Bad Beat — Dean Wesley Smith

The Cold Poker Gang consists of a group of retired Las Vegas Police detectives getting together once a week to play cards and work to solve cold cases. Retired Detectives Bayard Lott and Julia Rogers stand at an unmarked grave in the desert, about ready to close a thirty-year-old cold case of a missing woman. But what appears from that grave keeps their case very much open, and shines a light on many other cold cases. Another twisted mystery that only the Cold Poker Gang can solve. “…Dean Wesley Smith draws a royal straight flush by making the hand he deals readers seem possible with this exhilarating political poker thriller…” -- Midwest Book Review on Dead Money