Shadow Lab, Volume Three (Paperback)

A stunning collection of ten thrilling short stories, it's Shadow Lab, Volume Three!

In The Henchman's Wife--by New York Times bestselling author Jeff Abbott--a woman's husband is killed protecting an ungrateful Russian crime boss, so the quiet, unassuming widow decides to find the killer and take her own brand of revenge.

In Gold Party by USA Today bestselling authors Jamie Brenner and Adam Chromy, a group of wealthy suburban women are shocked when thieves raid their Gold Party--and are even more shocked when they discover that one of the attendees may have set them up.

In Jen Z by award-winning playwright Joanna Pickering, a Gen Z recruit named Jennifer is hired by a high-profile law firm, but as she becomes more and more indoctrinated into the firm, her obsession with her boss turns deadly.

Find these and more thrilling tales in the third Shadow Lab anthology from Blackstone Publishing.

Brendan Deneen, a former Scott Rudin Productions, Miramax/Dimension Films, and Macmillan Publishers exec, joined Blackstone in 2021 as an editor and launched the company's in-house film/TV division. Deneen has set up Blackstone IP with Amazon Studios, Netflix, Paramount, NBCUniversal, A&E, Lionsgate, AMC, Blumhouse, Legendary, Amblin, Imagine, and Skydance, among many others. As an author, Deneen has had sixteen books published, including Alien: Uncivil War, Guardians of the Galaxy: Annihilation--Conquest, Green Arrow: Stranded, The Island of Misfit Toys, Morbius: Blood Ties, Flash Gordon: The Mercy Wars, and Night Night, Groot.

Jeff Abbott is the New York Times bestselling author of numerous mystery and suspense novels, including the Sam Capra series. He is a winner of the Thriller Award and a three-time finalist for the Edgar Award, and his novels have been summer reading picks for The Today Show and Good Morning America.

Jamie Brenner is the USA Today bestselling author of more than a dozen novels, including The Forever Summer and the Blue Angel trilogy. Adam Chromy is a literary agent, producer, and author. Inspired by time spent among the sprawling estates and tightly guarded social circles of Philadelphia's Main Line, the husband-and-wife team wrote "Gold Party," the first in a slate of commercial fiction projects they are developing together.

Ed Cho is the writer and co-creator of Little Guardians, a fantasy adventure graphic novel series. His short story "Lineage X" appeared in the Shadow Lab: Volume One. He is the author and director of the fiction podcast audio drama, Ignore City, which was nominated for six New Jersey Web Fest awards.

Richie Frieman is an award winning and bestselling author of eight books, across multiple genres. He was dubbed a "Modern Day Renaissance Man" by Macmillan Publishing and St. Martin's Press, due to a career that spans authorship, illustration, art, entrepreneurship, etiquette (aka Modern Manners Guy), podcasting, and even professional wrestling--where he held over a dozen championships during his in-ring tenure. He and his work have appeared in/on Time Magazine, People Magazine, MSNBC, Fox News, Forbes, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, Money Magazine, NPR, Martha Stewart, Fast Company, Entrepreneur Magazine, Parade, and Publishers Weekly.