With echoes of Rear Window, award-winning Brendan DuBois’s new thriller, Hard Aground, finds defense analyst Lewis Cole trapped and under siege in his beachfront home. Hard Aground is the 11th book in Brendan DuBois’s series to feature retired DOD analyst now magazine writer Lewis Cole, and it most definitely won’t be my last. Although I’m always up…
Storm Cell by Brendan DuBois is the 10th Lewis Cole Mystery, where defense analyst Lewis Cole must try to save a close friend from a death row murder conviction (Available November 22, 2016). Fletcher Moore—the chairman of the Tyler, New Hampshire board of selectman and all around respected good egg—is murdered with two slugs to the…
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Blood Foam by Brendan DuBois is the 9th Lewis Cole mystery where the retired Deptartment of Defense analyst must help an old flame hunt down her missing fiancé (available June 15, 2015). A wounded and healing Lewis Cole—retired Department of Defense analyst and magazine columnist—returns to his fire-damaged home on Tyler Beach with two things…
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“Her Haunted House” by Brendan DuBois appears here in its entirety, and is joined by 13 other short crime stories in Criminal Element's inaugural e-collection, The Malfeasance Occasional's Girl Trouble issue (available for $3.99). After enjoying this Halloween treat, try another complete story from this collection or learn more about the issue's contents and contributors.…
14 short crime stories on a theme are collected in the inaugural “Girl Trouble” e-issue of Criminal Element's Malfeasance Occasional (available September 24th, 2013). Tender-hearted, tough-minded (and occasionally foul-mouthed) girls take center stage in suspenseful tales that are also touching, haunting, and darkly funny. From modern cities and the middle of nowhere—even a place that…
Kwik Krimes by Otto Penzler collects flash fiction crime stories told in a thousand words or fewer by over eighty different authors (available August 20, 2013). Even more exciting than the masterfully crafted, high-octane gems contained within Kwik Krimes,the latest anthology from legendary crime fiction aficionado and editor Otto Penzler, is the much-deserved recognition of…
Baseball season is well under way, so it’s time to start reading about fictional murder in our favorite ballparks. Here are some of my favorite series and standalones, and even a short story anthology that talks about the great American pastime. So let’s play ball…
Spenser, the Boston private detective created by Robert B. Parker, has inspired legions of readers and writers alike. To commemorate his influence, editor Otto Penzler assembled a monster list of crime authors to share their affection for this icon. Their contributions became In Pursuit of Spenser: Mystery Writers on Robert B. Parker and the Creation…
