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The bestselling novel formerly titled "Orchard Grove" from Polis Books Sometimes fences make for nice neighbors. Other times they hide the evil that lurks within. Orchard Grove is a town like any other, with quiet neighborhoods and apple groves . . . though Ethan, the depressed screenplay writer, and his secretive wife, Susan, would tell you differently. So would the seductive serial killer living next door. The apple trees are fertilized with evil, and the backyard fences aren’t enough to stop the manipulative mind games and dangerous lies. The lines between good and evil are blurred, ...

Chase Baker is a true Renaissance man. He’s also a man who knows how to find trouble. A part-time resident of Florence, Italy, his resume reads like a modern day Da Vinci or Casanova. Writer, private investigator, tour guide, historian, treasure hunter, adventurer, and even archaeological sandhog, Chase is also a prolific lover. Unfortunately for him, his dangerous liaisons all too often make him the target of a jealous husband.

You might think that a guy with the name of Steve Jobz would be one lucky man. That he'd be rich and have the world at his fingertips. But instead, Jobz is barely making ends meet at the New York State Department of Unemployment Insurance Fraud. A former cop who was forced to retire early after shooting a young man of color during a convenience store holdup, Jobz has since resigned himself to wasting away his days in a four-by-four cubicle inside an office space that's more boring than watching the paint dry.

ALERT: TERMINAL MOONLIGHT IS A FINALIST FOR THE 2026 ITW THRILLER AWARD! For Dick Moonlight, Just Staying Alive Is the Ultimate Revenge. When a drop-dead gorgeous TV news reporter walks into private investigator Dick Moonlight’s Albany office—flanked by two cops and holding an envelope full of cash—he knows trouble has arrived. She’s the key witness against two brutal Russian gangsters accused of murdering a local bodega owner, and Moonlight’s been hired to keep her alive long enough to testify. But Moonlight quickly realizes there’s more to this case than meets the eye. The ...

Before he became the world’s greatest adventurer, Chase Baker dug up trouble in his own backyard. From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Vincent Zandri comes a high-octane short thriller that blends Indiana Jones adventure with 1980s nostalgia and pure adrenaline! Albany, New York. 1980. Sixteen-year-old Chase Baker and his best friend Patrick Daly are supposed to be ordinary high schoolers. But when Chase’s father—a rugged sandhog and part-time archaeologist—reveals he’s been hired on a secret government dig to exhume President Chester Arthur’s grave, the boys ...

Every missing husband has a secret. Some are worth killing for. When wealthy socialite Ruth Bates walks into Jack Marconi’s PI office, she claims her husband is missing. But in Albany’s underworld of cartels, crooked politicians, and country club secrets, nothing is ever that simple. What starts as a routine case soon plunges Marconi and his partner Blood into a nightmare of sex trafficking rings, brutal cartel enforcers, and a mansion hiding horrors behind its polished doors. The deeper Marconi digs, the more he realizes Ruth may not be a victim at all—but a femme fatale playing a ...

Beware the Big Bad Wolf. He's Coming for You When You Least Expect it. When an art professor mom and her pre-teen daughter rent a quiet house on an idyllic Adirondack lake for a full semester sabbatical, they become the target of two serial killers who believe the women are the reincarnation of a mother and daughter whom they terrorized to death back in the mid-1980s. For fans of Stephen King, Lawrence Block, Joe Konrath, and more, comes a pulse-pounding thriller that combines psychological suspense with pure horror, and intense action--a thriller only New York Times and USA Today ...

Chase Baker is a true Renaissance Man. He's also a man who knows how to find trouble. A part-time resident of Florence, Italy, his resume reads like a modern day Da Vinci or Casanova. Writer, private investigator, tour guide, historian, treasure hunter, adventurer, and even archaeological sandhog, Chase is also a prolific lover. Unfortunately for him, his dangerous liaisons all too often make him the target of a jealous husband.

They call him Keeper, but lately Jack Marconi has specialized in losing things. Last year, he lost his wife in a mysterious traffic accident, and ever since, he's felt like he's losing his mind. As the warden of the maximum security Green Haven Prison, home to 2,500 of New York's most hardened criminals, Marconi can't afford to drop focus, even for an instant. But he's been slipping up on the job, and he's tormented by flashbacks to the Attica uprising. All of which makes him ripe for the role of patsy when a convicted cop killer named Eduardo Vasquez stages a daring breakout on his watch.

When two men from very different Albany neighborhoods die identical gruesome deaths from drinking their own tap water, the APD become entirely baffled. They're also worried that they're about to have a public panic on their hands. Therefore, they call in PI Steve Jobz to handle the deadly situation, both under the radar and as fast as he can.

When a divorced writer is tailed by a Mexican gang member, he and his twelve-year-old daughter are forced to defend themselves. But when it’s discovered that the young lady is capable of some professional grade bad-assness, Dad realizes he not only has a special child on his hands, but that she’s an absolute killing machine. Twists and turns, surprises and thrills from New York Times bestselling, Thriller and Shamus Award winning mystery author, Vincent Zandri.

When a hotshot literary agent by the name of Suzanne Bonchance lures Richard Moonlight into searching for her missing star client -the boozing, womanizing Roger Walls - the private detective finds himself waist-deep in a whole lot of trouble. But when a sexy, young writing MFA student who claims to know Walls comes to his rescue, Moonlight not only becomes smitten with her charm, he also finds himself falling in love with a girl he barely knows. As the trail for Walls narrows and truths are revealed, Moonlight finds himself wanting to run away as fast as his legs will take him.

FEAR OF FLYING IS REAL. IT GETS DEADLY AT 30,000 FEET. Bestselling pulp fiction writer Tim Dutton boards a transatlantic flight to Rome with his wife, hoping to save their collapsing marriage. What he gets instead is a nightmare. When the pilots are found dead from spider bites and no one is left to fly the plane, panic erupts. Then the real horror reveals itself: thousands of killer tarantulas have infested the aircraft, crawling through the cabin, the cockpit, and the walls. Trapped in the air with nowhere to run, Dutton teams up with a fearless—and stunning—flight attendant to stop ...

For the first time ever, all three hot-blooded Sam Savage Sky Marshal thrillers and mysteries come together to form this thrilling bundle. These nonstop-action and adventure thrillers are filled with the romance and mystery you would expect of Thriller Award-winner Vincent Zandri. They are not for the faint of heart!

If death is knocking at your door, you have no choice but to accept it. But if evil is knocking at your door, you have no choice but to kill it. It's been decades since Rebecca Underhill and her late twin sister, Molly, were abducted by a madman in the deep woods behind their farmhouse. It's also been many years since that madman was released from prison and went after Rebecca a second time. It's also been years since a copycat killer called The Skinner tried to murder Rebecca and her young son. Now sixty and alone, Rebecca is battling cancer. But soon she will encounter a third monster who...

It's been thirty years since the terrifying abduction of twin sisters Rebecca and Molly Underhill by a deranged man. Fearful of retribution against their family, the girls kept the incident secret. Rebecca, alone since Molly died of cancer, suddenly begins getting strange and anonymous text messages—the first with just her name. Is Molly trying to communicate with her? And it couldn't be their attacker from so many years ago. Surely, he'd still be in jail or dead by now—wouldn't he?

This Time Murdering for Your Art Makes You a Billionaire. Or Does it? Bestselling author Scott Ward kills for his art and for his muse. He is The Handyman, and his hunger for writing and sex are insatiable. He will kill for you too, if you are willing to become a member of his exclusive club. This steamy noir hard-boiled mystery series has been called "brilliant" and "riveting." From New York Times bestselling Thriller and Shamus Award winning author, Vincent Zandri. Nab your hot copy now! "Vincent Zandri is one of the most acclaimed thriller writers working today!" -- Publishers Weekly "...

Scott Ward Just Created his most Profound Story to Date. It's a True Rags-to-Billions Story. All it took to Write it was a Murder! With Manhattan billionaire Guy Morgan dead, writer and Handyman Scott Ward can now have his muse, Veronica Morgan, all to himself, along with all her money. But the walls are closing in on him as reporter Anthony Newton is calling for the late bestseller Victor Casey's body to be exhumed, exposing the truth about Ward. Will Scott Ward aka Victor Casey be forced to return to Death Row? Scroll up to grab your thriller copy now! "Vincent Zandri is one of the most ...

Maybe Victor Casey was spared execution by lethal injection. But now the noose is tightening around his neck. With Veronica now worth billions of dollars and carrying bestselling author, Scott Ward's baby, he feels like the King of New York City. But he also knows that it won't take much for his house of cards to come crashing down. One thing is standing in the way not only of unbelievable wealth but also his life, is fellow writer, Anthony Newton, who wants him dead. From ITW Thriller Award winning author Vincent Zandri comes a steamy mystery series full of suspense and passion. Scroll up ...

BESTSELLING AUTHOR, VICTOR CASEY, IS A SLAVE TO HIS CARNAL DESIRES AND HE WILL KILL FOR HIS ART... “The police are on to me. They know I murder for my art. They just can’t prove it. Not yet anyway. My novel, Savage Sins, has been a huge success, but also a curse. My obsessive love for Stella has made me her slave and now she has forced me into marriage, not because she loves me, but she wants to control me. She is the leader of the Sex Club and she dominates us all. But here’s the thing…the lead detective on the case against me is a luscious blonde with the ironic name of Lawless. ...