Vincent Zandri Books in Order

An early Zandri novel that already shows his interest in pressure, emotion, and the damage people carry with them. A darker story about what lasts and what refuses to disappear.

Prison warden Jack "Keeper" Marconi is still reeling from his wife's death when a notorious cop-killer escapes with inside help. Suddenly Keeper looks like the perfect patsy, and proving his innocence may cost him everything.

Jack Marconi is pulled into a dangerous search that takes him into Mexico and back toward the grief he cannot shake. What begins as a rescue turns into a hard, violent reckoning.

Former Albany detective Dick Moonlight thinks he may have killed his lover, the wife of his old boss. With a bullet fragment in his brain and gaps in his memory, he has to solve the crime before it destroys him.

Thirty years after she and her twin sister were abducted, Rebecca Underhill begins receiving strange messages and terrifying paintings that point back to the man who ruined her childhood. The past is not done with her yet.

Construction company owner Ava Spike Harrison goes looking for a vanished asbestos contractor before a school job turns into disaster. Her search uncovers deceit, greed, and murder in Albany's blue-collar shadows.

Beaten nearly to death in an Albany alley, Dick Moonlight wakes with more questions than memories. Somewhere in his fractured mind is the key to a top-secret box, and several killers want it first.

A dark suspense novel built around fear, memory, and a threat that feels both intimate and unstoppable. Zandri keeps the tension close and raw.

After a rough patch that includes booze, heartbreak, and a near plane crash, Dick Moonlight is dragged into a case involving the Russian mob and stolen government secrets. The trail leads from Albany to Florence, and Lola is right in the middle of it.

Dick Moonlight is forced to prove that an apparently solved murder case is anything but finished. The deeper he pushes, the more dangerous the truth becomes.

A nonfiction collection that gathers personal pieces and reported observations in Zandri's direct, conversational style. Less plot, more voice and experience.

When Dick Moonlight investigates mutilated carcasses near Albany Rural Cemetery, the job turns eerie fast. Soon he is facing a nightmare that feels less like crime and more like legend come alive.

Dick Moonlight gets tangled in a case tied to writers, secrets, and bad intentions. What starts as a strange assignment turns into another hard-boiled spiral of obsession and danger.

Jack Marconi investigates a spoiled restaurateur accused of trying to murder his schoolteacher girlfriend. As the badly injured woman starts remembering what happened, someone decides silence is worth killing for.

When Florence police ask Chase Baker to find a missing archaeologist, the trail leads to the Shroud of Turin and a possible hunt for the remains of Jesus. It is the series opener and a big, pulpy relic chase.

A candid nonfiction account of living through a teenage son's severe, recurring depression. Zandri writes openly about family strain, fear, and trying to keep going.

Chase heads into the Amazon in search of a legendary golden aircraft said to have been given to the Incas by aliens. The jungle, terrorists, and a priceless secret stand in his way.

A travel journalism piece that turns a journey in India into something vivid, uneasy, and deeply personal. More about experience than postcard beauty.

Trying to outrun his past, Dick Moonlight takes a job in Rome as a hotel detective. Instead, he gets pulled into sex, smuggling, and a brutal criminal scheme that proves geography cannot save him.

A prominent surgeon hires Dick Moonlight to protect his son from a rape conviction. But the deeper Moonlight digs, the murkier the truth becomes, and somebody wants the whole thing buried for good.

Chase Baker goes after another explosive historical mystery, this time involving a boy wrapped in prophecy, danger, and competing forces that want to control what he means.

A new Chase Baker adventure ties relic hunting to the shadow of Abraham Lincoln and a curse people take very seriously. History, family, and danger collide fast.

A dark standalone thriller about obsession, damage, and a life that keeps tipping toward catastrophe. Zandri writes it with a hard, relentless edge.

A short nonfiction portrait of Florence, blending travel writing, affection for the city, and the personal perspective of a writer who knows it well.

Chase Baker is lured by a beautiful admirer, kidnapped, and pushed into a race to find a legendary cave tied to Leonardo's inspiration. Rival intelligence interests and old secrets make the hunt lethal.

Chase is hired to find the mysterious seventh codicil of the Bible before extremists can open it and unleash catastrophe. The result is part relic hunt, part supernatural pulp thriller.

Dick Moonlight takes on another sweaty, ill-tempered Albany case where everyone seems to want something from him. The heat rises fast, and so does the danger.

A dark, tightly wound thriller about dangerous attraction, bad judgment, and the kind of secrets that rot a whole small world from the inside.

Rebecca Underhill's past is still smoldering, and peace never lasts for long. This sequel keeps the pressure on memory, grief, and the fear that trauma is never really over.

A suspense novel where the past creeps back in with quiet menace and very real consequences. Zandri builds dread patiently, then twists hard.

Jack Marconi is hired to investigate a beautiful woman who may be running a prostitution and fraud scheme. In one of Albany's roughest neighborhoods, the job quickly turns into a tangle of sex, cash, and murder.

A short hard-boiled crime story where an ordinary evening turns risky fast. In a Tony and Stan story, simple plans rarely stay simple.

Chase Baker goes after a legendary cache of Dutch diamonds in another fast, pulpy hunt through danger, history, and rivals who want the prize for themselves.

When the spear that pierced Christ is stolen, Chase Baker is drawn into a hunt involving the Vatican, a surviving Nazi, and the threat of a new Fourth Reich. It is one of his biggest relic cases yet.

Keeper Marconi takes on a case where attraction, money, and danger are tightly stitched together. The closer he gets to the truth, the more lethal the style becomes.

A struggling writer thinks experience will make him better on the page. Then a beautiful woman offers him a job as her handyman, and the work includes murder.

A new case hits Dick Moonlight from more than one direction, personal, legal, and deadly. What looks manageable at first quickly turns into another Albany mess he may not survive cleanly.

The Handyman sinks deeper into a world where lust and violence feed each other. Every choice promises pleasure, and every promise hides a trap.

The Handyman's slide continues as desire, fame, and bloodshed start feeding the same obsession. He wanted material for a novel. He may have traded away much more.

After two convicted cop-killers escape from Clinton Correctional, Jack Marconi is asked to bring them in alive. The chase soon exposes a deeper web of greed, rot, and political corruption.

Steve Jobz faces a killer with a disturbing fascination for bodies and death. What starts as a crime investigation turns dark, strange, and very personal.

The first volume in Zandri's Cahier line, inspired by the old habit of carrying a notebook everywhere. It is designed for handwritten ideas, scenes, and first drafts.

A follow-up volume in the Cahier line, meant for writers, note-takers, and anyone who likes drafting by hand. Simple, portable, and made to be filled.

Another Cahier notebook volume, built around the idea that good pages often start long before they reach a screen. A practical space for notes, scenes, and fragments.

A compact notebook entry in Zandri's Cahier series for longhand writing, journaling, and sketching out stories. It is a working tool rather than a traditional book.

Volume five continues Zandri's Cahier concept, giving writers a simple place to catch ideas before they disappear. Old-school in the best way.

Sky Marshal Sam Savage boards a flight expecting a routine trip and finds romance, hijackers, and bombs instead. The only thing between the passengers and disaster is Sam himself.

A lean, dark short thriller built around shock value and a nasty hook. Zandri wastes no time getting to the trouble.

A woman slowly realizes the husband she trusts may actually be a serial killer. Short, grim, and built on the fear of not really knowing the person beside you.

A nonfiction collection of reflections on writing, publishing, travel, and the everyday chaos of the working author's life. Personal, direct, and practical.

The Handyman's world of lust, manipulation, and murder gets even more unstable when a new woman upends the balance. In this series, attraction is never just attraction.

Another dangerous episode in the Handyman saga, where sex, control, and ambition keep driving the narrator toward choices he cannot undo.

The Handyman is surrounded by women he desires, fears, and badly misunderstands. That combination keeps turning passion into leverage, and leverage into bloodshed.

A younger Chase Baker is drawn into a dangerous relic hunt that blends history, action, and the first signs of the daring adventurer he will become.

A tense standalone thriller built around explosive stakes, bad choices, and a race against violence. Zandri keeps the fuse short from the first page.

Punished for his off-duty behavior, Sam Savage is reassigned to the Amtrak line. Then intelligence points to a terrorist on board, and the train becomes a speeding death trap.

Steve Jobz investigates a case that links a flower-shop owner, wealthy media figures, and crimes from the past. Nothing about this one is as innocent as it first appears.

Zandri's straight-talking guide to building a writing career in both traditional and independent publishing. It mixes memoir, advice, and hard-earned perspective.

Former Ranger and Sky Marshal Sam Savage is sent after a deadly extremist cell in Southeast Asia. The mission takes him from Bangkok into the jungles and tunnels of Vietnam, where survival gets brutally close.

A notebook-style volume in Zandri's Cahier line, created for longhand drafting, notes, and daily writing. It is less a story than a space to start one.

A short thriller with a true-crime edge, built around delusion, control, and the kind of ego that turns monstrous fast.

A near-future thriller that throws Tanya Teal into a world of corporate warfare and ruthless power. In this system, being expendable can be a death sentence.

Fresh out of prison, novelist Jonathan Kingsley retreats to a caretaker's job and hopes for a quieter life. Instead he steps into a tense, old-school thriller full of temptation, paranoia, and trouble.

PI Steve Jobz expects an easy extortion case involving a school lunch lady. Instead he finds a sophisticated con, a murdered principal, and a job that turns deadly in a hurry.

A new Marconi case digs into family loyalty, old damage, and the violence sons inherit from their fathers. The deeper Keeper goes, the less anyone around him looks innocent.

A desperate title for a desperate short thriller. Zandri turns one urgent demand into a sharp, dangerous chain reaction.

The Handyman returns to a world of obsession, sex, and murder where old lovers and new demands collide. Desire is still the bait, but survival is the real problem.

A haunting psychological thriller built around absence, memory, and the possibility that someone missing is not truly gone. Zandri keeps the tension tight and the answers just out of reach.

Jack Marconi is pulled back into the brutal logic of prison escape, pursuit, and political pressure. Nobody knows this world better, or trusts it less.

A short suspense piece about control, freedom, and what happens when a person or system starts operating by its own cold logic.

A tight short thriller driven by perception, obsession, and the possibility that the mind telling the story cannot be trusted.

A collection of short thrillers built around pressure, bad choices, and the moments when survival pushes people past the line.

Dick Moonlight collides with a more modern kind of disaster when attention spreads faster than the facts. The jokes are sharper, but the danger is still very real.

A psychological suspense novel set around a quiet place with anything but quiet beneath the surface. Secrets, memory, and menace ripple outward until no one feels safe.

A Frank Tassi crime-family thriller where old sins, family ties, and survival all pull in the wrong direction. Nobody gets absolution here.

A short suspense story built around watching, being watched, and the danger of what appears in the frame at the wrong time.

A quick, sharp thriller where the blow that matters most may not be the physical one. Zandri keeps this one mean and compact.

A grimy grifter tale that mixes urban toughness, bad deals, and criminal momentum. The title promises no elegance, and the story does not fake any.

A household argument becomes something far more dangerous in this dark short. Zandri is good at showing how quickly private tension can turn public and bloody.

A compact suspense story about the past refusing to stay buried. Whether the ghosts are real or remembered, they still have teeth.

A dark short thriller built around objectification, obsession, and the creepiness of being treated like something owned rather than someone alive.

Casey Smith wakes aboard a spaceship bound for Mars, cast as a security officer in yet another metaverse nightmare. Soon he is battling a deadly alien threat in deep space.

Dead bank robber Casey Smith wakes inside a metaverse version of Deadwood in 1889, with Wyatt Earp on his trail. It is an afterlife thriller with a noir heart and a wild concept.

Dick Moonlight is back in Albany, bruised, half-lucky, and walking straight into another case soaked in violence. As the bodies and lies pile up, his damaged memory may be the most dangerous thing in the room.

A short thriller set under bright surfaces and darker motives. The location may feel sunny, but the story does not.

Frank Tassi's criminal world collides with financial scrutiny and lethal retaliation. In this family, even paperwork can start a war.

A bleak, high-concept short about despair, belief, and the dangerous wish that everything should just stop. Quietly unsettling.

A lower middle-class couple, a mailman and a housewife, suddenly find themselves trapped in the middle of a Mexican cartel drug war. Zandri turns everyday American life into a very bad place to be.

Casey Smith lands in a warped 2020 where he is programmed to be a priest and trapped in a cycle of violence linked to a home intruder who keeps getting released. The metaverse gets meaner here.

Another Chase Baker relic chase sends him toward ancient secrets and danger inside the Egyptian desert. Expect traps, history, and a hero who never walks away from trouble.

Chase Baker heads to Europe with a secret SS diary and a map that may lead to Nazi gold worth billions. The hunt is tangled up with war, extremists, and the promise of something even bigger than treasure.

A dark suspense novel about the things people try to slip past themselves and others. Quiet on the surface, dangerous underneath.

A stripped-down thriller about a murderer and the damage that follows in his wake. Fast, direct, and mercilessly focused.

Casey wakes in Jerusalem during Passover in AD 31 and finds himself facing a terrible choice around the crucifixion of Jesus. Short, strange, and high-stakes even by Meta Man standards.

Steve Jobz takes a seemingly ordinary case tied to a tradesman and finds the usual Zandri result, a darker, nastier problem hiding in plain sight.

Identity, deception, and dual lives collide in this short suspense piece. The title tells you the central problem, but not how ugly it gets.

Tony and Stan step into trouble that stretches beyond a simple trip from one place to another. Smuggling, risk, and bad judgment make a quick crime setup go sideways.

Chase goes after yet another powerful Christian relic, with enemies closing in from every direction. Faith, greed, and pulp adventure collide at full speed.

A suspense story built around a woman, a secret, and the certainty that concealment never lasts. Zandri keeps the mystery intimate and sharp.

A Steve Jobz case steeped in judgment, power, and the danger of people who believe they get to decide everything. Fast, pulpy, and pointed.

A short, punchy thriller with a dangerous central figure and the kind of pressure Zandri likes to spring fast. Expect menace, momentum, and a nasty turn.

A high-altitude nightmare with a title that tells you exactly why nobody on this flight is relaxing. Zandri turns a cramped setting into pure panic.

Steve Jobz tangles with leverage, secrets, and someone who knows exactly what fear is worth. The deeper he digs, the costlier the truth becomes.

When a missing bride's parents hire Keeper Marconi and Blood to find their daughter after she is left at the altar, the case pulls them into Albany's underworld. Weddings rarely get this ugly.

Nazi treasure, deadly rivals, and another historical trail Chase cannot resist. The prize is immense, and so is the danger.

Chase Baker faces one of the series' wildest premises yet, where Nazi obsession and impossible technology crash together. It is history chase, pulp thriller, and conspiracy ride in one.

Moonlight stumbles into another life-or-death case where his bad luck and battered brain are tested to the limit. The title promises final stops and hard landings, and the story delivers both.

A body changes everything in this later Marconi thriller. What should be simple evidence turns into another hard-boiled spiral of lies, violence, and bad truths.

The Rebecca Underhill trilogy closes with the past still clawing its way forward. Buried truths, old fear, and unfinished trauma finally come to a head.

Keeper Marconi takes on a case where fear, rumor, and something all too real begin to blur. The name sounds like folklore, but the danger is human and immediate.

An everyday object becomes the center of a short, eerie suspense story. Zandri has fun with the idea that the familiar can turn wrong without warning.

A hard, dirty short thriller built around someone who deals in what other people throw away. In Zandri's hands, refuse usually hides something worse.

A younger Chase Baker is thrown into a dangerous plot involving an assassin and the President. It is a fast prequel-style adventure with history, risk, and plenty of momentum.