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War is Hell! But Stealing Nazi Treasure is Pure Gold! Adventurer Chase Baker is back in action. He, along with the beautiful daughter of a Hasidic Jew who owns a New York City pawn shop, fly to Europe to uncover a stash of Nazi gold estimated to be worth over $1.5 billion dollars. How are they going to do it? They have a secret SS diary in hand that contains a map. And X marks the spot. Only problem is, some modern-day Nazis and the war in Ukraine are getting in their way. From bestselling Thriller Award winning author Vincent Zandri comes a pulse-pounding ride for fans of Dan Brown, ...

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.

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.

"WOULD YOU COMMIT MURDER FOR YOUR ART?" Making love to Stella. It’s always on my mind. It follows me wherever I go. I can’t get enough of her. Can’t satiate the hunger, the desire, the addiction. But I’m also a writer. You might have seen my name around. Or perhaps not. There was a time I collected one rejection letter after the other. Editors said my prose was cold, lifeless, emotionless, and worst of all, lacking real life experience. I had thought that the love of my life, Stella, would be my muse. But as much as I lusted for her--as much as I’d became a slave to my desires for...

HE KILLS FOR HIS ART AND FOR HIS MUSE. BUT NOW HIS MUSE HAS TRIED TO KILL HIM! IT'S TIME FOR REVENGE! In this third and final episode of Season III of the critically acclaimed Handyman, steamy, romance, murder mystery series, bestselling novelist and ex-con, Victor Casey has been the victim of an assassination attempt partially instigated by his love and muse, Stella. Now, as he heels inside the home medical office of a beautiful female plastic surgeon, he plots out his next move, which is nothing less then changing his identity and acting out his final revenge not only on Stella, but on ...

Fear of Flying is Real. It Gets Even More Real When the Plane is Infested with Killer Tarantulas! Bestselling pulp fiction writer, Tim Dutton and his wife Claire are flying to Rome, Italy, to rekindle their failing marriage. But when the pilots are discovered dead from spider bites, and no one is flying the plane, havoc ensues. That's when it's also discovered thousands of tarantulas have infiltrated the plane. Dutton, along with a stunning female flight attendant, have no choice but to attempt to eradicate them before it's too late. From New York Times bestselling Thriller Award winning ...

From New York Times, USA Today, and Amazon overall number-one best-selling thriller and Shamus Award-winning author Vincent Zandri comes a quick, to-the-point listen about making it as a full-time hybrid author.

With Fat Elvis the perfect candidate for a starring role in their new film, Moonlight is hired by the police to go undercover and expose the snuff film operation which, it turns out, is also partly financed by Mexican drug cartel gang members. The stakes and the body count in this hard-boiled thriller are higher than a box office smash hit, and far more deadly.

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.

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.

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.

CAN BESTSELLING NOVELIST/KILLER, VICTOR CASEY, UNDO HIS WEB OF SEX, SUBMISSION, SCANDAL, AND MURDER? Casey's first novel, Savage Sins, is a major success. Meanwhile, his lust-filled girlfriend, Stella, has forced his hand in marriage. Now that she owns half the rights to Victor’s intellectual properties, she has him just where she wants him. He's become her slave. But at the same time, a tall blonde detective by the same of Megan Lawless is not only onto Victor’s crimes, she is in the process of seducing Stella. And for the first time in her life, Stella is not only falling head over ...

Based on true events, PERMANENCE, is a dark, "Hitchcockian" literary tour-de-force about Mary Kismet, a woman who is holding onto a deep dark secret too painful and startling to reveal. Now, having isolated herself from the world, she attempts to break away from her demons by immersing herself, body and soul, into a passionate and erotic love affair with her psychiatrist. From NEW YORK TIMES and USA TODAY Bestselling author, Vincent Zandri, comes a story with an unforgettable climax. Called "hauntingly beautiful" by bOOk R3vi3ws, PERMANENCE is a tragic novel of obsession, dark compulsions, ...

LOOKING FOR A BINGEABLE BOXED SET FILLED WITH GRIPPING THRILLERS? Hopeless romantic PI Dick Moonlight goes on the trail of a rabble rousing bestselling author and ends up neck deep in a whole lot of life, death, and love trouble. Renaissance Man, adventurer, and lover, Chase Baker, is hired to search for an archaeology professor who's flown the coop to volatile post-revolutionary Egypt, but at the same time, finds himself on the trail of the most important archaeological prize in the history of man: the mortal remains of Jesus Christ. Dick Moonlight PI is hired to watch over a historical ...

From Stranded in the Heart of Darkness... "Red-shirted man speaks once more. In turn, I gaze at the interpreter, await his translation. “You have fought and killed many men?” he hesitantly asks. I shake my head. “No,” I say, taken aback. “I have never killed anyone.” “In the voodoo culture,” the translator goes on, “men who are able to wear such a band are considered to be powerful fighters.” Now gesturing towards the red-shirted man. “This man here envies you for your power.” _________________ In 2009, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Vincent Zandri ...

When Dick Moonlight PI is instructed by Homicide Detective Nick Miller at the Albany Police Department to investigate the double homicide of a pair of married lawyers up in Saratoga Springs during the thoroughbred racing season, he finds himself in the middle of a killing spree that just might get him and his sidekick, Fat Elvis, killed too.

HE'S KILLED FOR ART'S SAKE. HE WAS EXECUTED FOR ART'S SAKE, BUT SOMEHOW SURVIVED. NOW HE MUST KILL AGAIN. BUT NOT FOR ART'S SAKE. INSTEAD HE WILL KILL ON BEHALF OF THE WOMAN WHO HAS ENSLAVED HIM. HIS MUSE, STELLA. Bestselling author and Handyman, Victor Casey, is out of prison. But not after having been declared clinically dead for almost a full minute when he was strapped to the executioner's table. Now that he's back with his muse, Stella, and her live-in lover and fellow Sex Club member, Megan Lawless, he is told he must kill one more time if he is to be free from his past. But there's ...

Why Get Rich Slowly When You Can Cheat and Get Rich Quick? The dimwitted characters from the classic Zandri short story, Bingo Night, return in a tale about getting rich quick, which is what Tony and Stan are all about even if their efforts get them in some serious hot water. In this new episode, the meatheads decide to cross the southern border with all the illegal aliens to collect all that free cash and all those free government goodies. Only, things don't go quite as expected when the law decides to give chase and start shooting. From New York Times and USA Today Thriller and Shamus ...

A gold-digging spouse who is also a serial killer.... The beautiful owner of a women’s dress shop brutally murdered on the floor.... A sexy dame who shows up unannounced at Dick Moonlight PI’s office claiming she’s about to be murdered.... Two numbskulls who decide to rob a home for the aged during bingo night.... These are just a few of the sexy, hard-boiled, and noir tales you’ll find in this first-ever volume of collected short stories by Thriller and PWA Shamus Award-winner Vincent Zandri.

The lovable news anchor known as "Mr. TV" has texted racy photos of himself to a coworker. As a result, Mr. TV is not only getting sued, but is being issued death threats from the victim’s Russian immigrant father. When Miller assigns Steve Jobz to personally watch over Mr. TV and his cougar wife, Janice, what he discovers is that the couple are up to their necks in more than just a sexting scandal. They are in fact broke and living on cash that is coming from a very unlikely source: the Russian mob.