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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.

When ex-con and novelist JA Kingsley loses everything he's ever cared about, including his wife and teenage daughter, he abandons his home in order to start anew, write a new book, and, most of all, restart his fractured life. Traveling to the Adirondack Mountains, he checks himself into The Loon Lake Inn, a peaceful lake-side resort. For a brief moment, he feels at peace with himself and a world that has seemingly turned its back on him. But what he doesn’t expect is the lurid attraction that ignites between him and the wife of the owner of the Loon Lake Inn.

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.

"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.

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.

DON'T MESS WITH BINGO NIGHT!!!! When two losers working for a floral supply outfit get it into their heads that they can rob the creepy old home for the elderly which is located directly across the street from their place of employment on Bingo Night, it sounds like an easy score. Too easy. Because what they don't realize is that just because people are old, doesn't mean they still don't have some fight left in them. In fact, in the case of Bingo Night, these elderly people have more than fight in them. They are barbarians. Originally published in Pulp Metal Magazine in two parts, Bingo ...

LOVE STINKS! BUT LOVE CAN ALSO KILL! When Moonlight and his sort of loyal sidekick, 1977 Fat Elvis, come upon a pretty young lady while fishing off of Moonlight's riverside deck, Elvis decides to serenade her with a song and dance. But when he trips and falls into the river it quickly becomes apparent the Faux King can't swim. That sets in motion a rescue by both Moonlight and the girl that will end up landing the head-case PI and Fat Elvis in hot water. From New York Times and USA Today bestselling Thriller and Shamus Award winning author Vincent Zandri comes yet another unputdownable ...

RULE NO. 1: BEWARE DAMSELS IN DISTRESS...RULE NO. 2: BEWARE DAMSELS IN DISTRESS WHO WANT TO KILL! From the ITW Thriller Award and Shamus Award Winning Series... When a sexy dame shows up unannounced at Dick Moonlight's office begging for help over a man who wants to kill her, she makes the black leather coat-clad PI an offer he can't possibly refuse. But in typical Moonlight fashion, he's listening not to the head on his shoulders, but instead the head...Well, you know the rest! What results is a whole lot of mayhem and bullet blasting inside the dark concrete jungle of Albany, New York. ...

Originally published in Conor Friedersdorf's Culture 11 Magazine, New York Times and USA Today Bestselling author Vincent Zandri's BREAKDOWN recounts the story of a teenage boy who suffers his first nervous breakdown due to a genetic condition known as Severe and Recurring Non-Psychotic Depression. Suggested reading for parents of children who suffer from depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, and other emotional and psychologically debilitating diseases. Praise for Vincent Zandri: "Sensational...Masterful...Brilliant." --New York Post "The action never wanes." --Fort Lauderdale Sun-...

"SOMETIMES BEING BEHIND BARS IS BETTER THAN BREAKING OUT!" When two murderous cop killing cons doing life sentences at New York's Dannemora Maximum Security Prison decide to make dramatic, almost Hollywood style prison break, Jack Marconi, a private investigator and former prison warden, is called in to locate the two killers. But during the course of their investigation in Upstate New York's thick woodlands, what Marconi and his trusted sidekick, Blood, discover going on inside in the basement depths of the maximum security prison, is nothing less than shocking and deadly. For fans of ...

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 ...

DO WEREWOLVES EXIST? DICK MOONLIGHT KNOWS FIRSTHAND. AND IT AIN'T PRETTY! Some things are not as they appear. Especially if you're Dick Moonlight--a P.I. with a piece of .22 caliber hollow-point bullet hopelessly lodged inside his brain, making his sudden death at any given time a real possibility. When he's hired to look into some mysterious carcass mutilations taking place amongst the pines at the historic Albany Rural Cemetery, Moonlight encounters a dark nightmare worse than death. From New York Times and USA bestselling Thriller Award and Shamus Award winning author Vincent Zandri, ...

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.

IT’S ONE THING TO KILL FOR THE SAKE OF YOUR ART. IT’S ANOTHER THING TO BE EXECUTED FOR IT. The day has arrived for New York Times blockbuster bestseller, prolific lover, and Handyman, Victor Casey, to be put to death by the State of New York. As the day progresses and the time he has left gets tighter and tighter, he is paid visits by the women he has loved and lost in The Sex Club. While the prison guards turn the other way as he enjoys the conjugal visits, he also looks back on both his life and the murders he committed, not as a killer, but as a Handyman and a writer who needs to ...

Maybe You've Been Dead for a While, but You Just Don't Know It! After a writer's significant other breaks up with him unexpectedly while dropping him off at the JFK International airport for a flight to Rome, he goes into absolute free-fall. But so does his plane when they hit bad weather. What happens next is entirely out of this world, and just might make you believe in the presence of ghosts. From New York Times Thriller Award winning author, Vincent Zandri, comes a new Twilight Zone-like, serial thriller. Scroll up and grab your exciting copy now!

Long Live the Mummy! It's 1979! Adventurer Young Chase Baker travels to Cairo with his excavator dad and a beautiful assistant named Judy, where they are to uncover the hidden, out-of-this-world secret chambers beneath the Sphinx. What's housed inside the secret chamber? A Mummy that's resurrected!!! Spine tingling adventure, action, and romance for all ages. From NYTimes bestselling Thriller Award winning author, Vincent Zandri. Scroll up to grab your exciting copy now. "The story of Vincent Zandri is the story of our times." --Business Insider "Vincent Zandri hails from the future." --The...

"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...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...