Richard Dick Moonlight Books
Fans of L.J. Sellers, Detective Jackson series, Michael Connelly, Harry Bosch, James Patterson, private investigator mysteries, and hard-boiled thrillers will enjoy MOONLIGHT FALLS (Dick Moonlight series).... Albany, New York, is the setting of Vincent Zandri’s paranoid thriller (in the Hitchcock tradition) about Richard “Dick” Moonlight, former APD detective turned private investigator/massage therapist, who believes he killed Scarlet Montana, his illicit lover and wife of his ex-boss Chief of Detectives Jake Montana. The dilemma ... Moonlight doesn’t remember what happened!
Dick Moonlight is dead for real this time. Thanks to a trio of Obama-masked thugs in a dark downtown Albany alley, he’s purchased a one-way ticket to the Pearly Gates—that is, until he feels his floating spirit painfully pulled back into his bruised but breathing body. And that’s when the real trouble starts. A private detective with a short-term memory problem due to a wayward self-inflicted slug, Moonlight knows he’s still in danger. Now he just needs to know why. And he’s got plenty of enemies to keep him guessing—the Albany police, the local mob, even the latest love of his life, Lola, can’t be trusted. Only his Vietnam-vet best friend, Georgie, is on the level. But it seems the goons who tried to take him out have bigger fish to fry—chiefly Moonlight’s latest client, Peter Czech, a handicapped nuclear engineer with a mysterious Russian heritage. Czech had something—a box—the gang believes is now in Moonlight’s possession, and they’re willing to get it any deadly way they can. Problem is, Moonlight doesn’t recall Czech giving him any box—of course, 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. The Cold War is heating up once again in Vincent Zandri’s latest thriller. Moonlight Rises is a fast-paced, whip- smart tale of a guy who can’t always remember getting into trouble—and can’t seem to stay out of it.
Private Investigator Dick Moonlight returns to chase down a cop gone bad in the next installment of author Vincent Zandri’s clever and cunning Moonlight series. Moonlight has hit some turbulence. Sure, his bar burned to the ground; his significant other, Lola, left him for another man; the private eye business is slow; and his evenings are now spent with his new pal, Jack Daniels. But this is real turbulence—in a plane, going down fast, and he’s waking up handcuffed to an FBI agent. How he got there is a little fuzzy, thanks to the sliver of a .22 caliber hollow-point bullet lodged in his brain. Once on the ground, and after a few bumps and bruises, things become clearer and more dangerous. Thinking he’s been brought to FBI headquarters for drunk-dialing the IRS, Moonlight learns that he’s got some unfinished business: his last case, which had him up against Russian mobsters in search of a zip drive loaded with government secrets, isn’t exactly closed. The cop who was supposed to deliver the goods to the FBI went rogue, bringing along a crooked agent and Moonlight’s ex, and now he’s out to sell the hardware to the highest bidder. The FBI wants Moonlight’s help in tracking down the trio—all the way to Florence, Italy—and wooing Lola into handing over the zip drive. He’s just going to have to outwit, outrun, and outshoot the Russian thugs who have their own big plans for the zip drive, and for Moonlight.
In Murder by Moonlight , Vincent Zandri’s cunning detective Dick Moonlight returns with his toughest case yet: proving an open-and-shut murder investigation isn’t over at all. Joan Parker is the last woman private eye Dick Moonlight would ever expect to see in his Albany office. From the right side of the tracks—neighboring Bethlehem—she bears her upper class upbringing as effortlessly as a string of pearls. She also bears a scar running down her head and face—a brutal reminder of the ax attack that took the life of her husband. Her twenty-one-year-old son, Christopher, now sits in jail charged with the crime. According to the official report—based on Joan’s answers to police when they arrived at the house and found her barely alive—she identified Christopher as the culprit. But sitting in Moonlight’s office, she reveals that she has no recollection of the event, yet is certain of one thing: Christopher didn’t do it. Moonlight knows a thing or two about being nearly dead. And he also knows the tragedy of the police jumping to the wrong conclusions—a past case of a falsely accused client still haunts him—so he agrees to take the job and get to the truth of what happened that day. At first the trail of clues—from the crime scene to Joan’s original accusation—keeps the finger pointed at Christopher. But soon Moonlight turns up something he never expected, something more sinister than anything he’s ever come up against.
Sometimes a man who goes missing should stay missing.... 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 MFA in Writing 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 the truths about everyone who has ever been involved with Roger Walls are revealed, Moonlight finds himself wanting to run away as fast as his legs will take him. One thing he can't outrun, however, are bullets.
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, comes a thriller for fans of Stephen King, Blake Crouch, Dean Wesley Smith, and more. A nightmare that haunts him like the bone-shattering howl of a werewolf, and that takes place under the cover of a full moon! Scroll up and grab your thrilling copy now!!!
MOONLIGHT WEEPS - 2015 Shamus Award Best Original Paperback P.I. Novel and 2015 ITW Award Winner for Best Original Paperback
Can Moonlight convince the cops he's not responsible for a shipment of illicit drugs smuggled onto a plane bound for Rome? Or will he get himself killed in the process? In Moonlight Breaks Bad, the "head-case" detective tries to escape Albany, NY and the memory of his beloved Lola altogether, for a new job in Rome, Italy, as a house-detective at a 5-Star hotel. But when an Italian beauty lures him into joining the "mile-high club" while his feet are still firmly planted on the ground, Moonlight suddenly finds himself the focus of a drug smuggling event that involves not only a crooked band of TSA members, but also the mafia. From NEW YORK TIMES and USA TODAY Bestselling author, Vincent Zandri, comes the next installment in the internationally acclaimed Dick Moonlight, PI series. For fans of Charlie Huston, Don Winslow, and Harlan Coben, the Dick Moonlight series is pure noir, tossed against a backdrop of hard-boiled action, with some romantic/suspense tossed into the mix. Scroll up and grab your copy today. "Tough, stylish, heartbreaking." --Don Winslow, bestselling author of Savages
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 a sex change. What follows is a volatile mess of viscous gun play, desperate hostages, and anti-police protestors. And did we mention the whole thing is being streamed live on Facebook? From New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author Vincent Zandri, comes the 9th episode in the Thriller and Shamus Award Winning series. For fans of bestselling hard-boiled mystery and suspense writers like Robert B. Parker, Michael Connelly, Lawrence Block, Don Winslow, and Charlie Huston. "The action never wanes." --Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinal "Gritty, fast-paced, lyrical and haunting." --Harlan Coben, bestselling author of Six Years "Tough, stylish, heartbreaking." --Don Winslow, bestselling author of Savages "Non-stop action." --I Love a Mystery
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. For lovers of hard-boiled, pulp fiction, especially that of Robert B. Parker, Charlie Huston, and John D. MacDonald, comes a short, sweet, piece of Dick Moonlight you can read on the way to work or over your lunch break. The package even includes a free lengthy sample of the ITW Thriller and PWA Shamus Award winning Dick Moonlight PI novel, MOONLIGHT WEEPS! From the New York Times, USA Today, and Amazon Overall No. 1 bestselling author, Vincent Zandri.
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 package of toilet paper and they're willing to fight for it with their semi-automatics. What follows is a total train wreck of a thriller that will keep you glued to your seat during your lunch hour, or on your commute home, or heck, even in the bathroom. This Dick Moonlight PI short thriller is for fans of Robert B. Parker, Jim Crumley, Ed McBain, and more. Read it and then binge the entire bestselling ITW Thriller and PWA Shamus Award winning series. Grab your Killer Copy now!!!
Hollywood is just another word for Hell on Earth! When Dick Moonlight PI and his professional impersonator sidekick, Fat Elvis, uncover the head of a decapitated, long blond-haired woman under the floorboards of an under-construction luxury home, they come into contact with a husband-and-wife construction team who also fancy themselves Hollywood filmmakers. Only, it turns out that the filmmakers aren’t interested in making romcoms, but instead, snuff films. 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. For fans of Joe R. Landsdale, Michael Connelly, Ace Atkins, Robert B. Parker, and more, New York Times and USA Today bestselling ITW Thriller and PWA Shamus Award-winning author Vincent Zandri delivers another novel in the gritty, fast-paced Dick Moonlight PI series that promises to keep you up all night.
For Dick Moonlight, Just Staying Alive is the Best Revenge! When a drop-dead gorgeous female TV news reporter is hauled into Moonlight's office by two cops carrying an envelope of cash along with orders from Chief Homicide Detective Nick Miller to babysit her now that she's able to finger two Russian gangsters in the brazen murder of a local African American bodega owner, Moonlight not only finds his hands full, but he also smells a rat. Teaming up with Fat 1977 Elvis, Moonlight makes it his mission to find the truth behind the reporter's story. Critical Acclaim for Books by Vincent Zandri: “Sensational…masterful…brilliant.” — New York Post “(A) chilling tale of obsessive love from Thriller Award-winner Zandri…Riveting.” — Publishers Weekly “…Oh, what a story it is…Riveting…A terrific old school thriller.” — Booklist “Starred Review” “Zandri does a fantastic job with this story. Not only does he scare the reader, but the horror show he presents also scares the man who is the definition of the word “tough.” — Suspense Magazine “( The Innocent ) is a thriller that has depth and substance, wickedness and compassion.” — The Times-Union (Albany) “The action never wanes.” — Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel “Gritty, fast-paced, lyrical and haunting.” —Harlan Coben, New York Times bestselling author of Six Years “Tough, stylish, heartbreaking.” —Don Winslow, New York Times bestselling author of Savages and Cartel “A tightly crafted, smart, disturbing, elegantly crafted complex thriller…I dare you to start it and not keep reading.” —MJ Rose, New York Times bestselling author of Halo Effect and Closure “A classic slice of raw pulp noir…” —William Landay, New York Times bestselling author of Defending Jacob