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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.

When Renaissance man and adventurer Chase Baker is contracted by a young rare book dealer to uncover seven metal Bible codices or books which rival the Dead Sea Scrolls in biblical historical significance, he also discovers that the seventh book is sealed with a metal not found on this Earth. A metal so impenetrable it can only be broken by God or Satan. Whatever the case, the breaking of the seventh seal means one thing and one thing only: the end of the world as we know it.

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 "...

HE KILLS FOR HIS ART AND FOR HIS MUSE. BUT NOW HIS MUSE HAS TRIED TO KILL HIM! IT'S TIME FOR REVENGE! In this third and final episode of Season III of the critically acclaimed Handyman, steamy, romance, murder mystery series, bestselling novelist and ex-con, Victor Casey has been the victim of an assassination attempt partially instigated by his love and muse, Stella. Now, as he heels inside the home medical office of a beautiful female plastic surgeon, he plots out his next move, which is nothing less then changing his identity and acting out his final revenge not only on Stella, but on ...

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.

Two Heads are Better than One. Expect When One of Them is Attached to a Psychopath! When PI Steve Jobz wakes up naked in a seedy New Hampshire roadside motel, all four of his limbs bound to the bed posts, he realizes rather quickly that he should not have gotten so drunk the night before. When a pleasant, rather heavy-set Mary Poppins-like British lady lets herself into his room and reminds him of the porn film they made the night before, he soon senses he's about to be blackmailed. The bullets and the lies fly in this new killer thriller by New York Times bestselling Thriller and Shamus ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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 BESTSELLING NOVELIST/KILLER, VICTOR CASEY, UNDO HIS WEB OF SEX, SUBMISSION, SCANDAL, AND MURDER? Casey's first novel, Savage Sins, is a major success. Meanwhile, his lust-filled girlfriend, Stella, has forced his hand in marriage. Now that she owns half the rights to Victor’s intellectual properties, she has him just where she wants him. He's become her slave. But at the same time, a tall blonde detective by the same of Megan Lawless is not only onto Victor’s crimes, she is in the process of seducing Stella. And for the first time in her life, Stella is not only falling head over ...

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

This is how your life ends: Not with a whimper, but a scream! When Jude becomes the accidental witness to a bizarre “kill game” in which the killer, video game designer, and master of disguise, Hector “the Black Dragon” Lennox, insists on recording the screams of his victims prior to shooting them dead, the ex-cop’s life is turned upside down. When Lennox is arrested by the L.G.P.D. and Jude is asked to act as the state’s “star witness”, he has no choice but to fight his demon-fear and take on the role.

When a defeated looking man shows up at Moonlight’s riverfront loft in the middle of the night seeking the P.I.’s services, he does something quite unexpected. He kills himself with a gunshot to the head. After the APD Chief Homicide Detective Nick Miller arrives on the scene, it’s discovered the now dead man was married to a cheating woman who goes by the unlikely name of Virginia Gamble.

Does the Ark of the Covenant, or what’s also known as the Ark of God, truly exist? Adventurer, writer, and treasure hunter, Chase Baker is about to find out, the hard way. Adventurer, Chase Baker is back in the thick of it. This time, he along with his sexy and adventuring archaeologist partner, Dr. Sarah Gibson, are entrusted by both a wealthy financier and an old English, Paris based Biblical scholar to unearth perhaps the greatest archaeological treasure of all time: The Ark of the Covenant. Or what’s also known as the Ark of God.

With Fat Elvis the perfect candidate for a starring role in their new film, Moonlight is hired by the police to go undercover and expose the snuff film operation which, it turns out, is also partly financed by Mexican drug cartel gang members. The stakes and the body count in this hard-boiled thriller are higher than a box office smash hit, and far more deadly.

Adventurer Chase Baker is back in action. He, along with the beautiful daughter of a Hasidic Jew who owns a New York City pawn shop, fly to Europe to uncover a stash of Nazi gold estimated to be worth over $1.5 billion dollars.

Featuring a brand new introduction by the author on how he willingly gave up his birthright as the heir apparent to a multi-million dollar commercial construction firm in order to pursue his writing passion, Pieces of Mind contains essays on topics as diverse as lost love, sex, divorce, coping with a child's severe depression, experiencing Carnival in Venice, to sharing a first beer with your teenage son. But every word is delivered under the umbrella of a full-time fiction writer and freelance journalist trying to make sense of the lush world that surrounds him.

Beware the Big Bad Wolf. He's Coming for You When You Least Expect it. When an art professor mom and her pre-teen daughter rent a quiet house on an idyllic Adirondack lake for a full semester sabbatical, they become the target of two serial killers who believe the women are the reincarnation of a mother and daughter whom they terrorized to death back in the mid-1980s. For fans of Stephen King, Lawrence Block, Joe Konrath, and more, comes a pulse-pounding thriller that combines psychological suspense with pure horror, and intense action--a thriller only New York Times and USA Today ...

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 ...

Money Can't Buy You Love, and it Sure as Hell Can't Save Your Life! When PI Jack Marconi is approached by a handsome, wealthy couple to find their daughter now that she's gone missing moments after being stood up at the altar during her lavish white wedding, the veteran gumshoe is feeling apprehensive about taking on the case. After all, the missing girl is probably just hanging with her friends and crying her eyes out. But when the father of the would-be bride is found killed inside his expensive Mercedes, suddenly Jack smells a rat. From NY Times bestselling Thriller and Shamus Award ...