Anyone remember those old Hitchcock thrillers? My favorite was The Birds back in '63. I never looked at another black bird the same after that.
There's a new book out called Moonlight Falls (R.J. Buckley Publishing) by Vincent Zandri that will just blow you away. If you are a Hitchcock fan, you'll absolutely love this book. The setting is Albany, New York, where Richard "Dick" Moonlight, former APD detective turned private investigator/massage therapist (I kid you not), who believed he killed Scarlet Montana, his illicit lover and wife of his ex-boss Chief of Detectives Jake Montana. The dilemma is Moonlight doesn't remember what happened. After surviving a botched suicide attempt, he lived precariously on the fence between life and death due to the remnant of a .22 caliber bullet lodged in his brain. With the little piece of lead pressing up against his crebral cortex, he knew he couldn't always trust himself to make the correct decisions. He also couldn't trust his short-term memory.
When his sometimes lover, the beautiful Scarlet Montana, called him up one night, he knew he should have resisted, but the temptation was too strong. Later that same night, when Scarlet's body was discovered, Moonlight received a call by her police chief husband to oversee a special investation into a murder Moonlight may well have committed.
It's an exciting fast-paced thriller I know readers in Virginia Beach will just enjoy.
Vincent Zandri is an award-winning novelist, essayist and freelance photojournalist. Besides Moonlight Falls, he also wrote and published As Catch Can (Delacorte) and was touted in two pre-publication articles by Publishers Weekly and was called "brilliant" upon its publication by The New York Post. The Boston Herald attributed it as “the most arresting first crime novel to break into print this season.”
Other novels include Godchild (Bantam/Dell) and Permanence (NPI). Translated into several languages including Japanese and the Dutch, Zandri’s novels have also been sought out by numerous major movie producers, including Heyday Productions and DreamWorks. Moonlight Falls is his fourth novel. He is the author of the blogs, Dangerous Dispatches and Embedded in Africa for RT ( Russia Today TV) which have been syndicated and translated in several different languages throughout the world. He also writes for other global publications, including Culture 11, Globalia, Globalspec and more.
Zandri’s nonfiction has appeared in New York Newsday, Hudson Valley Magazine, Game and Fish Magazine and others, while his essays and short fiction have been featured in many journals including Fugue, Maryland Review and Orange Coast Magazine. He holds an M.F.A. in Writing from Vermont College and is a 2010 International Thrillerl. Writer’s Awards panel judge. Zandri currently divides his time between New York and Europe. He is the drummer for the Albany-based punk band to Blisterz. You can visit his website at www.vincentzandri.com or his blog at www.vincentzandri.blogspot.com.
Zandri will be on virtual book tour in February and March to talk about his new book. If you'd like to see where he'll be appearing or read an excerpt of his book, visit his official tour page here.
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Hitchcock! Oh, I am a huge fan of Hitchcock. This one looks really good. Best of luck with your book, Vincent! GL
Thanks Gale....My work has always been compared to Hitchcock which has always been a huge ego boost. You might also like As Catch Can which was also called a "Neo-Hitchcockian thriller" by Publishers Weekly....Cheers Vin
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