Brendan Dubois Books in Order

Former Defense Department analyst Lewis Cole investigates a woman's death in Tyler Beach and uncovers secrets that the quiet coast would rather keep buried. It is the book that introduces his wary, stubborn voice.

On an oil-stained New Hampshire coast, Lewis Cole stumbles into a case that connects local crime with larger secrets. The second Lewis Cole novel deepens the series' mix of seaside atmosphere and buried danger.

In an America shattered by nuclear war after the Cuban Missile Crisis, Boston reporter Carl Landry investigates a murder with ties to the darkest days of the Cold War. The search threatens to expose truths powerful people still want buried.

Lewis Cole gets pulled into a case involving arson, assault, and damage that spreads far beyond one crime scene. The answers are ugly, and the emotional cost is as real as the danger.

After Lewis Cole finds a murdered man near a wildlife preserve, federal agents force him into an investigation he wants no part of. The trail leads to hidden agendas and buried pieces of his government past.

Former special forces agent Drew Connor stumbles into a sinister secret while hiking in New Hampshire with the woman he plans to marry. Over the next six days, a deadly political plot threatens far more than their future.

A collection of dark tales that leans toward mystery, suspense, and the eerie. DuBois moves from human cruelty to quiet dread without wasting much time.

This collection gathers The Dark Snow with more crime stories marked by moral pressure, clean plotting, and sharp reversals. It is a strong look at DuBois in shorter form.

Fighter pilot Roy Harper is shot down in 1972 and somehow comes home alive with a story no one is ready for. What follows is a thriller of war, secrets, and loyalty under pressure.

When Lewis Cole's friend claims to have found proof of a Viking settlement on the New Hampshire coast, Lewis hurries over and finds a murder scene instead. Missing artifacts lead him into greed, history, and old resentments.

A looming anthrax attack puts time and trust in short supply. DuBois turns a terrorist threat into a fast-moving thriller about panic, politics, and how thin public order can be.

During New Hampshire primary season, Lewis Cole is framed in an assassination plot against a presidential candidate. To clear himself, he has to face political operatives, fake agents, and pieces of his own past.

A tense standalone thriller about ordinary lives sliding into fear, secrecy, and violence as a crisis closes in. DuBois keeps the pace brisk and the mood increasingly bleak.

Bob, a solitary Boston bartender, finds a battered pit bull puppy in a trash can and reluctantly takes it in with help from wary neighbor Nadia. When the dog's violent former owner comes looking, Bob is pushed into a dangerous clash with local toughs and the bar's criminal backers.

In an America where Franklin Roosevelt was killed and Huey Long rules while Hitler dominates Europe, Portsmouth cop Sam Miller investigates a murder everyone wants forgotten. The case pulls him toward fascism, espionage, and a summit that could change history.

A practical guide for writers who want to sell mystery short fiction. DuBois covers craft, submission strategy, editors, and the habits that help stories reach print.

Lewis Cole covers anti-nuclear protests at the Falconer plant when gunfire leaves an activist dead and his friend Paula Quinn badly shaken. The case forces him into the fault line between protest politics and hidden agendas.

A short story collection built around tense setups, divided loyalties, and endings that rarely come easy. DuBois keeps the focus on people forced into bad choices.

This historical suspense tale uses a wide, unforgiving landscape and shifting loyalties to build a story of danger, survival, and hard-to-read motives. DuBois keeps the tension tight and personal.

These stories follow retired black ops veteran Owen Taylor through missions, aftermath, and private reckonings. The collection brings together award-winning suspense pieces and shows DuBois at his leanest.

DuBois breaks down the challenges of writing detective fiction in first person, from voice and viewpoint to clues, pace, and fair play. It is a compact craft book aimed at working writers.

This collection turns to the Civil War for its crimes, secrets, and moral knots. DuBois uses the period's divided loyalties and constant danger to strong effect.

Escaping the Oil Sands, Armand reaches the forbidden lands and finds new enemies, uneasy allies, and remnants of an older America. The final book turns his private awakening into a broader fight for freedom.

After questioning the Empire's order, Armand is beaten, abandoned, and sent west to the Imperial Oil Sands as a slave laborer. Survival becomes his first lesson in the system he once took for granted.

Young nobleman Armand de la Couture travels from the Empire of the North to the ruins of Potomick and sees how freedom has been turned into legend. What he learns makes it harder to accept his own empire's injustices.

Set against one of New Hampshire's most storied landscapes, this book mixes regional atmosphere with uncanny menace. Old legends, lonely places, and human frailty do the heavy lifting.

An eleven-story science fiction collection that ranges from a life-or-death struggle on the moon to plague, time travel, and wars with machines. The stories imagine futures that are bleak, strange, and sometimes darkly hopeful.

DuBois gives a funny, firsthand account of auditioning for Jeopardy!, surviving the taping day, and seeing the show from the contestant's side. It is part memoir, part trivia fan diary, and very easy to race through.

A collection of hard-edged mystery stories about bad choices, buried motives, and violence that arrives fast. DuBois keeps the setups lean and the endings sharp.

When Detective Diane Woods is nearly killed during an anti-nuclear protest, Lewis Cole goes after the man responsible. His search leads from the New Hampshire coast to Washington and into a web of political secrets.

After a devastating hurricane, Lewis Cole returns to a battered Tyler Beach and helps search for a missing man tied to Paula Quinn. The closer they get, the more violent the hunt becomes.

Ten years after alien invaders wreck modern civilization, sixteen-year-old Randy Knox is sent on a secret mission to Washington. What looks like victory soon opens into conspiracy, ambush, and a much uglier war.

Disgraced former Coast Guard covert operative Zach Morrow agrees to help Homeland Security in exchange for getting his life back. Back in his hometown, he finds smugglers, secrets, and a cargo that could be catastrophic.

When Felix Tinios goes on trial for murder, Lewis Cole cannot shake the feeling that the case is too neat. His search for the truth turns courtroom drama into something far more dangerous.

A family in hiding thinks witness protection will keep them safe after one member stumbles onto a criminal plot. But secrets, unanswered questions, and danger next door make their refuge feel anything but secure.

A shattered soldier's wife wants Owen Taylor to avenge what war has done to her husband. Owen does not need much convincing, and the payback comes fast, personal, and ugly.

Teen soldier Randy Knox thinks the alien war may finally be ending after a Creeper surrender. Instead he walks into ambush, betrayal, and the awful possibility that some powerful people do not want peace at all.

Special Ops veteran Owen Taylor heads into one last covert mission and learns someone plans to sell him out. If he cannot survive the betrayal, the fallout could reach far beyond his own team.

Randy Knox thought the alien war might finally be over. Then a second Creeper battle station appears, his convoy is attacked, and he is thrown into captivity in the trilogy's bleak, hard-fought finale.

Recovering from surgery at his beachfront home, Lewis Cole should be taking it easy. Instead, a nearby murder, strange visitors, and his own troubled past turn convalescence into another tight, dangerous investigation.

Secret Service agent Sally Grissom is quietly assigned to investigate the First Lady's disappearance after a presidential affair goes public. Then a ransom note arrives, and the White House scandal turns into something far darker.

A professional fixer makes his living settling impossible problems in the shadows between cops, crooks, and desperate clients. When one job turns personal, the rules that kept him alive stop looking strong enough.

Army intelligence officer Amy Cornwall comes home to an empty house and a ringing phone. To save her husband and daughter, she must complete a terrifying mission in just forty-eight hours.

Seven people are murdered in a Georgia lake house, and four Army Rangers are blamed. Major Jeremiah Cook is sent in to investigate, but local resistance and buried secrets make the case far more dangerous than it looks.

President Keegan Barrett looks like a genius, but two CIA officers discover he may be steering America toward catastrophe. To stop a power grab that could ignite world war, they must choose conscience over command.

Undercover CIA officer Amy Cornwall uncovers dirty dealings inside her own world after a field operation goes wrong. With her family and country at risk, she has days, not months, to stop a double-agent's endgame.

When the bodies of a woman and child wash up near Lewis Cole's home, he gets drawn into a case tied to smuggling and human desperation. The quiet New Hampshire coast becomes the edge of a bigger moral crisis.