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The Errand Boy

A Novel

By: Don Bredes

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Every small town has its secrets. Onetime Boston homicide detective Hector Bellevance is married now and settled on the family farm with his pregnant wife, Wilma, and their strong-willed eleven-year-old daughter, Myra, happily spending his days raising vegetables for the farmers’ market and serving, when needed, as the town’s constable. But Hector’s fair-weather days suddenly darken when a reckless driver leaves Wilma in a coma, and later, after the unrepentant driver turns up brutally murdered, Hector finds himself a natural suspect in the homicide. When the victim’s father offers to pay Wilma’s medical bills if Hector will find his son’s killer, Hector takes the case–more out of compassion than a desire to clear his own name. Yet the murder quickly proves more vexing and the motives more twisted than even a town constable could have foreseen. Hector discovers an unsavory secret behind every door, and he is soon caught in a web of sex offenders, backwoods meth addicts, undercover federal agents, Hells Angels, and an international drug cartel. Just when he’s ready to abandon his sputtering investigation–as the police have angrily demanded–Myra disappears from the hospital while visiting her mother, and Hector knows he cannot rest until he has found her. Everything he loves and lives for is at stake.

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ISBN 10

0307461912

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9780307461919

The Fifth Season

A Novel of Suspense

By: Don Bredes

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The Fifth Season

A Novel of Suspense

By: Don Bredes

In Don Bredes’s Cold Comfort, Hector Bellevance left Vermont for Harvard, graduated into a job with the Boston Police Department, made detective, married, divorced, accidentally shot his partner during a raid gone bad, and then returned to Vermont because, as Robert Frost famously said, “Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.” Now, in The Fifth Season, he’s back in the town of Tipton, growing vegetables for the farmer’s market, dating Wilma Strong, the hotshot reporter for the local paper, and serving as town constable, when Marcel Boisvert—a contrary town father who, as road commissioner, maintains Tipton’s rural thoroughfares—apparently goes berserk. Hector finds the county sheriff shot dead in Marcel’s dooryard and the Tipton town clerk shot dead in her office. Marcel has disappeared. Hector and Wilma and half of the Vermont State Police are looking for Marcel—and looking over their shoulders at the same time. The small town’s history, the complex interrelationships of people whose fathers and grandfathers were friends, and the outlaw independence of such a place all play into a tale of love, betrayal, and one very strange season.

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0307237850

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9780307237859

The Fifth Season

A Novel of Suspense

By: Don Bredes

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A Novel of Suspense

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Cold Comfort

A Novel

By: Don Bredes

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Cold Comfort

A Novel

By: Don Bredes

Propelled by fine writing and full-blooded characters, Cold Comfort is an intricate tale of murder and passion set in a deceptively peaceful, rural American locale. Hector Bellevance has returned to his hometown in northern Vermont after a bruising tenure as a Boston cop destroyed his marriage. Once there, he reluctantly accepts the mostly honorary title of town constable, a job that has him enforcing dog ordinances and other local nuisance laws, until a violent double-murder sets a destructive series of events in motion. A wealthy and attractive couple from Canada, recent newcomers to the town, are found shot execution-style in their fashionable home. Hector's half-brother Spud -- a down-to-earth dairy farmer and neighbor of the two -- finds the bodies shortly before the police discover that Spud and the wife were having an affair. With his brother tagged as suspect number one, Hector is forced to begin his own investigation into who wanted these people dead and why. The search finds him keeping company with Wilma Strong-Parkhurst, a smart, sexy, outspoken reporter for the local paper, who knows more than she's telling. Together they uncover the unexpectedly dark underbelly of the town and its environs, which involves locally produced porn films, high-stakes real estate development, and drugs. Critically acclaimed author Don Bredes spins a captivating story of lust, greed, and old-fashioned, time-honored American ingenuity.

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Harmony

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0609606875

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9780609606872

North Carolina Getaways

A Guide to Bed and Breakfasts and Inns

By: Don Vandeventer

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North Carolina Getaways

A Guide to Bed and Breakfasts and Inns

By: Don Vandeventer

A guide to 100 of North Carolina's top bed and breakfasts and inns all personally visited and photographed by the author.

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John F. Blair, Publisher

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1886443017

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9781886443013

The Errand Boy

A Novel

By: Don Bredes

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The Errand Boy

A Novel

By: Don Bredes

A fast-paced novel of suspense, "The Errand Boy" is set in the green hills of Vermont, where nature's serenity masks currents of crime and brutal violence that only the locals can fathom.

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Three Rivers Press (CA)

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0307237435

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9780307237439

Cold Comfort

A Novel

By: Don Bredes

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A Novel

By: Don Bredes

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Conversations with Don DeLillo

By: Don DeLillo

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Conversations with Don DeLillo

By: Don DeLillo

Throughout long profiles and conversations--ranging from 1982 to 2001--the renowned author makes clear his distinctions between historical fact and his own creative leaps

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Univ. Press of Mississippi

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1578067049

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9781578067046

Don Coen

The Migrant Series

By: Jerry N. Smith

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Don Coen

The Migrant Series

By: Jerry N. Smith

Monograph detailing Don Coen's Migrant Series paintings, his inspiration and methodology

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