Stone Cold, Blood Red: N.H. Tales of Mystery


Brendan DuBois became a published author with the novel Dead Sand , which was published in Twilight is also known as The Dead of Night. Amerikan Eagle was written as Alan Glenn. In the page short story On the Plains of Deception by Brendan DuBois, two astronauts have made it to Mars and are now stranded, millions of miles from home.

They now must face their mortality with humour and affection, while back home, billions of people are watching their last movements. Hoping to stumble upon a new author or series?

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You can click these links and be sent to a random series or a random author. Is our listing on the left missing a book or two? We do our best to get everything listed but the occasional book gets by us. Let us know below so we can add it ASAP. As he closes in, so do men with Glocks and thick necks, and the mystery moves to another level. DuBois's smooth style and fine sense of pace make the stock elements bearable, even enjoyable.

There's the elegant friend - think Win in Harlan Coben's Bolitar novels - who shows up to help out when things get really dodgy, and there's the highly placed government man who owes Cole a favor and pays back at just the right time.

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The Marxist professor pal of the radicals is too much, though, calling a hurt cop "a symbol of the corporate oligarchy. Still, this is a well-made and satisfying thriller. Available now in e-book format, is the fourth adventure featuring retired Department of Defense analyst Lewis Cole. Soon, the Feds are investigating the death, and bring in a reluctant Cole to assist. The investigation leads from small town police departments to an old story about captured U-boats after World War II brought to a port up the coast. But Cole soons find out that the Feds are keeping deadly secrets from him about the man and his death, secrets that may have terrifying consequences for Cole and for thousands of others.

Killer Waves "is jam-packed with secrets and shady characters, but the most compelling thing about it is Cole himself Crime fiction is filled to the brim with first-person narrators; Lewis Cole has a voice to die for. Now in e-book format, here's the third novel in the Lewis Cole series. It's in the middle of January, all of the tourists are gone, and among the empty and shuttered hotels and motels, an arsonist is at work. Lewis Cole -- who hates to see his community threatened -- begins to investigate these arsons, while at the same time, a close friend is beaten and brutally raped.

Now, he is hunting for an arsonist and a rapist, both who have shattered the calmness of a New Hampshire winter. DuBois tells a strong, poignant story, meanwhile creating an exceptionally vivid picture of a New England coastal town held in winter's grip DuBois brings his characters to life gradually with a carefully chosen mixture of light and shadow -- giving even secondary players full credibility. And there are enough sides to his hero to hold your interest. Recommend this too-little-known series to fans of crime New England style.

This e-book sequel to DEAD SAND has Lewis Cole looking into the mystery surrounding an oil spill on the beaches of Tyler, and the headless and handless corpse of a diver, washing ashore in front of his house. Add in a puzzle involving three missing Winslow Homer paintings, and Lewis Cole soon finds himself in the fight of his life. In the first book of the Lewis Cole series, the hanging death of a teenage waitress at the resort community of Tyler Beach sets Lewis on a trail involving corruption, deceit, and the cover-up of a forty-year old murder.

The reader will be glad to meet Cole again. DuBois has created a fascinating main character; good minor characters and an iconoclastic view of the New Hampshire seacoast. A winner on all counts: Let's hope Lewis Cole will be making regular appearances from now on. From award-winning author mystery author Brendan DuBois comes this unique collection of "hidden" or hard-to-find short stories.

Since , DuBois has published more than short stories, and in this anthology, he brings together stories that are hard to find for the reader or collector that have been published in non-tradtional markets. Her daughter is attacked by the son of a prominent Georgia senator who may win his party's nomination. With pressure from all sides, can Beth find justice for her hurt daughter?

But he failed to plan for a dogged out-of-state CSI investigator who knows that important evidence must exist somehow, somewhere. Now it's late at night, at a remote cabin in Maine, standing in a snow-covered yard, wearing no footwear, no coat, no hat, just a thin nightgown, and she's slowly freezing to death, trying to figure out a way to survive From award-winning author mystery author Brendan DuBois comes this unique collection of twelve tales of crime and mystery from his rural home state of New Hampshire.

Newspaper reporter Jack Spooner has been exiled to a rural town, where every week, he gets a crank phone call from a man claiming to be a mass murderer. Jack begins investigating the source of the call, and starts to discover that perhaps the man isn't a crank at all. An investigator from the Department of Justice visits his elderly aunt and uncle during a lengthy rainstorm that threatens to flood out their rural home.

Yet the more time he spends with the couple, the more he's convinced that the rising waters are revealing a hidden, horrible crime from long ago. More than fifty years after he left his small New Hampshire town in disgrace, Randy Jarvis is returning, with a. Plus nine other tales of crime, mystery and suspense in the small, rural state of New Hampshire. From award-winning author Brendan DuBois comes this unique collection of eleven tales of science fiction, including:.

But a broken radio and a simple mistake leaves him lost on the harsh lunar surface, with less than an hour of air remaining A medieval German knight from the Crusades time travels to the future, where he is shaken to the core by seeing what has happened to his religion's symbol of God. The vicious and destructive war between Man and computer is over, and Mankind is victorious.

But one man is uncertain that the war is really over. The Hanoi Flu is spreading across the globe, with a mortality rate approaching 99 percent. But in a remote government laboratory in Maine, a desperate race is underway to make sure intelligent life on Earth is not extinguished. From award-winning mystery author Brendan DuBois comes this unique and inside view of America's favorite gameshow, "Jeopardy! As a lifelong reader, fan of trivia and watcher of "Jeopardy!

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But the third time proved to be a charm as he successfully auditioned for the program, and flew from his rural New Hampshire home to Los Angeles to tape his appearance and go head-to-head among some of the smartest people in America. Along the way he reveals information such as: This humorous, self-deprecating, informative and suspenseful book will provide even the most casual "Jeopardy! His appearance on "Jeopardy! This book is not authorized by "Jeopardy! Hundreds of years after the War of the World devastated humanity, only one nation is still thriving in North America: In the first book of this series, "The Noble Warrior," young Sire Armand de la Couture traveled south with his father by airship on a trading mission to a city-state called Potomick, which was once the capitol of the world's greatest empire, known as Amerka.

There, among the ruins of buildings and museums, he came upon a sacred site, a temple of a bearded, brooding man, sitting on a throne, looking out upon a rectangular pond. The man is known as Father Abram, and centuries ago, the stories say, he once freed the slaves. He is now worshipped and offerings are left at his feet, for the oppressed people of Potomick pray that a new Father Abram will arise and free the slaves once again.

Armand soon returned to the safety and comfort of his Empire, but he then took a critical look at his Empire's society, where indentured servants work for families to work off debts decades old, and Armand began to ask questions, questions that forced him into prison. Beaten, interrogated and tortured and also abandoned by his family he is deported west to the Imperial Oil Sands Authority, where condemned prisoners work as slaves to extract needed oil from the ground for the benefit of the Empire.

There, as a pampered prince who has never known cold, hunger and fear, Armand is forced to survive both the elements and assassins. Captured by barbarians in a place once called Idaho, he meets up with a fellow captive from his home empire, named Melinda. In a daring escape, he breaks free from the barbarians with Melinda, and traveling south, they meet up with something fantastic: In this concluding work of a three-novel series, award-winning winner author Brendan DuBois sets a new world among the ashes of the old, where the humanity-long struggle between freedom and slavery takes place in the ancient lands once known as Canada and America.

The cover art is done by the extraordinarily talented Jeroen ten Berge of New Zealand. Please visit his website at www. Armand soon returned to the safety and comfort of his Empire, but he then took a critical look at his Empire's society, where indentured servants work for families to work off debts decades old, and Armand began to ask questions. In this stunning second work of a three-novel series, award-winning winner author Brendan DuBois sets a new world among the ashes of the old, where the humanity-long struggle between freedom and slavery takes place in the ancient lands once known as Canada and America Coming soon, the sequel to "The Noble Prisoner" Book Three of the Empire of the North.

Science fiction, fantasy, mystery, it doesn't matter. He's one of the best. From this Empire, young Sire Armand de la Couture travels south with his father by airship on a trading mission to a city-state called Potomick, which was once the capitol of the world's greatest empire, known as Amerka. There, among the ruins of buildings and museums, he comes upon a sacred site, a temple of a bearded, brooding man, sitting on a throne, looking out upon a rectangular pond. Armand soon returns to the safety and comfort of his Empire, but takes a critical look at his Empire's society, where indentured servants work for families to work off debts decades old, and Armand begins to ask questions.

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A medieval German knight from the Crusades time travels to the future, where he is shaken to the core by seeing what has happened to his religion's symbol of God. But Cole soons find out that the Feds are keeping deadly secrets from him about the man and his death, secrets that may have terrifying consequences for Cole and for thousands of others. In his fifth book in the Lewis Cole series, mystery author Brendan DuBois spins a tale of history and deceit on the coastline of New Hampshire. Many fans of author Dubois appreciated the way he has depicted the events of the alternate history in the plot of this novel. From two time Shamus Award winner Brendan DuBois comes a terrifying and original tale of a world populated mostly by teens, who are fighting to save their lives.

But soon Armand catches the attention of his Empire's security forces, and he is forced to make a terrible decision: In this stunning debut work of a three-novel series, award-winning winner author Brendan DuBois sets a new world among the ashes of the old, where the humanity-long struggle between freedom and slavery takes place in the ancient lands once known as Canada and America And coming soon, the sequel to "The Noble Warrior" Book Two of the Empire of the North.

For nearly three decades, the fate of 2, American servicemen, missing in action in Vietnam, has remained a mystery. Now, with the ring of a doorbell, the mystery of some is about to be solved. Smalltown newspaper editor, Jason Harper, answers his door in the middle of the night to see an older man, shabbily dressed, with gray hair and a beard. And in a split second, Jason's life turns upside down. The man claims to be Jason's older brother, Roy, shot down over North Vietnam in Jason's joy at reuniting with his brother is quickly tempered as ruthless killers begin pursuing his family and friends, and as his faith in the man's claims threatens to tear his family apart.

Author Brendan DuBois pulls readers along for a harrowing ride on a deadly mission to reveal the truth. In this special Kindle and Nook edition, author Brendan DuBois has expanded the original edition of his novel, and also includes an Author's Afterword. Suppose a group of Vietnam MIAs had been secretly shipped to the Soviet Union, where intelligence agents grilled them constantly for almost 30 years?

What would've happened to these men when the U. The crisis was averted, but what would have happened if war had broken out? New York Times bestselling author Lee Child: A book you'll read three times and keep on your shelves forever. Brendan DuBois gives us the answer in this smart, suspenseful thriller, a frighteningly believable piece of alternative history.

You'll be shocked on every page by a world so familiar in its details that the terrible changes seem commonplace. Brendan DuBois is a fine writer, at the top of his game. Edgar-award winning author S. DuBois's careful research and dark imagination weave together a story that you won't be able to put down and that you will be grateful is only fiction. It's now available exclusively on the Kindle and Nook platforms, with a new author's afterword.

I'm thrilled to have this opportunity to share this thriller to a new generation of readers. Cohesively plotted and smoothly written, steadily exciting and rife with clever conceits, this is what-if thriller fiction at its finest. In every way, this is a first-rate novel and one that is sure to appeal to a wide variety of readers.

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Each Tiger Team has a representative from a different agency: Each team has a Presidential mandate to do whatever it takes to prevent a terrorist attack upon the United States, meaning each team has an unlimited budget and minimal oversight, to give them freedom of movement and action. Their authority extends over the breadth of the U. However, his skills as a street cop and tough inquisitor makes him a unique asset to Tiger Team Seven. Their mission is to do whatever it takes to prevent such an attack from occurring, even if it means secretly and illegally immunizing the American population.

But as work frantically begins to halt this deadly attack, there is a traitor at work within Tiger Team Seven This novel was originally published in by Five Star Press, and now it's available exclusively on the Kindle and Nook platforms. DuBois's execution is inventive, with plot twists good enough to keep readers whipping through the pages. Award-winning mystery author Brendan DuBois has gathered ten of his short stories that revolve around mysteries involving the military and the men and women who serve.

Included in this mysterious collection are: In , a U. Navy submarine on an espionage mission up a river in the Soviet Union makes an unexpected discovery that may change the history of the country. A top secret special ops unit is on a dangerous mission in the United States, racing against time to prevent an almost unimaginable disaster from taking place. But will they have to make the ultimate sacrifice? Plus seven other tales of military heroism and sacrifice as well as:. Brendan DuBois is one of the two or three finest short story writers of my time.

Four of these stories first appeared in "Playboy" magazine, with the initial story, "The Dark Snow," being nominated for an Edgar Allan Poe Award, and later appearing in numerous anthologies, including "The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century.

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In the new novel in the acclaimed Lewis Cole mystery series, award-winning author Brendan DuBois launches . Stone Cold, Blood Red: N.H. Tales of Mystery. Brendan DuBois is an award-winning author of short stories and novels. His short fiction has Stone Cold, Blood Red: N.H. Tales of Mystery () The Hidden.

It is the tale of a man who retires to bucolic New Hampshire, where he is harassed by persistent and increasingly malevolent neighbors. We underrate the pleasure and sheer fun some people get by hurting others. DuBois makes it clear, as he makes clear how difficult it is to cope with forms of harassment hard to pin down and scarcely illegal.

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Isolated, the flawed hero flounders, but he won't run away and learns to cope by toying with illegality as his tormentors do. A common murderer in the end but an uncommon planner, the hero handles his predicament successfully and to this reader's immense satisfaction..

Not content to let the professionals investigate this shooting, Cole begins to dig into the background of the murdered activist, as well as the anti-nuclear protesters who are gathering by the thousands on the New Hampshire seacoast, promising violent action in order to take over a nuclear power plant and halt its power production. But someone is also gunning after Cole, obstructing his investigation and making attempts on his life, as his inquiries bring him to question construction union members who favor nuclear power and the protesters who oppose it.

In a time of economic uncertainty, when Cole's own future is threatened, he presses ahead to solve this murder while also trying to protect the women who are closest to him. When someone shoots local peace activist Bronson Toles dead at one of the demonstrations Cole is covering, Cole looks into the backgrounds of Curt Chesak, leader of the violent Nuclear Freedom Front, as well as the head of the pro-nuclear New England Trade Union Council and Toles's family. As the demonstrations continue in the emotional aftermath of Toles's murder, Cole arranges to interview the elusive Chesak at his secret compound, a meeting that puts both Cole and his best friend, Det.

Diane Woods, in peril. Well-drawn and sympathetic characters add to the story's authenticity.

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The cliffhanger ending will leave series fans anxious for the follow-up. In an eerie prefiguration of last month's headlines, a calamitous nuclear accident, this one deep inside Russia, has flushed out hundreds of protestors against the construction of a nuclear reactor. Bronson Toles, the aging countercultural hero who runs the Stone Chapel, a pioneering music venue, is joined by Curt Chesak, coordinator for the Nuclear Freedom Front.

Or not quite joined, since Chesak is so wary of publicity that he never appears in public and is never seen without a mask except by his most trusted followers.