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In the series called “stunning” and “just beautiful”, The Handyman has become an almost cult classic since it was first introduced to fans of steamy romance and mystery two years ago. For those who love E L James, Stephenie Meyer, and Sylvia Day comes a sizzler of a story from New York Times and USA Today best-selling, Thriller Award-winning author Vincent Zandri.

"SAM SAVAGE IS A ONE MAN WRECKING CREW. DON'T FLY THE UNFRIENDLY SKIES WITHOUT HIM." IN THIS FIRST EPISODE OF THE NEW ACTION AND ROMANCE-FILLED PULP THRILLER SERIES: When an unassuming, attractive woman boards a plane for Italy, the last thing she’s thinking about is falling in love. Yet, that’s what happens when she meets the Sky Marshal, Sam Savage. Dressed in his worn leather coat, Levis jeans, and boots, he looks more like an adventurer than a lawman. But Sam Savage is also a prolific lover, as he proves to Mary when they both agree to toss caution to the wind and join the infamous ...

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.

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.

Could You Make $300 Grand in 72 Hours if Your Life Depended On It? Or What if You had $300 Grand in an Online Wallet, but Can't Remember Your Password, Even With a Gun to Your Head? Failed writer and gambleaholic, George Custer, has just been released from a three year stint in county jail after holding up a bodega with an Airsoft pistol. You would think he’d be happy as a clam, but when he just happens to run into Francesco "Frank" Tassi, a local crime boss whom he still owes a ton of money to, George finds himself slapped with an ultimatum he can’t refuse. Come up with the cash in 72 ...

As a veteran of the war in Afghanistan, Nick Angel has seen a lot. But now he sees almost nothing after being struck with PTSD-related blindness resulting from the trauma of his last tour. In an attempt to put the past behind him, he travels to Venice, Italy, with his fiancée, Grace, to recover, reconnect, and rekindle their love. Despite his physical and emotional setbacks, Nick senses something dangerously amiss in Venice, and his hunch proves right when Grace is abducted right in front of him.

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.

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 ...

Sculptor and single mom Rose Conley is haunted by her tragic past and anxious about her uncertain future. She needs to get away from it all. On sabbatical from the college where she teaches art, she and her daughter rent a house for three months in the Adirondack lakeside community of Paradox.

At 38, Ava “Spike” Harrison has been a major player in the local construction industry. She’s also had to rebuild her family business from the bottom up thanks to bad luck and bad fines. So it’s easy to see why OSHA, breathing down her neck on her latest job at Albany’s PS 20, has the contractor on edge. She’s used to putting out fires, but this is about to be a full-on explosion - 300 students at risk for exposure to deadly asbestos, and the asbestos removal contractor, Jimmy Farrell, is nowhere to be found.

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.

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.

WHO WOULD YOU CHOOSE TO SAVE FROM A MADMAN'S BULLET? THE LOVE OF YOUR LIFE OR YOUR CHILD? When an unmarried man, a writer, and a married woman, a decorated cop, who are conducting an affair accidentally run into a man in the supermarket with their shopping cart, the victim becomes more than annoyed. He begins to stalk the couple relentlessly, eventually abducting the cop. There's more than meets the naked eye in this relentless episodic pulp fiction thriller from New York Times and USA Thriller Award winning author, Vincent Zandri. For fans of Michael Connelly, Lawrence Block, Jim Crumley, ...

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 ...

WHEN WE DIE WE DON'T GO TO HEAVEN OR HELL. WE GO TO THE METAVERSE! Writer Casey Smith is dead. He was decapitated after the getaway car he was driving immediately after a bank robbery smashed into the back of a semi. And yet, Casey Smith is very much alive inside the Metaverse. But what he also discovers upon waking up in the Old West town of Deadwood in 1889, is that he is a wanted man for the crimes he committed while alive in the mid-21st century. Bank robbery and 2nd-degree murder. Who's hot on his trail? None other than Wyatt Earp himself! From New York Times and USA Bestselling ...

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.

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 ...

IT'S MARCH 2020. CAN COVID-19 TRULY BE THE DEATH OF DICK MOONLIGHT? PI Dick Moonlight only wants to grab a quick beer and maybe a conversation with a good-looking lady. But now that the COVID-19 pandemic has shut down the world, he's got nowhere to go to have a couple drinks and wish his troubles away. So instead, he ends up at the supermarket to grab a few supplies, including toilet paper. But there is only one package of what's become "paper gold" left, and that's where the trouble begins. It turns out that two twin Russian brothers who are also Russian gangsters, also want that same ...

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.” -...

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 ...