Kiss of the Bedbug
Published in 2026 by Raven Tale Publishing
Sleep tight. Don’t let the . . .
He calls himself the Vein Assassin, and he’s a serial murderer molded by trauma and driven by a thirst for blood.
She’s Annabeth Krantz, an FBI agent who tracks the killer to a rural Pennsylvania town on which a deadly insect plague had descended. As she digs deeper, she learns what appear to be routine murders might conceal something far more terrifying — hidden within ordinary bedbugs.
Sleep tight… if you can. Kiss of the Bedbug is a dark horror thriller filled with murder, mystery, and a threat that can hide almost anywhere.
The Barco Clan
Published in 2026 by Dusty Saddle Publishing
Big Cat Creek guards its secrets, and those who talk too much wind up dead. Big Cat also doesn’t like strangers. The latest pariahs: four Italian immigrants in fancy clothes who toss around a lot of money, ask questions in broken English, and buy up the Arizona town. They are peculiar and annoying foreigners, naive enough to be walking around without guns.
Local boss Jerry Ferguson doesn’t like strangers, especially foreigners. To protect his covert mining operations, he’s already engineered a series of murders made to look like accidents or self-defense. Suspicious of the four Italians, Jerry and his gang try to run the newcomers out of town. But the focus of Jerry's wrath is young Andrea Paolini, a skinny little musician with a girl’s name, a big mouth, and an eye on Jerry’s girl.
Byproduct
Published in 2023 by Raven Tale Publishing
FBI Special Agent Lee Diggs is no stranger to unorthodox violent crimes. His latest case has him on the trail of a female serial killer who is removing victims’ organs and eluding detection as she murders her way southward from New Jersey to Maryland.
On a tip from a trusted informant, Diggs investigates Planetary Solutions International (PSI), a space tourism company in Arlington, Va. There, astronaut Izzy Taranto is recuperating after surviving a deadly mission through a micro-blackhole from which her six crewmates never returned. As the organ harvesting deaths continue, leaving only cryptic clues in their wake, Diggs suspects that something intelligent and sneaky has followed Izzy back through the black hole portal. Something evil.
Vespa
Published in 2007 by Active Bladder
The victims are all the same. Snatched from their homes and then buried alive, only to be found days later, dead, and completely stripped of their organs and flesh. The police and media suspect a serial killer; but the feds know otherwise and call on Tom Goodman, an expert in the biological control of invasive species. Because something far more terrible than a human hand or rogue bear is at work in this small town besieged by death, and Goodman must figure out a way to exterminate the invader before it exterminates him and everyone around him. But to defeat the creature, Goodman must better understand it ... and get inside its head before it gets inside of his.
"In Vespa, Dean Lombardo has created a highly charged entertaining thriller similar to novels written by Crichton at his best. A cross between Preston and Child's The Relic and the X-files season II episode Firewalker, Lombardo's Vespa is crisp, fast paced and engaging. He seamlessly introduces just the right amount of science and entomology into the novel providing a plausible explanation for el monstruo ... This is a really good book. I couldn't turn the pages fast enough. What a spectacular debut novel. I anxiously await Lombardo's next book."
Todd A Fonseca, author of The Time Cavern
Byproduct
Published in 2024 by Raven Tale Publishing
FBI Special Agent Lee Diggs is no stranger to unorthodox violent crimes. His latest case has him on the trail of a female serial killer who is removing victims’ organs and eluding detection as she murders her way southward from New Jersey to Maryland.
On a tip from a trusted informant, Diggs investigates Planetary Solutions International (PSI), a space tourism company in Arlington, Va. There, astronaut Izzy Taranto is recuperating after surviving a deadly mission through a micro-blackhole from which her six crewmates never returned. As the organ harvesting deaths continue, leaving only cryptic clues in their wake, Diggs suspects that something intelligent and sneaky has followed Izzy back through the black hole portal. Something evil.