Frank Zafiro

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  • Bibliography:
    44 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    April 2010
  • Latest Book:
    October 2024
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Full Series List in Order

River City Crime

1 - Under a Raging Moon (Jan-2011)
2 - Heroes Often Fail (Jan-2011)
3 - Beneath a Weeping Sky (Apr-2010)
4 - And Every Man Has To Die (May-2011)
4.5 - Some Degree of Murder (Apr-2012)
5 - The Menace of the Years (Sep-2018)
6 - Place of Wrath and Tears (Aug-2020)
6.5 - Sugar Got Low (Jan-2021)
7 - Dirty Little Town (Nov-2021)
The Bastard Mummy (Oct-2010)
Dead Even (Jan-2011)
The Cleaner (Jan-2011)

A SpoCompton Crime Novel

1 - At Their Own Game (Feb-2014)
2 - In the Cut (Feb-2020)
3 - All the Pieces Fall (Mar-2022)

A Stefan Kopriva Mystery

1 - Waist Deep (Jun-2011)
2 - Lovely, Dark, and Deep (Oct-2012)
3 - Friend of the Departed (Nov-2015)
4 - Hope Dies Last (Feb-2023)

Multi-Author Series List

A Grifter's Song

1 - The Concrete Smile (Jan-2019)
12 - Down Comes the Night (Jun-2020)

Book List in Order: 44 titles

  • Beneath a Weeping Sky

    River City Crime - 3

    River City is plagued by a serial rapist. His attacks are becoming more brutal and Detective John Tower is sure that he'll go from rape to murder if he isn't stopped soon. Meanwhile, the attacks stir up ghosts for both Officer Katie MacLeod and Offic...

  • The Bastard Mummy

    River City Crime

    Detectives Finch and Elias have seen a lot -- murders, assaults, rapes, missing persons -- but they've never investigated a missing mummy before. Follow the two partners in this novella as they sift through a half dozen different suspects and try to ...

  • The Last Horseman

    Sandy Banks is the last of The Four Horsemen, a vigilante group of ex-cops determined to right the injustices of a broken court system. But now the project is disintegrating, putting him in the middle of chaos. Betrayed by his final partner, blackmai...

  • 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 Yan...

  • The Cleaner

    River City Crime

    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 crazy, surrounded in sadness or just trying ...

  • Dead Even

    River City Crime

    Detectives and mobsters, missing mummies and a shootout with Gypsies â€" here are fifteen stories featuring major and minor characters from the novels of Frank Zafiro, now given their own chance to shine. The good, the bad, and the in-between of Rive...

  • Heroes Often Fail

    River City Crime - 2

    Six-year-old Amy Dugger is snatched in broad daylight. River City's finest begin the desperate and arduous search for her kidnapper. Detective John Tower, Detective Ray Browning, Officer Stefan Kopriva, Officer Katie MacLeod--each holds a piece of th...

  • Under a Raging Moon

    River City Crime - 1

    Zafiro has created a gritty, realistic world out of his own years of experience as a law enforcement officer. In "Under a Raging Moon", as serial gunman is plaguing River City, Washington, and becoming progressively more dangerous and violent. The po...

  • And Every Man Has To Die

    River City Crime - 4

    Russian gangs are taking over the River City underworld. The men and women of the police department are the last line of defense against the former Soviet bloc criminals. But both groups will soon learn how far the other will go to win this battle. T...



  • Waist Deep

    A Stefan Kopriva Mystery - 1

    When disgraced former cop Stefan Kopriva is asked by an old high school classmate to find a runaway sixteen year old daughter, he reluctantly accepts. Driven by guilt over a terrible mistake that drove him from the force more than ten years earlier, ...

  • In the Shadow of El Paso

    Carl is a Yankee cop in a small Texas border town. Isabella is a beautiful Mexican woman that everyone in town loves, including the hapless Pete and the wealthy, powerful Jack...but most of all, Carl.Part romance, part police procedural, IN THE SHADO...

  • Some Degree of Murder

    River City Crime - 4.5

    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. ...

  • Lovely, Dark, and Deep

    A Stefan Kopriva Mystery - 2

    A city councilman is dead of an apparent suicide. Ex-cop Stefan Kopriva finds himself drawn into the case, serving an unlikely client. Once involved, he discovers that things are not as they seem. Kopriva is quickly embroiled in dirty city politics. ...

  • At This Point in My Life

    Detective Jack "Mac" McCrae is about to retire. Without children or any family, he looks back over his career and his life and finds himself wondering what, if any, impact he's had on this world. Then a young woman reappears with a photograph of her ...

  • Chisolm's Debt

    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 th...

  • At Their Own Game

    A SpoCompton Crime Novel - 1

    At Their Own Game is a hard boiled crime novel set in Spokane from Frank Zafiro! Jake Stankovic has been flying below the radar for years, dealing safely in stolen property crime with his two-man crew. But times are tough, so he decides to step up to...

  • Good Shepherd

  • Friend of the Departed

    A Stefan Kopriva Mystery - 3

    When defense attorney Joel Harrity asks Kopriva to look into a prospective client's guilt or innocence in the murder of her husband, he reluctantly agrees. He quickly discovers that answers to even the simplest of questions are nearly impossible to f...

  • An Unlikely Phoenix

    It is 2028. The President has just finished his third term and is about to be elected to a fourth. America has become increasingly isolationist and xenophobic. Emboldened by the President's support, the New American Party has gained power and beco...



  • The Menace of the Years

    River City Crime - 5

    It is December 1999, and the spectre of Y2K hangs over the police department.More menacing yet, officers respond to a hate-fueled home invasion robbery. As the entirety of the River City Police Department prepare for possible chaos when the calendar ...

  • Harbinger

    Set on the sunny Gulf Coast of Florida, Harbinger centers around two lifelong friends and fishing charter boat partners, Boyd Tomlin and Hicks Ledoux. Boyd is the serious one who always makes sure things get done, and Hicks is the carefree one who al...

  • The Concrete Smile

    A Grifter's Song - 1

    Sam and Rachel are on the grift, on the make, and on the run. Long time grifters and lovers, the couple is in St. Louis to run a con on Barry Jacobsen, who owns a concrete business. But the clock is ticking on the deal, and on them. Mobsters from Phi...

  • A Gyro and a Glock

    Tim never wanted to hurt anyone. He certainly didn't want to get hurt. Mostly, he just wanted to hang out with his best friend Ernie and enjoy their high. But an overbearing cop and a series of rough drug dealers conspired to make that impossible. Pr...

  • In the Cut

    A SpoCompton Crime Novel - 2

    Boone has been prospecting with the Iron Brotherhood outlaw motorcycle gang for almost a year, trying to earn his patch with the club. When a simple muscle job goes terribly wrong, his world changes forever. He is quickly plunged deeper into a wo...

  • Down Comes the Night

    A Grifter's Song - 12

    A battered Sam and Rachel realize they must take a sabbatical from the grift for an extended time to escape the vengeful mobsters hounding them. To survive, they must raid all of the honey pots they've left scattered across the country. Some may be w...

  • Place of Wrath and Tears

    River City Crime - 6

    It is the nightmare of every community – a school shooting. When a disturbed teenager masterminds this terrible event, everyone in River City is plunged into the darkness that surrounds it. The students and teachers try to survive, and the...

  • Sugar Got Low

    River City Crime - 6.5

    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 he...

  • The Last Collar

    The demons that drive John Mocha Moccia to obsess, to put absolutely everyone under a microscope, and scratch away at every last clue, make him the best hardnosed detective in Brooklyn homicide. But these same demons may very well write the final cha...

  • No Dibs on Murder

    Tanner Fritz has it all-he's good-looking, well-liked, fabulously wealthy, and has a beautiful wife. He's a veritable well of goodwill and happiness.So why do his four best friends want him dead?Each of them believes they have a genuine reason-he sto...



  • Dirty Little Town

    River City Crime - 7

    Times are tough for the River City Police Department. The city budget is collapsing, forcing an already understaffed department to contemplate laying off cops. The community is upset over the handling of recent events, and their anger is impacti...

  • All the Pieces Fall

    A SpoCompton Crime Novel - 3

    Book #3 in the SpoCompton crime series!George Mase Masaryk knows about secrets. He has a few of his own, including the reason he left the police department. The son of Czechoslovak hippies, his life has been a strange journey from rebel to cop t...

  • The Tattered Blue Line

    Policing today is challenging and different from any other time in our history. Men and women who have worn the badge have a unique perspective on those challenges. This collection features a diverse roster of former law enforcement officers turned c...

  • The Ride-Along

    The Tyler Garrett scandal rocked the Spokane Police Department two years ago. Now, a consent decree governs the agency with Washington D.C. directing its reform. It's a tumultuous time in the city, and public outcry over local and national events is ...

  • All That This Life Requires

    Detective Jack Mac McCrae has lost his hero. Without children or any family, the retired detective takes the death of his mentor hard. When the man's son reaches out to Mac with a mysterious letter containing a startling confession, asking for h...

  • The Worst Kind of Truth

    Detective Katie MacLeod has her hands full.  It has been four years since she was promoted to detective, and after paying her dues in property crimes investigations, she has made it to the Major Crimes unit. This is where the highest profil...

  • Hallmarks of the Job

    Meticulous private investigator Stanley Melvin likes to keep his work grounded in reality, not at all like the classic detective novels he has read incessantly since childhood. But his best friend and annoying neighbor Rudy quickly points out th...

  • Live and Die This Way

    Billie Jo Higgins may be small, but she is a skilled burglar, using her craft to keep her and Toby, her addict twin brother, afloat in a hard world. It is a difficult life, but the two are surviving. They take care of each other.Then B.J. stumbl...

  • Hope Dies Last

    A Stefan Kopriva Mystery - 4

    Former cop turned investigator Stefan Kopriva has long endured the fallout from the fatal mistake that drove him from the police force fourteen years ago. Eking out his redemption one bit at a time, Kopriva has finally reached a point in his life tha...

  • Shades of Knight

    A family in conflict. A missing daughter. Secrets upon secrets. And time slipping away...The Knight family is well-known in Spokane, thanks to the family patriarch, Solomon, founding a regional grocery chain. Each of Solomon's adult children seem to ...



  • All the Forgotten Yesterdays

    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 d...

  • The Last Cop & Other Stories

    Imagine, if you will:◆ The last real cop in a changing world.◆ A bottom-feeder fighting rumors.◆ A meticulous P.I. battling story tropes.◆ A revenge story involving a hamburger.◆ The bittersweet nostalgia of a mob enforc...

  • Some Kind of Hell

    Sandy Banks has temporarily escaped the life of a vigilante assassin in Spokane and is trying to find his way back home. It won't be easy--the agent he evaded is determined to bring him to justice. She is tenacious and resourceful, dredging up the el...

  • Think of Laura

    Will you find my sister?When Missy Jardin utters those words to Stefan Kopriva, the former cop-turned-investigator is sent down a frustrating and baffling path to find a missing woman, Laura Shelton. The case is further complicated by the fact that L...

  • The Silence of the Dead

    Every city has secrets. Some are evil. A killer stalks Spokane, Washington, with his history of victims stretching back fifty years. It seems an unlikely truth, but Major Crimes Detective Wardell Clint is driven to prove it. After disc...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Frank Zafiro has published 44 books.

Frank Zafiro does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Silence of the Dead, was published in October 2024.

The first book by Frank Zafiro, Beneath a Weeping Sky, was published in April 2010.

Yes. Frank Zafiro has 3 series.
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