Brendan DuBois
Author
Series
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
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Description
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 on his mind: to recover from a bullet wound and to repair his nearly two hundred-year-old home before a hurricane scours his house into the unforgiving ocean.But just when his work has begun, former lover and journalist Paula Quinn comes to him with an urgent request. Her fiancé, attorney Mark...
Author
Series
Lewis Cole mysteries volume 7
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
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Description
Investigating the background of a murdered activist, Lewis Cole discovers ties to activities of anti-nuclear protesters who are gathering by the thousands on the New Hampshire seacoast, where they threaten violent action to promote their cause.
4) Fatal harbor
Author
Series
Lewis Cole mysteries volume 8
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
After a violent anti-nuclear protest puts his best friend into a coma, former defense analyst Lewis Cole must follow sparse clues and his instincts to find those responsible.
5) Night road
Author
Publisher
Midnight Ink
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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Description
Dishonorably discharged from the US Coast Guard, Zach Morrow accepts a shady assignment to befriend an old classmate who is reportedly smuggling a mysterious tractor-trailer across the Canadian border.
6) Blowback
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
A brilliant American president is also a psychopath. He has his finger on the red button. And he’s about to start a world war with our most dangerous enemy. Put your finger on the order button. Push it to read James Patterson’s best and scariest novel yet. “Pure Patterson… Blowback asks us to imagine what would happen if a narcissistic psychopath were elected to the White House [and] to experience the terror of the world hanging in the balance...
Author
Series
Amy Cornwall novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
In her career as an Army intelligence officer, Amy Cornwall has seen haunting sights half a world away. None compare to the chilling scene at her Virginia home. A phone rings with a terrifying ultimatum, locate and liberate an unnamed captive in 48 hours, or her kidnapped husband and ten year old daughter are dead. In open defiance of Army Command, Amy must employ every lethal tactic she has to save them. To succeed, she must discover not only who...
Author
Language
English
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When seven murder victims are found in a small town, the homicide investigation shakes a small-town sheriff to her core. Once a luxurious southern getaway on a rustic lake, then reduced to a dilapidated crash pad, the Summer House is now the grisly scene of a nighttime mass murder. Eyewitnesses point to four Army Rangers -- known as the Night Ninjas -- recently returned from Afghanistan.--
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
In his introduction, guest editor James Patterson observes, "I often hear people lamenting the state of Hollywood . . . If that's the case, I've got one thing to say: read these short stories. You can thank me later." Patterson has collected a batch of stories that have the sharp tension, drama, and visceral emotion of an Oscar-worthy Hollywood production. Spanning the extremes of human behavior, The Best American Mystery Stories 2015 features...