Audiobooks by Frank Zafiro

River City series, Books 12-14 Audiobook

"Contains the River City books Chisolm's Debt, The Cleaner, and All the Forgotten Yesterdays. 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 the Vietnam War…horrors Chisolm couldn’t save her from. Now Chisolm must find the man responsible and bring him to justice to repay an old debt and in the hopes of putting his own demons to rest…once and for all. THE CLEANER: Features stories about 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 criminally insane, surrounded by sadness or just trying to get by in a tough world. These are the many and varied characters of River City, brought to life in 17 short stories that fill in gaps and moments within the River City series that the novels don't explore. ALL THE FORGOTTEN YESTERDAYS: 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 drugs from elderly victims. Then she gets handed a cold missing persons case that comes with political pressure. Katie must balance finding a dangerous burglar with discovering the fate of a woman who disappeared five years ago. As she digs into both cases, she finds frustration in one and a slew of secrets in the other. How far will someone go to keep their secrets? Detective Katie MacLeod is about to find out."

Frank Zafiro (Author), Dave Mather, Frank Zafiro, James Conlan, Kristi Scalise (Narrator)

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River City Series, Books 8-10

"Contains the River City books, Dead Even, Some Degree of Murder, and No Good Deed. DEAD EVEN: Dead Even features fifteen stories highlighting major and minor characters from the River City series, including series favorite Katie MacLeod, Detectives Finch and Elias, hard-luck Officer Paul Hiero, and transplanted gangster, Dominic Bracco. SOME DEGREE OF MURDER: 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. Virgil Kelly lives in the shadowy world of the criminal underground. He's just arrived in River City with a single-minded mission: find his daughter’s killer and bury him. In his search for a murderer, Tower uses his experience and training along with all the expertise of modern forensics. In the hunt for his prey, Kelley uses intimidation and violence, tools which he wields with precision and anger. Virgil Kelley and John Tower are on a collision course. Somebody is going to die. River City will never be the same. NO GOOD DEED: These are the characters you'll meet in 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 Yankee cop in the West Texas. Explore the tangled lives of these men and women in fourteen short tales set in River City!"

Colin Conway, Frank Zafiro (Author), Conor Hall, Craig Jessen, Dan And, David Temple, Frank Zafiro, Sharon Bond (Narrator)

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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 drugs from elderly victims. Then she gets handed a cold missing persons case that comes with political pressure. Katie must balance finding a dangerous burglar with discovering the fate of a woman who disappeared five years ago. As she digs into both cases, she finds frustration in one and a slew of secrets in the other. How far will someone go to keep their secrets? Detective Katie MacLeod is about to find out."

Frank Zafiro (Author), Dave Mather (Narrator)

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Think of Laura

"“Will you find my sister?” Those words send Stefan Kopriva, the former cop-turned-investigator, down a frustrating and baffling path after Laura Shelton. Is she running from an embezzlement charge? Or hiding from an abusive husband? People are talking but nothing they say is getting Kopriva closer to the truth. Who is the real Laura? Kind and caring? Desperate and guilt-ridden? Or was she ruthless and opportunistic? Kopriva won’t know until he finds her. If she’s still alive. "

Frank Zafiro (Author), Dan And (Narrator)

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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 elusive truth of Sandy's past as she pursues him. Worse yet, there are mysterious forces operating in the shadows that threaten to change Sandy's life forever -- a life that has already taken him through... Some Kind of Hell."

Frank Zafiro (Author), Daniel Dorse (Narrator)

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The Worst Kind of Truth

"Detective Katie MacLeod has her hands full. It has been four years since her promotion 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 profile cases land-homicides, robberies, serious assaults, and sexual assaults. Katie catches two rape cases almost back-to-back. One victim is a prostitute with an unknown suspect... who Katie fears may be gearing up for more assaults. The other victim is a college student who has accused her boyfriend, a popular baseball player, of raping her at a party. Both cases have their own set of perils. Katie juggles her time investigating each one, encountering many obstacles-a lack of evidence in one, and wondering how to parse conflicting statements in the other. As she battles past these difficulties, Katie faces another fact... that both cases hit home with her in very different ways. Solving them becomes more than just a job for her, but something deep-seated and personal... something that may exorcise some of her own demons from the past. Or will they consume her?"

Frank Zafiro (Author), Michael Bowen (Narrator)

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The Trade Off

"An undercover cop and a vigilante uncle are pitted against the human trafficking industry in River City.Detective “Gus” Dow works deep undercover in the sex slave industry as a woman who buys and sells other young women. She's committed to her mission to bring the traffickers to justice but how long will that take? How much misery can she watch and still walk the line between duty and human decency? “Bull” Porter blurs those lines when he finds out his niece is kidnapped. Rather than hunting in the wilds, he stalks his prey on the dirty streets of River City's underbelly where the hunted can turn the tables in an instant. How far will Bull go to save his niece? What lines will he cross? When Gus and Bull collide in their battle to rescue the latest victims, the stakes escalate to include not only freedom and family, but also careers and life itself, hanging in the balance. Everything has a trade off and both Gus and Bull must decide what’s worth losing to save what's worth saving... if they can."

Frank Zafiro (Author), Dave Mather, Ellie Gossage (Narrator)

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The Last Cop and 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 enforcer. - A street racer trying to escape a small town. - The confusing last words of a rich man. - A surprise at the shooting range. - A familiar robber. - An untimely traffic stop. - The confusing nuances of contemporary policing. These are the characters and stories you will discover in this collection from award-winning crime fiction author, Frank Zafiro!"

Frank Zafiro (Author), Craig Jessen, Damon Abdallah, Dave Mather, Frank Zafiro, Jill Maser, Jonathan Brown (Narrator)

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Hallmarks of the Job: A Stanley Melvin PI Story

"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 that his routine 'cheater' case is rapidly taking on all of the features that Stanley steadfastly insists are mere fictional tropes of the genre. Stanley isn't too sure how he feels about this. But as a professional, he forges ahead, despite getting out of his comfort zone. He knows he has to solve this case even if it is taking on all of the hallmarks of the job. Additional notes: Stanley Melvin stories take place in the SpoCompton universe. Hallmarks of the Job won the 2022 PSWA Award & was also selected by the Independent Fiction Alliance as one of the best 'truly independent' titles of 2022!"

Frank Zafiro (Author), Damon Abdallah (Narrator)

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Hope Dies Last

"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 that finds him stable and reasonably happy. Then the mother who abandoned him when he was a toddler returns to River City and completely shakes up his world. Though professing to be sober and seeking to reconnect with her son, Kopriva is initially suspicious of her intentions. But his own desire to fill the void that she created all those years ago urges him to accept, and perhaps even forgive, her. Not only that, but the woman seems to be sincere in every way, causing Kopriva to trust her and to believe. What follows is a shocking betrayal and a murder that sends Kopriva on perhaps the darkest journey of his life. He seeks out the truth, even though it isn't what he wants it to be. For better or worse, Kopriva knows that hope dies last."

Frank Zafiro (Author), Dan And (Narrator)

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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 have gone their own way. Jocelyn is a cop. Nicky is a criminal. Susan and Harold are both striving to make it in the business, each in their own way. Marigold is an artist. And Lily, the youngest and frailest of them, is missing—sucked into the dark recesses of the drug world. When Solomon calls his children to band together to find their sister, all of them agree to help. But each has their own struggles and their own secrets. Will they find Lily before she is too far gone to save? What will they each sacrifice to rescue her? Shades of Knight is book #5 in the hard-boiled SpoCompton series."

Frank Zafiro (Author), Dan And, Ellie Gossage (Narrator)

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The Stefan Kopriva Mysteries, Books 1-3

"Contains Waist Deep, Lovely, Dark, and Deep, and Friend of the Departed, plus BONUS CONTENT: two Stefan Kopriva short stories, 'Five for Fighting and a Murder Misconduct' and 'Cassie.' Waist Deep: When disgraced former cop Stefan Kopriva is asked by an old high school classmate to find a runaway sixteen year old girl, he reluctantly accepts. Driven by guilt over a terrible mistake that drove him from the force more than ten years earlier, Kopriva battles old injuries, old demons and long ago memories as he unravels the mystery of the missing Kris Sinderling...and seeks his own redemption. Lovely, Dark, and Deep: 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. Along the way, he encounters pimps, prostitutes, gangsters, contractors, and the police as he tries to get to the bottom of what happened, and why. That is something no one wants, so Kopriva must risk his own freedom and his very life to find the answers, no matter how deep the corruption goes. Friend of the Departed: 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 find. The deeper Kopriva digs, the more no one seems to want him to find the truth behind the death of Harrity's friend. Faced with a possible murderer that won't answer questions, a police department asking the wrong people the wrong questions, and threats of violence from an unknown source, Kopriva forges on, determined to discover the truth....even if it kills him."

Frank Zafiro (Author), Craig Jessen, Dan And, John Hourigan (Narrator)

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