Brendan DuBois

aka Alan Glenn

Brendan DuBois is an award-winning author of short stories and novels. His short fiction has appeared in various publications including Playboy and Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, as well as numerous anthologies. He has twice received a Shamus Award for his short fiction and has been nominated for three Edgar Awards. DuBois lives in New Hampshire with his wife Mona.

Awards: Shamus (2017), Barry (2010) see all

Series

Lewis Cole
   1. Dead Sand (1994)
   2. Black Tide (1995)
   3. The Shattered Shell (1999)
   4. Killer Waves (2002)
   5. Buried Dreams (2004)
   6. Primary Storm (2006)
   7. Deadly Cove (2011)
   8. Fatal Harbor (2014)
   9. Blood Foam (2015)
   10. Storm Cell (2016)
   11. Hard Aground (2018)
   12. Terminal Surf (2024)

Empire of the North
   1. The Noble Prisoner (2012)
   2. The Noble Warrior (2012)
   3. The Noble Prince (2012)

Dark Victory
   1. Dark Victory (2015)
   2. Red Vengeance (2017)
   3. Black Triumph (2018)

Amy Cornwall (with James Patterson)
   1. The Cornwalls Vanish (2019)
     aka Out of Sight / The Cornwalls Are Gone
   2. Countdown (2023)

Alex Cross (with James Patterson)
Cross Down (2023)

John Sampson (with James Patterson)
1. Cross Down (2023)

Novels

   Resurrection Day (1999)
   Six Days (2001)
   Betrayed (2003)
   Final Winter (2006)
   Dead of Night (2007)
     aka Twilight
   Amerikan Eagle (2011) (as by Alan Glenn)
   Night Road (2016)
   The Negotiator (2018)
   The First Lady (2018) (with James Patterson)
   The Summer House (2020) (with James Patterson)
   Blowback (2022) (with James Patterson)

Collections

   The Dark Snow (2002)
   Tales from the Dark Woods (2002)
   Tales from The Dark Snow (2011)
   Death of a Gemini (2011)
   Blue and Gray Tales of Mystery (2012)
   Lost On The Moon (2013)
   The Hidden (2014)
   Silver Bullets (2019) (with others)

Novellas and Short Stories

   Rapunzel's Revenge (2000)
   On the Plains of Deception (2011)
   The Spirits of Crawford Notch (2012)
   The Witnesses (2016) (with James Patterson)

Series contributed to

BookShots : Owen Taylor
1. The End (2017) (with James Patterson)
2. After the End (2017) (with James Patterson)

Barb Goffman Presents
The Thief in the House (2021)

Black Cat Weekly Mystery
Obsession (2022)

Non fiction show

Omnibus editions show

Books containing stories by Brendan DuBois

The Best Mystery Stories of the Year 2024 (2024)
(Best Mystery Stories of the Year, book 4)
edited by
Anthony Horowitz and Otto Penzler

Black Cat Weekly #136 (2024)
(Black Cat Weekly, book 136)

Betrayal (2023)
(Thrill Ride, book 4)
edited by
M L Buchman

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Awards

	2017 Shamus Award for Best PI Short Story : A Battlefield Reunion
	2010 Barry Award for Best Short Story : The High House Writer
	2007 Barry Award for Best Short Story : The Right Call
	2001 Shamus Award for Best PI Short Story : The Road's End
	1999 Sidewise Award for Best Long-Form Alternate History : Resurrection Day
	1995 Shamus Award for Best PI Short Story : The Necessary Brother

Award nominations

	2023 Macavity Award for Best Mystery Short Story (nominee) : The Landscaper's Wife
	2018 Shamus Award for Best PI Short Story (nominee) : Random
	2010 Shamus Award for Best PI Short Story (nominee) : The Dark Island
	2009 Barry Award for Best Short Story (nominee) : A Trace of a Trace
	2004 Barry Award for Best Short Story (nominee) : Always Another War
	2003 Macavity Award for Best Mystery Short Story (nominee) : An Empire's Reach
	1997 Edgar Award for Best Short Story (nominee) : The Dark Snow: And other Mysteries
	1997 Anthony Award for Best Short Story (nominee) : The Dark Snow: And other Mysteries
	1995 Edgar Award for Best Short Story (nominee) : The Necessary Brother
	1990 Macavity Award for Best Mystery Short Story (nominee) : Fire Burning Bright
	1987 Edgar Award for Best Short Story (nominee) : Driven

Brendan DuBois recommends

Habeas Corpus (2025)
(Charlie Trust, book 1)
Jake Needham
"Jake Needham's suspense and plotting are top-notch, and his writing is exquisitely fine. Highly, highly recommended."

Man-Killer (2024)
(Gina Cototi Cases, book 1)
Lawrence Kelter
"In Lawrence Kelter's 'Man-Killer', meet a new and attractive PI character, Gina Cototi, who's in the middle of a non-PC romp involving stolen cars, mobsters, sexual inuendo, gunfights, fistfights, and members of her argumentative Brooklyn-based Italian family. Oh, yes, while she's risking her life and desperate to solve her case, time and space must be made for the traditional three p.m. Sunday family dinner. A crackling good read not to be missed."

The Greenleaf Murders (2022)
(Historic Homes Mystery, book 1)
R J Koreto
"One would think that a murder mystery featuring old homes, architecture, and rich blue bloods would be a dull read, but that's not the case with R.J. Koreto's finely-written 'The Greenleaf Murders.' Filled with twists and turns and sharply-drawn characters, this well-done novel is very much recommended."

The Night Shift (2022)
Alex Finlay
"In his second novel, The Night Shift, Alex Finlay takes his place in the upper ranks of thriller writers. From the very first chapter, Finlay expertly grabs the reader?s attention with a horrific mass murder at a Blockbuster store in 1999. Flash forward fifteen years later, the events of that dreadful night echo in a small New Jersey town, with lots of unanswered questions and theories of what happened. Then, a similar mass murder takes place at an ice cream shop, and the lives of several people-from investigators to survivors-interact in dramatic fashion. Filled with crisp dialogue, incredible suspense and memorable characters, The Night Shift is one not to miss. Highly recommended."

Beat the Devils (2022)
(Morris Baker, book 1)
Josh Weiss
"Thrillers involving the 1950s and an L.A. police detective are close to being a dime-a-dozen, but not so with Josh Weiss's superb Beat the Devils. It takes place in 1958 Los Angeles, but very different from our own history, beginning with the shocking twist that the President of the United States is former Wisconsin Senator Joe McCarthy. Instead of the relative peace and prosperity of the Eisenhower years, we're in the nightmare that is the McCarthy years, filled with Communist hunts among government agencies, businesses, and the media, as well as a secret police arresting and sometimes executing those suspected of disloyalty. Into this richly plotted and detailed novel is Detective Morris Baker, a Holocaust survivor who must navigate the dangerous times of this place, where Jews are second-class citizens, subject to pogroms and violence. A murder involving a prominent journalist and a famed film director sets him on a course of suspicion, betrayal, and double-crosses against a background of deep paranoia and permanent war. A remarkable achievement."

Killing Icarus (2021)
Paul Kemprecos
"It takes a writer of skills and talent to weave an impressive mystery involving Nazis, a famed American artist of the 1930's and 1940's, stolen artwork, a historical glider reenactment, and so much more, but Paul Kemprecos pulls it off with skill and panache. Killing Icarus is a stirring tale of secrets and betrayals, of old history coming to life, but more importantly, it's a love letter to the beauty and past of Cape Cod. Highly recommended."

True Fiction (2018)
(Ian Ludlow, book 1)
Lee Goldberg
"The story of an innocent man caught in a deadly conspiracy has been told before, but Lee Goldberg takes it a step further in this rollicking, sometimes humorous, always deadly True Fiction. Highly recommended."

The Big Get-Even (2018)
(Glen and Stan, book 1)
Paul Di Filippo
"Paul Di Filippo expertly spins a tale of revenge, betrayal, and a fight for salvation."

Brain Storm (2016)
(Angela Richman, Death Investigator, book 1)
Elaine Viets
"In her thrilling new series debut, Brain Storm, Elaine Viets calls upon her own challenging life experience in introducing Angela Richman, a death investigator working for upper-class Chouteau County in Missouri. Like Viets, Angela suffered a series of strokes and this death investigator is now struggling—in the midst of her recovery—to investigate a homicide that put her lifesaving neurosurgeon Dr. Jeb Travis Tritt in jail. Crisply written, with deft characterizations and action, Viets tells a tale that only she could have written."

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