Dick Moonlight

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Created by Vincent Zandri

Poor boy. A .22 caliber hollow-point bullet rattling around in his noggin (thanks to a botched suicide attempt) isn’t the only problem former Albany Police Department detective turned cash-starved private eye RICHARD “DICK” MOONLIGHT has, but it’s a biggie. As a result he suffers from scrambled memories, short term memory loss, jittery judgment and occasional blackouts plus the knowledge — when he remembers —  that a sudden jolt could kill him instantly.

It apparently hasn’t affected this “head-case” detective’s sex life, though.

And keep it up he does. I mean, if he can survive a bullet bouncing around his skull, you gotta figure he can probably handle an occasional roll in the hay. It’s certainly not sartorial slender that attracts the ladies — a black leather coat that seems to be his chief (and only) fashion statement, and he bears a slight resemblance to Bruce Willis.

And so he perseveres, aided his sometimes reluctant assistant Fat Elvis (a professional Elvis impersonator), Dick wades through a pulpy smorgasbord of lying clients, werewolves, snuff film makers, bone-crunching violence, sexy hitchhikers and… literal agents. sometimes he even gets paid.

But just in case this PI gig doesn’t quite work out, Dick is also a licensed massage therapist.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

The only thing more overheated than Vincent Zandri ‘s books may be his knack for BSP — everywhere I turn, I get the breathless hard sell, where he (or his “publicist”) is constantly comparing him to Michael Connelly, Harlan Coben, Joe Landsdale, Charlie Huston, John D. MacDonald and Robert B. Parker. Fortunately, his books are worth it, and it all seems to have worked out for Zandri — he’s become a New York Times, USA Today, and “Amazon Overall No. 1 Thriller” bestseller, and has nabbed both Shamus (for Moonlight Weeps, a Dick Moonlight novel) and an ITW Thriller awards. Originally a reporter for New York Newsday and The Times-Union in Albany, New York and the holder of an MFA from Vermont College, he currently lives in upstate New York, where he’s churned out a steady stream of hard-charging, hard-boiled novels and short stories over the last twenty years or so for assorted publishers, including Delacorte, Dell, Down & Out Books, Thomas & Mercer, Polis Books and himself. Most feature tough guy detectives of one sort or another. Along the way he’s accumulated blurbs and glowing reviews from Publishers Weekly, BookList, The Boston Herald, The San Diego Union-Tribune and The New York Post. He also writes about Chase Baker, a modern day “Renaissance Man” and Indiana Jones-style adventurer/private eye who lives in Florence, Italy; Jack Marconi, a former prison warden turned P.I.;  and Steve Jobz, an investigator for the New York State Department of Unemployment Insurance Fraud.

UNDER OATH

  • “Gritty, fast-paced, lyrical and haunting.”
    — Harlan Coben
  • “Tough, stylish, heartbreaking.”
    — Don Winslow
  • “Vincent Zandri is one of the most acclaimed thriller writers working today!”
    — Publishers Weekly

BOOKS

Usually I divide this section into Novels and Short Fiction, but due to the dizzying slew of reissued, revised, re-edited and possibly re-titles editions and formats, and the varying lengths (Is 74 pages a novel? A novella? A short story?), they’re just listed here as “Books,” and presented roughly in their Amazon order. I think… 

COLLECTIONS

FURTHER INVESTIGATION

Report respectfully submitted by Kevin Burton Smith.

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