BURIED DREAMS (Amateur Sleuth / Reporter) – VGBrendan DuBois – 5th in seriesThomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Minotaur, 2004 – HardcoverReporter Lewis Cole’s friend Jon Erickson has made finding evidence of a Viking settlement in New Hampshire his avocation. It seems he’s finally found proof and has invited Lewis over to see it. But when Lewis arrives at Jon’s house he finds the police there and Jon murdered.*** DuBois is something of a buried treasure. Even if you’ve not read others in the series, you have a sense of who the characters are. You feel Lewis’ pain of losing his friend and how that friend has impacted Lewis’ life. But there’s good suspense as well and a well-done twist at the end. I have always enjoyed this series, and this is certainly one of his best.
Lewis Cole's friend Jon Ericson is intrigued by local history, and has been obsessed for many years with his theory that the Vikings inhabited the New Hampshire coastline. He finally finds real evidence, but when Lewis goes to see it, he finds the police securing the scene of a murder. Following his moral compass and disobeying a request from his close friend, Detective Diane Woods, he teams up with his shady friend, Felix Tinios to bring justice to the murderer. DuBois does a nice job of shifting suspicion around various perpetrators until the end, and we gain some further insight into Lewis and his family, which has not been featured previously.
