Lewis Cole · Book 1

Dead Sand

by Brendan DuBois

Published
1 January 1994
Pages
290
ISBN-13
9781883402457
Type
novel

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Cover of Dead Sand

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…

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