Author: Frank

I recently re-released my novella Hallmarks of the Job as a standalone story. What is Hallmarks of the Job about? Well… Meticulous private investigator Stanley Melvin likes to keep his work grounded in reality, not...

I have a tattoo. Do you?  It wasn’t always the case. When I first became a cop in 1993, the tattoo culture was in its infancy, still the purview of bikers and sailors.  Tattoos...

 … that I am an award-winning author! I mean, technically, I won a pair of poetry awards back in 1987 for my poem “La Vida,” but since I write crime fiction, using that long-ago...

 Since the very beginning of writing stories set in River City (RC), I made a point to differentiate between “the main series” and “other works.” Spoiler alert — this is no longer true. Aside...

Today, episode #166 of Wrong Place, Write Crime went live. The episode featured special guest co-host Colin Conway and me interviewing guest Mark Bergin. It’s the second half of a great interview, and you...

Almost a decade ago, I wrote and published At This Point in My Life, a mystery featuring retired police detective Jack McCrae. I saw it as a standalone title. And, to be fair, it...

It probably won’t be much of a blip on anyone’s radar but I wanted to report that I’ve depublished my title An Unlikely Phoenix by Frank Zafiro. In other news, I’ve published a new...

The Ride-Along, the fifth book in the Charlie-316 series, is now available! What’s it about? The Tyler Garrett scandal rocked the Spokane Police Department two years ago. Now, a consent decree governs the agency...

Last year, encouraged by Colin Conway‘s 509 Crime Anthologies, I decided to explore an anthology project of my own. The idea was to get a diverse group of authors who all had one thing...