, Dale T Phillips, Benjamin Sobieck, Jim Winter and Kenneth Wishnia (K j a Wishnia))

Collections

Good Shepherd (2014)

Novellas

The Bastard Mummy (2010)
In the Shadow of El Paso (2012)

Series contributed to

Grifter's Song
   1. The Concrete Smile (2019)
   12. Down Comes the Night (2020)
   A Grifter's Song Vol. 1 (2019) (with Lawrence Kelter and J D Rhoades)
   A Grifter's Song Vol. 2 (2019)
   A Grifter's Song Vol. 3 (2020) (with Asa Maria Bradley, Eryk Pruitt and Holly West)
   A Grifter's Song Vol. 4 (2020) (with Eric Beetner and Scott Eubanks)

Guns +Tacos
3. A Gyro and a Glock (2019)

Frank Zafiro recommends

Closing Time (2020)
(Stonechild and Rouleau Mystery, book 7)
Brenda Chapman
"A slow burn mystery that expertly weaves together several viewpoints in a way that will thoroughly engage your mind as you read."

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