About Brendan DuBois

Brendan DuBois is the New York Times bestselling author of twenty-nine novels, including THE FIRST LADY and THE CORNWALLS VANISH (March 2019), co-authored with James Patterson, along with THE SUMMER HOUSE (June 2020), and BLOWBACK (September 2022). Other novels co-authored with Patterson include COUNTDOWN (March 2023), followed by CROSS DOWN (June 2023). He has also published more than 200 short stories.

His full-length novels include the twelve novels in the Lewis Cole series, the latest being TERMINAL SURF (June 2024) as well as the DARK VICTORY science fiction trilogy.

Brendan’s short fiction has appeared in Playboy, The Saturday Evening Post, Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, Analog, Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, The Strand Magazine, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, and numerous anthologies including “The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century,” “The Best American Noir of the Century” and “Best Science Fiction of the Year.”

Eight times his short fiction have been selected for The Best American Mystery Stories anthologies, edited by Otto Penzler.

His stories have thrice won him the Shamus Award from the Private Eye Writers of America, two Barry Awards, two Derringer Awards, the Ellery Queen Readers Award, and three Edgar Allan Poe Award nominations from the Mystery Writers of America.

In 2021 he received the Edward D. Hoch Memorial Golden Derringer for Lifetime Achievement from the Short Mystery Fiction Society.

He is also a “Jeopardy!” game show champion, and lives in New Hampshire with his wife Mona, a sweet English Springer Spaniel named Cooper, and a long-tailed tuxedo cat called Oliver.