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Love is dangerous. Desire is deadly. Revenge is loaded. Love like a Loaded Gun is a hardboiled noir thriller about obsession, betrayal, and the kind of love that leaves a trail of bodies behind. Fresh out of a maximum-security prison after ten brutal years, Michael Sampson just wants a beer, a job, and a chance to write again. Instead, he falls hard for April, a married barmaid with a haunted past, an angel-sahped scar she won’t explain, and a much older husband who’s as cruel as he is dangerous. As Michael struggles to rebuild his life, passion turns to fixation, and love turns lethal....

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.

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 ...

WHEN YOU'RE LICENSED TO KILL AND LIKELY TO BE KILLED! A former Army Ranger who served in Iraq and other war zones now works as a spy for the CIA. In this international action/adventure thriller, undercover ghost spook, Peter Hurt, finds himself in Paris on the hunt for a violent radical terrorist bent on mass murder. And the time is running out. From New York Times and USA Today bestselling ITW Thriller and PWA Shamus Award winning author Vincent Zandri comes a new novel that's jam-packed with everything you'd expect from a spy thriller including a madman bent on ultimate power and murder, ...

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.

WHEN YOU'RE WANTED FOR A FIRST-DEGREE MURDER YOU DID NOT COMMIT, YOU'LL DO ANYTHING TO CLEAR YOUR NAME, EVEN IF IT KILLS YOU! When a candidate for New York State Governor who has presidential aspirations is about to be publicly accused of not only raping an innocent woman, but having a child with her, he goes to Keeper Marconi to shut her up. But Keeper has other things in store for the crooked politician that will eventually lead to cold-blooded murder. From New York Times bestselling Thriller and Shamus Award winning author, Vincent Zandri. Nab Your Thrilling Copy Now! What the critics ...

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 ...

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.

NOW YOU SEE HER. NOW YOU DON'T. NOW YOU'RE DEAD! A writer who's suffering from a prolonged bout of writer's block is hunted down by a fan...a deranged fan who now only wants him to write a new novel and dedicate it to her. She stalks him and makes his life a living hell. At the same time, no one believes he's being harassed, convinced he is simply cracking up under the constant pressure to produce words and make money. From Thriller Award winner Vincent Zandri comes a tale of suspense, fear, and dread. Nab your copy now! "Vincent Zandri is one of the most acclaimed thriller writers working ...

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.

WHEN YOU CAN'T LIVE WITHOUT YOUR CELL PHONE, YOU DIE! When a middle-aged New York City advertising writer loses his cell phone on the train during the commute home, he begins to go insane. He’s convinced that he didn’t lose the phone so much as someone stole it. His insanity grows so intense that he takes the entire train car hostage with a stolen pistol. The result is a stand-off not only with the police, but also with the writer’s own internal demons. From New York Times and USA Today bestselling Thriller and Shamus Award-winning author comes another pulse-pounding thriller you can ...

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.

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.

This is the bestselling novel formerly titles "Orchard Grove." 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, and then ...

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 deeper he digs, the more he uncovers a web of lies, corruption, and deadly ...

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.

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 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.

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.

Hitler is Alive and His New Wonder Weapon is a Time Machine! When adventurer Chase Baker is approached by the curator of the Albany Institute of History and Art and an agent for the CIA to seek out the location of the Nazi's most advanced secret weapon, Die Glocke or The Bell, Chase jumps at the chance. Little does he know that the craft is not only a time machine, but it is also capable of transferring Adolf Hitler from the past to the present. Now Chase must go back in time to stop Hitler from using another one of his wonder weapons against the U.S.: the atom bomb. For fans of Clive ...