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WE ALL HAVE A STORY OR TWO IN US. MINE ARE PARTICULARLY F'D UP! Stories, adventures, misadventures, rants, raves, and general screwed up musings about what it's like to be a full-time New York Times bestselling genre fiction author and also a freelance journalist/writer. From why you should quit your job and become a full-time writer, to Tony Bourdain's suicide, to how to be a foreign correspondent, to why I don't miss marriage, to why it was mistake getting back with my ex-wife, it's all here in one easy-to-read volume. Anything is fair game here because it's all a part of the writer's ...

If Albany, NY had a Spencer for hire, it would be Jack "Keeper" Marconi, PI! For the first time ever, three full-length best-selling Jack "Keeper" Marconi novels are available in this one, low-cost box set: The Guilty: Sometimes the recipe for true love can be the perfect poison. Arbor Hill: Can Jack Marconi keep himself from falling in love with a woman who will be the death of him? The Sins of the Sins: Can you ever really bury the past?

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?

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.

After surviving a bloody run-in with ISIS-sympathizing bandits in the middle of Morocco’s Sahara Desert, adventurer and Renaissance man Chase Baker finds himself in the presence of a Vatican priest who desperately needs his help. One of the church’s great relics has been stolen by a surviving member of the Nazi SS. The relic is none other than the Spear of Longinus. If Chase can’t recover the spear, it will be used by Rickman and his neo-Nazi cohorts to create a brand new evil Fourth Reich.

Renaissance man and adventurer Chase Baker rarely visits home in upstate NY. But when his late dad's resting place is about to be dis-interred to make way for a new road, he volunteers to operate the backhoe. It's the least he can do for a father who was always there to help Chase, the young man. But what he doesn't expect is a job offer by the local Albany Police Department to look into a missing elderly couple.

WHEN THE AMERICAN DREAM DIES, YOU HAVE NO CHOICE BUT TO TURN TO AMERICAN CRIMES! A lower middle-class couple, a mailman and a housewife, living in the suburbs suddenly find themselves caught up in the middle of a Mexican Cartel drug war. Brand new, hot-off-the-press material by New York Times Thriller Award winning author Vincent Zandri. For readers of Charlie Houston, Don Winslow, Lawrence Block, and watchers of Ozark, Breaking Bad, and more. Grab your pulse-pounding thriller now! Praise for Vincent Zandri: "The story of Vincent Zandri is the story of our times." --Business Insider "...

"I KILL. I KILL FOR ART'S SAKE." My obsession with Stella continued to haunt me, but I was quickly becoming just as obsessed with the women who belonged to a secret neighborhood society. It was an honor to be invited to their secret club, but when it led to one of the members asking me to kill her abusive husband in exchange for a handsome payout, I knew that I could not refuse. After all, it wasn’t the cash I was after, so much as the experience. Just like the first time I killed, I would get the material for a wonderful novel. The novel would propel me to the top of the charts. I would ...

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 ...

Richard 'Dick' Moonlight is back!

In the best-selling Moonlight Falls (RJBuckley, 2009), he barely survived his own suicide attempt, not to mention numerous attempts on his life from a gang of Russian thugs operating an illegal organ harvesting operation out of a Saratoga Springs restaurant. Now the former Albany Police Department detective is forced to go through life (or in some cases, near-death) with a piece of .22 caliber bullet lodged in his brain.

Ike Singer is a demolitions expert, or master blaster. He is second to none at his craft, knows every type of explosive known to man, and is the one everyone turns to when they need a safe, controlled explosion. Despite being at the very top of his profession, a personal mistake that led to catastrophe nearly brought Ike's life to ruin. He has spent every day since atoning for that sin and trying to piece his family back together. And after a great deal of work and soul-searching, Ike believes he has finally moved on.

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!

HIS OBSESSION IS SEX. HIS ART IS WRITING. WILL BOTH BE THE DEATH OF HIM? Time is running out for The Handyman. With the sexy blonde Homicide Detective Megan Lawless now investigating him for not one but three murders, he knows it’s inevitable that the law is about to catch up with him. But if bestselling crime author, Victor Casey, can somehow prove the detective has broken police protocol by entering into a lesbian affair with his wife, Stella, perhaps he can derail the investigation. What he has on his side is a video tape of his wife’s steamy sexual encounter with the cop, and he ...

When PI Steve Jobz is hired by the cops to investigate an elementary school Lunch Room Lady who is said to have extorted hundreds of thousands of dollars from the school cafeteria, he thinks, “Easy peasy. No big deal.” Hey, he might even get some tater tots out of it. But what seems like a simple job checking up on a sweet old lady with sticky fingers soon turns into a storm of bullets, murder, and a twist of an ending that will make your head spin.

In this audiobook, Chase teams up with his two best amigos - the skinny, fun loving, Twigs, and the combative but courageous, Baily. At Chase’s urging, the three embark on a late night quest to uncover the Cross of the Last Crusade, which is said to have been buried along with the body of an old Frenchman, Pierre Menands. When Chase’s “sort of” girlfriend, the beautiful Monique, joins the hunt, the band of teens face down haunted ghosts, angry cops, a speeding locomotive, rabid dogs, a murderous resurrected crusader, and finally, the zombie reincarnation of Menands himself.

Where did 1930s gangster Dutch Schultz hide his millions in stolen cash and diamonds? Chase Baker is determined to find out.

You can’t escape the corporation! In the year 2028, a massive online corporation called Everest.Com will control everything we buy, including books, food, medical care, police protection, religion, political affiliations...Everything! Tanya Teal, is fired from the last remaining NYC publishing house due to overwhelming competition from Everest.com. After rekindling her love affair with an old boyfriend, Tony Smart, they drink a few too many and decide to visit one of their old haunts, Gus's Hotdog Shack. They know it's illegal, but what can one hotdog hurt?

Can you ever really bury the past? On a cold November evening back in 1982, real estate lawyer, Marty Finnegan, and socialite, Tracy Reynolds, were seen fighting outside the dining room of the Wolforts Roost Country Club. Unbeknownst to them, three drunken teenage boys who attend the same prep school were witnessing their bitter exchange under the cover of darkness. When the boys decide to head out on a joyride that includes holding up Finnegan at gunpoint, their lives take a turn for the worse.

Dick Moonlight can't help himself. Moonlight, the private detective known as the head case with a bullet lodged in his brain, should be grateful for his current job. But when it becomes clear the cash-starved brain surgeon he's been hired to drive around is protecting his son from a rape conviction, Moonlight is disgusted. Worse, when the charges turn into a case of "reckless murder", Moonlight's the only one trying to keep the kid from the electric chair though the girl - a state senator's daughter - clearly committed suicide.

Chase Baker is famous for seeking out ancient antiquities and treasure from some of the most exotic and dangerous locales on earth. But when he runs into Les Edgerton at SuspenseFest, the two get talking about the 1930s notorious gangster, Dutch Schultz, and the legend of his hidden treasure, which is said to be buried in a little town in upstate New York. Feeling fine from a few drinks at the hotel bar, Chase and Les decide to skip the festival in order to seek out some real suspense. That is, the location of the Dutch Schultz Treasure.