{"product_id":"2940148421009","title":"Stone Cold, Blood Red: Tales Of N.H. Mystery","description":"\"I read everything Brendan DuBois writes. Science fiction, fantasy, mystery, it doesn't matter. He's one of the best.\" --- Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Hugo award-winning author \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"...Brendan DuBois is one of the two or three finest short story writers of my time.\" --- mystery editor and author Ed Gorman \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“It is impossible for me to overpraise Brendan DuBois.” --- Otto Penzler, The Mysterious Bookshop \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e* * * \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom award-winning author mystery author Brendan DuBois comes this unique collection of twelve tales of crime and mystery from his rural home state of New Hampshire. Included are: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The Right Call\": Newspaper reporter Jack Spooner has been exiled to a rural town, where every week, he gets a crank phone call from a man claiming to be a mass murderer. Jack begins investigating the source of the call, and starts to discover that perhaps the man isn't a crank at all. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Rising Waters\": An investigator from the Department of Justice visits his elderly aunt and uncle during a lengthy rainstorm that threatens to flood out their rural home. Yet the more time he spends with the couple, the more he's convinced that the rising waters are revealing a hidden, horrible crime from long ago. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"To Kill An Ump\": More than fifty years after he left his small New Hampshire town in disgrace, Randy Jarvis is returning, with a .38 revolver and a grudge against the minor league umpire who destroyed his major league baseball dreams back in 1958. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Brendan DuBois","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47161285738736,"sku":"2940148421009","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940148421009_p0.jpg?v=1763702858","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940148421009","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}