Tales from the Dark Snow [NOOK Book]

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For the first time ever, award-winning mystery author Brendan DuBois has assembled the six prize-winning short stories featuring retired black ops expert Owen Taylor. Four of these stories first appeared in "Playboy" magazine, with the ...
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Tales from the Dark Snow

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Overview

For the first time ever, award-winning mystery author Brendan DuBois has assembled the six prize-winning short stories featuring retired black ops expert Owen Taylor. 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."

This unique anthology also includes:

-- Author forward and afterward

-- Publication history of each story

-- Author insight on how each story was written and published

-- Plus a never-before-published Owen Taylor story, "The High Ground"
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Editorial Reviews

Ed Gorman
"...Brendan DuBois is one of the two or three finest short story writers of my time."
Eugen Weber
"If you judge the best best stories by their impact and by how long they scratch at your memory, the one that's truly worth the price of admission (less than 4 cents a page!) [The Dark Snow] was written by an artist I had not read before: Brendan DuBois. It is the tale of a man who retires to bucolic New Hampshire, where he is harassed by persistent and increasingly malevolent neighbors... A common murderer in the end but an uncommon planner, the hero handles his predicament successfully and to
Otto Penzler
"The first time I read "The Dark Snow," I found it almost unbearingly suspenseful and immediately selected it for "The Best American Mystery Stories of the Year." It stayed with me so powerfully that a few years later I used in "The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century." It is impossible for me to overpraise this utterly brilliant story."
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Product Details

  • BN ID: 2940013317819
  • Publisher: Brendan DuBois
  • Publication date: 10/21/2011
  • Sold by: Barnes & Noble
  • Format: eBook
  • Sales rank: 902,967
  • File size: 179 KB

Meet the Author

Brendan DuBois of New Hampshire is the award-winning author of twelve novels and more than 110 short stories. His latest novel, "Deadly Cove," was published in July 2011 by St. Martin's Press.

His short fiction has appeared in Playboy, Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, and numerous other magazines and anthologies including “The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century,” published in 2000 by Houghton-Mifflin. Another one of his short stories appeared in in "The Year's Best Science Fiction 22nd Annual Collection" (St. Martin's Griffin, 2005) edited by Gardner Dozois

His short stories have twice won him the Shamus Award from the Private Eye Writers of America, and have also earned him three Edgar Allan Poe Award nominations from the Mystery Writers of America. Visit his website at www.BrendanDuBois.com.

Cover art by Jeroen ten Berge. Visit his website at www.Jeroentenberge.com
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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 4, 2012

    Incredible storytelling - absolute gem

    The characters in these stories come alive. You get very invested in outcome. While rooting for Owen, think of a darker side of 007, you also relate to each character. Sure, you do not like the "bad guy", but you are given a chance to see their side of their actions, not just told by the writer what to think. Great example, small town militia....already reason enough to maybe not like them because they don't like outsiders or immigrant workers. Most authors leave it there with expectation you agree that they are bad and need to be dealt with. Author DeBois actually gets you to see the motivation behind what drives this group, their reasoning and thoughts. You still come to the same conclusion, yep, bad guys need to be taught a lesson. However, now you are invested. You have a logical reasoning behind your decision instead of just going along as usual....good guy vs bad guys, good guy does bad things to get rid of the bad guys....you stop just accepting the traditional formula and for once feel like you are part of the story. You agree because you really do, not because you are told to.
    The only thing better than getting maybe a huge 500 page book revolving around Owen would be a movie, I am thinking a slighly younger version of the all-women-love-all-men-wish-they-were Sean Connery......nice.

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