Dead Sand
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3.7 • 15 Ratings
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Publisher Description
Introducing his famed series character, Lewis Cole, DEAD SAND by Brendan DuBois tells the tale of the mysterious murder of a teenage waitress at at beach resort in New Hampshire. Lewis Cole, a retired research analyst from the Department of Defense and a magazine columnist, travels down some mean streets indeed as he puzzles out not only the teenage girl's murder, but his own place in life after nearly being killed while working for the DoD.
This work also includes an author's introduction and afterward, going into great (and sometimes humorous) details of what it was like to finally have his first novel published.
REVIEWS
"DuBois' urgent writing style, sense of place, and obvious love of his native coast make for a stirring and vividly active tale that kept this reader turning page after page to savor it all." -- Mae Woods Bell, The Sunday Telegram (NC)
"DEAD SAND is tightly written and plotted with all the skill of an assassination." --- Focus on Denver
"DuBois' characters are amply fleshed out and his pacing is superb." --- Bruce Lawrason, Indianaoplis Star
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Brendan DuBois of New Hampshire is the award-winning author of sixteen novels and more than 120 short stories. His novel, "Resurrection Day," won the Sidewise Award for Best Alternative History Novel of the Year. He is also a one-day "Jeopardy!" game show champion.
His short fiction has appeared in Playboy, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, 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.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
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.
Customer Reviews
Editor, where are you!!
The story is hard to get into because I constantly have to reread passages before it makes sense. The editing is amateurish. Punctuation, sentence structure, or just basic spelling.. I’m happy with the story but..
Dead sand
Basis Grammar...ie “be for” and things like that thru out....where are proof readers? Very amateurish