Dead Sand

by Brendan DuBois

Overview

Now available once more is award-winning mystery author Brendan DuBois' first novel, DEAD SAND.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940044493254
Publisher:	Brendan DuBois
Publication date:	04/23/2013
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	230,770
File size:	893 KB

About the Author

Brendan DuBois of New Hampshire is the award-winning author of sixteen novels and more than 120 short stories.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.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.He is also a one-time “Jeopardy!” game show champion. Visit his website at BrendanDuBois.com.

Editorial Reviews

Diane Woods, sole detective in the police department of Tyler, N.H., privately welcomes the unofficial assistance of magazine writer Lewis Cole during what amounts to a crime wave in the coastal town. Soon after an unidentified corpse, buried decades ago, is unearthed by a developer's backhoe, Lynn Germano, a waitress at the local diner, is found strangled in the ``prime beachfront cottage'' she rented. Felix Tinios, an acquaintance of Cole's who works freelance for organized crime, dismisses the Germano murder as amateurish. But when Cole just misses being on a boat that explodes, killing the fisherman who said he had info about the strangling, and then finds a molotov cocktail on his property, he doubts his source's veracity. First-novelist DuBois, an Edgar nominee for short fiction, spreads references to Cole's earlier departure from the Department of Defense in Nevada, which left the agency uneasy and him permanently wary, throughout the story. The narrative scraps of Cole's past mix with secret histories of current players in the coastal mysteries to yield a somewhat overstuffed tale. But DuBois continues to show promise; maybe Cole's next appearance will deliver on it. (May)

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