Tales from The Dark Snow

For the first time ever, award-winning mystery author Brendan DuBois has assembled the six prize-winning short stories featuring retired black ops expert Owen Taylor.

Four of these stories first appeared in "Playboy" magazine, with the initial story, "The Dark Snow," being nominated for an Edgar Allan Poe Award, and later appearing in numerous anthologies, including "The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century.".

This unique anthology also includes:

-- Author forward and afterward.

-- Publication history of each story.

-- Author insight on how each story was written and published.

-- Plus a never-before-published Owen Taylor story, "The High Ground".

Brendan DuBois of New Hampshire is the award-winning author of twelve novels and more than 110 short stories.

His latest novel, "Deadly Cove," will be published in July 2011 by St. Martin's Press.

His short fiction has appeared in Playboy, Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, and numerous other magazines and anthologies including “The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century,” published in 2000 by Houghton-Mifflin.

Another one of his short stories appeared in "The Year's Best Science Fiction 22nd Annual Collection" (St. Martin's Griffin, 2005) edited by Gardner Dozois.

His short stories have twice won him the Shamus Award from the Private Eye Writers of America, and have also earned him three Edgar Allan Poe Award nominations from the Mystery Writers of America.

Visit his website at www.BrendanDuBois.com.

Cover art by Jeroen ten Berge.

Visit his website at www.Jeroentenberge.com