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A gang of Obama-masked thugs in a downtown Albany alley gave Dick Moonlight a one-way ticket to the Pearly Gates. But when his hovering spirit slips back into his bruised body, the real trouble starts. A private detective with a short-term memory problem, Moonlight knows he’s still in danger. He’s got plenty of enemies to keep him guessing why — even the latest love of his life, Lola, can’t be trusted. But the goons who snuffed him want something else: Moonlight’s latest client, a handicapped nuclear engineer, had a top-secret box the gang believes is in Moonlight’s possession. Moonlight can’t remember any box — but that doesn’t mean he doesn’t have it. He just better figure out where it is before he winds up dead for the last time.

What’s a nice, proper dame like Joan Parker doing in a place like Dick Moonlight’s office? The scar running down her face - from the business end of an axe - has something to do with it. Shortly after the attack that killed her husband and left her for dead, she pointed the finger at her son, Christopher, who now sits in jail. But the woman insists the police have it all wrong - Christopher didn’t do it - and she just needs the private eye to prove it. Moonlight knows mothers will say anything to protect their kids. He also knows how the police can take a mistake and run with it.

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 and then erased as Ethan does what it takes to survive.

It's been eight years since artist and single mom Rebecca Underhill was abducted and left to die in an old broken down house located in the middle of the dark woods. But even if her abductor, Joseph William Whalen, has since been killed, another, more insidious evil is once more out to get her in the form of the Skinner. The son of an abusive butcher, Skinner intends on finishing the job Whalen started but failed at.

The bestselling New Series by New York Times Thriller Award Winning Author Vincent Zandri is now available in a bingeable box set. Book I, The Embalmer - The embalmer is dying to meet you. question is, are you willing to die for a date with him too?, Book II, The Flower Man - Sexual harassment in the workplace will not only ruin your career, it will get you killed, and Book III, The Extortionist - You're never too old to live and never too young to die.

Originally published in Conor Friedersdorf's Culture 11 Magazine, New York Times and USA Today Bestselling author Vincent Zandri's BREAKDOWN recounts the story of a teenage boy who suffers his first nervous breakdown due to a genetic condition known as Severe and Recurring Non-Psychotic Depression. Suggested reading for parents of children who suffer from depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, and other emotional and psychologically debilitating diseases. Praise for Vincent Zandri: "Sensational...Masterful...Brilliant." --New York Post "The action never wanes." --Fort Lauderdale Sun-...

WHO WOULD YOU CHOOSE TO SAVE FROM A MADMAN'S BULLET? THE LOVE OF YOUR LIFE OR YOUR CHILD? Lust. Betrayal. Blood in the shadows. An affair between a decorated cop and a restless writer is dangerous enough. But when their secret passion collides with a stranger in the fluorescent-lit aisles of a supermarket, the accident sparks something far darker than they could imagine. The man they hit isn’t just angry—he’s a predator. And he’s not about to let them walk away clean. What follows is a descent into stalking, obsession, and abduction, where every guilty pleasure has a price, and ...

Sky Marshal and former Army Ranger Sam Savage has just been handed his most dangerous assignment yet, and it has nothing to do with keeping a plane full of innocent people safe while cruising the friendly skies at 35,000 feet. This time, the sky marshal is on the trail of a New Viet Cong terrorist bent on wreaking havoc on a hotel full of American and Chinese businesspeople.

Prison Can't Prepare You for the Pain They Will Inflict on Your Daughter if You Don't Stop Them First! Sidney O'Keefe just wants to spend a peaceful weekend alone with his family in the vacation paradise of Lake Placid, New York, now that he's been paroled after a ten-year stretch in a maximum-security prison. But any illusion of a peace is destroyed when his eleven-year-old daughter, Chloe, suddenly disappears, leaving Sidney and his wife, Penny, stricken with fear and panic. When it's determined that his old crime boss, Mickey Rabuffo, might be behind the abduction, it becomes apparent ...

"Would you kill for art's sake?" The walls are closing all around rags to riches fiction writer, Victor Casey, as his wife and muse, the lovely Stella, falls for the very detective who is investigating Casey's alleged murders. The detective in question is a stunning concrete blonde, by the name of Megan Lawless, and together, she and Stella are making plans that will destroy Vic if he allows them to happen.

Sidney O'Keefe just wants to spend a peaceful weekend alone with his wife and daughter in the vacation paradise of Lake Placid, New York, now that he's been paroled after a 10-year stretch in a maximum security prison. But any illusion of a peaceful future is destroyed when his 11-year-old daughter Chloe suddenly disappears from the iconic beach scene, leaving Sidney and his wife Penny stricken with fear and panic.

PI Dick Moonlight wakes up to find himself on a plummeting plane and handcuffed to an FBI agent. As if his life wasn’t already turbulent enough - his bar burned down; his ex, Lola, left him for another man; and Jack Daniels is his new best friend - the FBI informs him that he’s got unfinished business. His last case, the one with Russian mobsters after a top secret flash drive, isn’t exactly closed.

One bullet missed his head. The next one won’t. When washed-up novelist Troy Wordsworth survives a drive-by shooting, he thinks it’s random—until the bullet that missed him lodges inside his latest book. Now, with his ex-wife, his lover, and a dead cop tangled in a web of revenge and betrayal, Troy must face the truth behind his own fiction. The past isn’t just haunting him…it’s locked, loaded, and coming for his soul. A gritty, twist-packed noir from Vincent Zandri, the Thriller and Shamus Award–winning master of pulse-pounding suspense. For fans of Charlie Houston, Lawrence ...

When a convict who is referred to as "The Monster" is released early from a maximum-security correctional prison due to the "favors" he's performed for the warden, he finds himself the target of assassination by the very cartel members responsible for his teenage son's death.

A father’s last wish becomes a son’s darkest secret. When dying mob enforcer Frank “The Chin” Casale summons private eye Dick Moonlight to his hospital bedside, he has one final request—find the son he abandoned more than forty years ago. But what begins as a simple missing-person job spirals into a dark, shocking journey through Albany’s underworld of lost souls, brutal secrets, and sins that refuse to stay buried. From a decaying Catholic orphanage run by a dangerously seductive “Mother Superior” to a courtroom killer hiding in plain sight, Moonlight follows a blood-...

This volume of the best-selling action & adventure series, The Chase Baker Trilogy, features three Chase Baker stories: Chase Baker and the Lincoln Curse, Chase Baker and the Da Vinci Divinity, and Chase Baker and the Seventh Seal. The Chase Baker Trilogy: Volume II, is an affordable way to spend the weekend binging award-winning men's and women's action & adventure and romantic suspense. For fans of Clive Cussler, Dan Brown, and JR Rain, from New York Times and USA Today best-selling ITW Thriller Award winner, Vincent Zandri.

When Adventurer Chase Baker is employed by a Vatican priest to uncover one of the most sought-after Biblical relics known to man...the very robe the Romans wrapped Jesus in after His scourging... Chase enters a world of deceit, danger, and death brought upon by evil power-hungry global players who are also going after the relic. While Chase wants to see the robe enshrined in the Vatican Museum, the others want to use the robe's occult powers for nefarious reasons, the major one being, total world domination.

When You Love Someone to Death, They Simply Must Die When Jack is hired by a crime writer/writing professor to find the culprit in the alleged murder of a young man for which he's the prime suspect, he and his sidekick, Blood, find themselves entering a shady world of lies, fictional facts, nonfictional lies, and sexy women who want to lure them into their honey traps. From New York Times and USA Today bestselling Thriller and Shamus Award-winning author Vincent Zandri. For fans of Michael Connelly, Lee Child, and Robert B. Parker. Nab your thrilling copy now. "Vincent Zandri is one of the ...

How Would You React if You Were Tied to Railroad Tracks and a Speeding Locomotive was Bearing Down on You? Crazy PI Dick Moonlight teams up with Fat Elvis to uncover the plot behind the violent homicide of an Albany man. How was the man killed? He was tied to the train tracks utilized by an Amtrak passenger train. What seems like a simple case of revenge on behalf of more than one man and woman, turns into a dangerous trainwreck for Moonlight and Elvis. And that's putting it lightly. From New York Times, Thriller Award winning author, Vincent Zandri. "Vincent Zandri is one of the most ...

Some years ago, Moonlight Falls, the first novel in what would become the 2015 Thriller Award- and Shamus Award-winning best-selling hard-boiled detective series was first introduced to the world. Since then, seven Dick Moonlight noir private detective novels have been released to great acclaim. But now, for the first time ever, a longer, grittier, sexier, more dangerous, more romantic version of the original pilot episode is available. It represents the author's original dark vision and the desperate, if not paranoid state of mind he was in when writing it.