Dean Smith: 353 books

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...

Stout, the owner of the Garden Lounge always thought he could control the time machine disguised as a jukebox by keeping it unplugged. Then one day the jukebox started up without power and a visitor from the future asked a very important favor. A favor that would not only save lives, but maybe everyone. Bestselling...

Carey went back into the dead city of Portland, Oregon four years after something killed just about everyone. She mostly wanted to see if anyone still lived. Instead, in the dead city Carey found a life and a future. “Shadow in the City” is based on the song lyrics of “Here in...

Superheroes in the gambling universe sometimes find themselves helping people that hate being helped. Poker Boy didn’t mind taking Bob’s money at the poker table because Bob sucked at poker and acted like a real jerk. But Bob needed to win money for a very special and personal reason. Bestselling...

When Buckey the Space Pirate decides to take a creative writing course, of course he turns for help to his best friend, Fred the talking oak tree. Fred knows the English language better than any human alive. But Fred is still an oak tree, and oak trees do have their quirks when it comes to...

Sometimes you must go back to find the future. Buckey the Space Pirate travels back in time with his friend Fred, the talking oak tree, to learn why Fred refuses to recite his new limerick, the last limerick in Fred’s first poetry book. Over a hundred years in the past, in a forest...

Poker Boy has saved the world a number of times, but never from an alien. With the help of his sidekick, Front Desk Girl and Leverne, Lady Luck herself, Poker Boy must do battle with an alien snake across the only battlefield Poker Boy knows: a poker table. The stakes are higher than in the...

9 Amazing Tales Of The Wild West Bundled For You! "Thunder Mountain" by Dean Wesley Smith "A Full Moon Over a Desolate Plain" by Thea Hutcheson "A Turning Point for Charlie Pilsen" by Harvey Stanbrough "Elf Saga, Book 3: Peacemaker" by Joseph Robert Lewis "Tales...

In the tradition of classic pulp crime fiction these talented writers are sharing their takes on strange and weird detectives in strange worlds: Paranormal detective, Amanda Dark, seeks answers at the haunted Moonrise Diner from the ghost of her dead uncle. Dean Wesley Smith asks the...

When men start getting run over by slow-moving train cars in a gold rush town in the mountains of Idaho, Marshal Duster Kendal must solve the murders. But there might not be a motive besides the fact that Duster Kendal lives. Duster knows exactly what to do about that. And he needs to do it fast before...

From fairy tales fractured into unrecognizability to Russian mobsters hanging out with zombies, from New World slavery to modern Alaskan cruise ships, the stories in Fantasy Adrift sail across the genre. Two writers make their fiction debuts next to bestsellers Steve Perry and Dean Wesley Smith to...

A mystery story about a grown man, an attorney, alone on Christmas Eve, who can’t allow himself to believe in Santa Claus. But someone keeps eating the cookies. Every year. Just as it happened in his childhood. Maybe Santa Claus really does exist. Or maybe, just maybe, this...

Shoeless Joe Jackson made a mistake and was banned from baseball for life. Sometimes, in the Garden Lounge, the special jukebox lets a customer go back in time to a mistake and fix it. Shoeless Joe never had a chance to let the jukebox help him fix his mistake, but instead it allowed Shoeless Joe...

In this latest volume of Fiction River, editor Dean Wesley Smith pulls together an eclectic but cohesive group of stories filled with difficult decisions. From a man who must question the line between justice and vengeance to a teenage fixer fighting hypocrisy to a post-apocalyptic survivor’s mission...