I’ve got three major titles coming out in the remainder of 2023, and all three are already available for pre-order!
The first one is out on July 8, and it’s the fifth book in the SpoCompton series, 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?
The sixth SpoCompton book (and likely last for a while), All the Minor Kings, will be out in early 2024.
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.
Series readers will recognize one of the main story threads from a story in The Cleaner (River City #13) called “Good Shepherd.” This is a story I wrote in 2005. It was a finalist for the Derringer Award (though it didn’t win). Spoiler alert, but the open-ended way the story ends helped set up this resolution almost twenty years later…
Lastly, December will bring the long-awaited sequel to The Last Horseman. A dozen years after the first Sandy Banks thriller was released, Some Kind of Hell is finally coming out!
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.
Fans of Sandy Banks thrillers won’t have to wait as long for book #3 to be released. A Hard Favored Death is scheduled for 2024!
In addition to these novels, there are a couple other titles coming out in 2023. For starters, my long-running serial novella anthology A Grifter’s Song will come to a conclusion with episode #35, Into the Dying Sun, on October 1. And my short story collection, The Last Cop & Other Stories will be out November 7.
In the “possible” arena, we may see one or even two more Stanley Melvin PI Stories. The first, Hallmarks of the Job, won the second place award at the PSWA conference in 2021 and was named one of the best truly independent titles by the Independent Fiction Alliance. In Shades of the Job and On the Job, we’ll follow Stanley on a couple more cases.
You can find more information about any of these titles at my website.
Now you’re up on Frank Zafiro releases for the remainder of 2023! Hit that pre-order button so you get your copy on day one!
Source: All The Madness In My Soul
