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Title details for Hard Aground by Brendan DuBois - Available

Hard Aground

#11.0 in series

by Brendan DuBois
David Stifel
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Caught in the crossfire, will Lewis Cole's final battle be in his own home?
Alone and recovering from a major surgery, retired Department of Defense analyst Lewis Cole is stuck inside his historic beachfront home when danger comes knocking at his door. At night, he is convinced he hears intruders breaking into his home. By day, he is relentlessly harassed by pushy genealogy researchers.
Lewis's anxieties peak when an elderly woman—a local historian and antiques dealer—is inexplicably murdered, rocking the small town and pushing Lewis into action. At the same time, a local gang makes their presence known as they dive deep into the highly lucrative and perilous heroin trade. Lewis is suspicious of the timing of events and finds himself pulled into the violent drug-epidemic that grows closer to home.
As the death toll rises, Lewis grapples with elusive perpetrators, shady dealings, and a twisted path of ancient feuds—all of which threaten his community and center around his own precious home. Can Lewis save what he loves most, or will he die trying?

  • Creators

  • Series

    Lewis Cole

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    July 23, 2024

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9798855502619
      • File size: 236677 KB
      • Duration: 08:13:04

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      Starred review from February 19, 2018
      Unpretentious but thoroughly satisfying, DuBois’s 11th Lewis Cole mystery (after 2016’s Storm Cell) does a lot within its limited scope. Despite being basically confined to his Tyler Beach, N.H., house after surgery, Cole can’t escape disturbing pressures from the world outside: an elderly antiques dealer’s shotgun slaying, his shady pal Felix Tinios’s pursuit of missing antique silver, and the opioid epidemic’s corrupting influence on Tyler Beach. He also gets bothersome news bulletins from his current lover, reporter Paula Quinn, and from his local police detective friend, Diane Woods. Mean-
      while, he’s bedeviled by an overbearing couple who want to tour his house—and by the inconvenient ghost of his one true love, “long-dead and long-missing Cissy Manning,” with whom he converses in his dreams. And, to top it off, the tumors that were removed from his back have gone astray en route to the lab that was to test whether they were cancerous or not. Somehow, DuBois fits all this into a tight, lively package that’s the epitome of superior storytelling.

Formats

  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

subjects

Languages

  • English

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