Lewis Cole · Book 1
Dead Sand
- Published
- 1 January 1994
- Pages
- 290
- ISBN-13
- 9781883402457
- Type
- novel

About this book
Dead Sand opens the Lewis Cole series in 1994, introducing Brendan DuBois' magazine-columnist narrator and the fictional New Hampshire coastal town of Tyler where his classified past keeps surfacing in pieces. At 290 pages, it sets up the self-contained-mystery format the series follows for three decades.
Its place in Lewis Cole
Dead Sand is book 1 in the Lewis Cole series. It is followed by Black Tide. See the full Lewis Cole reading order.
Lewis Cole writes a magazine column about New Hampshire's Atlantic coastline from a beach house that once belonged to his late partner -- a house he can afford only because of a classified incident from his previous career at a Pentagon-adjacent intelligence job that ended in violence and reassignment. That backstory surfaces only in pieces across the series, and it is what makes Cole different from the usual amateur sleuth: local police in the fictional town of Tyler know he has skills and connections well…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781883402457