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MOM MIGHT BE ALWAYS RIGHT. BUT WHAT IF SHE'S ALSO A KILLER? When PI Steve Jobz's aging mom's boyfriend is found murdered in his Anne Lee Home for the Aged bedroom, who becomes the prime suspect? Steve's own mother. For fans of Robert B. Parker, Michael Connelly, Charlie Houston, and more comes another killer thriller in the bestselling Steve Jobz PI series from New York Times and USA Today bestselling Thriller and Shamus Award winning author, Vincent Zandri. Nab yours now! . "Vincent Zandri is one of the most acclaimed thriller writers working today!" -- Publishers Weekly "The story of ...

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?

No matter how you spin it - from a self-driving car that abducts its passengers, to a newly released ex-con who is being hunted by father/daughter hoods for the 300 grand he owes them, to a suburban couple startled awake in the middle of the night after two Antifa hoods break into their home intent on doing some real damage - these stories are relentless. Gear up for an adrenaline-fueled ride to the dark side and back, where the bad guy isn't always bad and the good guys will stab you in the back.

When two cons doing several respective back-to-back life sentences for murder make a daring - if not Hollywood-style - escape from the Dannemora Maximum Security Prison in upstate New York, PI Jack Marconi receives a personal invitation from the governor of New York State to track the murderers down and deliver them personally to the front door of the governor's mansion.

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 ...

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 "...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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. In the Complete Saga you get all four pulse-pounding books. For fans of Ozark and Breaking Bad comes a thriller only New York Times bestselling Thriller and Shamus Award winning author Vincent Zandri can write. Grab your pulse-pounding copy now! "Vincent Zandri hails from the future." --The New York Times “Sensational . . . masterful . . . brilliant.” -...

DIDN'T YOUR PARENTS WARN YOU NOT TO PICK UP HITCHHIKERS? On a rainy morning, PI Dick Moonlight decides to pick up soaked-to-the-bone hitchhiker--an attractive young lady who not only has a deadly story to tell, but leads Moonlight on a chase that could cost him his life. From New York Times bestselling Thriller and Shamus Award winning author Vincent Zandri comes yet another short thriller that you can devour in one sitting. For fans of Robert B. Parker, Michael Connelly, JR Rain, Joe Lansdale and more. Scroll up and grab this thriller now. Non-stop action. - I Love a Mystery ***** Vincent ...

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 ...

IS THE SOUTH POLE HOME TO AN ANCIENT CIVILIZATION HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF YEARS OLD? AND WHY IS THE VATICAN WILLING TO KILL FOR IT? After being hunted down at an eatery in Rome by a young female archaeologist, Chase suddenly finds himself on the run from a Vatican priest who wants them both dead. But what the treasure hunter is about to find out is that evidence exists of a previously unknown pyramid that's not only billions of years old, but that contains the truth about human existence on earth and God in heaven. From NY Times Thriller Award winning author Vincent Zandri. Grab this pulse...

The serial killer takes on many guises. But what happens when you unknowingly take him as your most trusted and loyal husband? Pathological is proof that even though you think you know your spouse inside and out, you might not really know him at all. This is the first of many Digital Shorts from Vincent Zandri.

Jude Parish is afraid. The former violent crimes cop turned best-selling true crime author has a fear-filled demon lodged inside of him. A demon so real he can only imagine a slimy reptilian beast with scaly skin, black eyes, and razor-sharp fangs having taken up residence inside the place where his once confident and fearless soul resided.

"True Stories" is one of Vincent Zandri's most anthologized short stories. Based on the true story of Zandri having tackled and apprehended a car thief who was rampaging through his upstate New York neighborhood, this literary thriller begins with a 'seed of truth' around which grow invented circumstances - the result being a clever mesh of truth and creation.

A young U.S. Army officer who's served in Afghanistan finds himself suffering from intermittent bouts of "hysterical" temporary blindness due to impossible and deadly orders he was forced to obey by high command in the field. When he's reunited with his fiancée in a military hospital in Germany after being separated for more than year, the couple are encouraged by doctors to travel to Venice, Italy together.

BE CAREFUL WHO YOU PLAY A PRACTICAL JOKE ON. IT COULD COST YOU YOUR LIFE. When a drunken man named Chuck (aka Chuckles) decides to play a joke on his barfly buddy, Timmy (aka Buddha), by drawing a rather accurate rendering of the male anatomy on Buddha's dusty black BMW, all hell breaks loose. You see, it only takes a couple of minutes for Chuckles to realize he's created the stunning artwork on the wrong car. In fact, the car belongs to an underworld executioner known only as Rod Last Name Not Known. What follows is Chuckles and his buddy, Jones, being kidnapped by Rod and made to endure ...

"EVERYONE HAS A PLAN UNTIL THEY PUNCHED IN THE FACE!" When ex-con, Timmy Duva, nearly T-bones a Range Rover that happens to be driven by a man named, Dave Hart who, once upon a time, was the grade school bully, it’s like decades haven’t passed. Hart is entirely pissed off and is looking for a fight. Not wanting to destroy his parole, the very muscular Timmy backs off. Until he finds out that while he was suffering through a seven year stretch in the joint for killing a barroom sucker-puncher with a far too perfectly-executed left hook, Dave and his wife were hooking up. That’s when ...

THE THRILLER AND SHAMUS AWARD WINNING SERIES! When PI Dick Moonlight agrees to serve as the designated post-operative procedure driver for his sometime sidekick, Roland Hills, aka, Fat Elvis, little does he know that what awaits him inside the Albany Surgical Center is one of the most dangerous and bizarre hostage situations possible. Not only does a stunningly beautiful female inmate who's been transferred to the facility for a small operation shoot her law enforcement captors in cold blood, she or he as it turns out, won't agree to release any hostages until the doctors agree to give her ...