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Dan Marlowe #3
Blood on Hampton Beach
There's something tempting at Hampton Beach, something besides the sea and sand. Money and lots of it. The kind of money that brings greed, violence and murder to anyone it touches.
Just Dan Marlowe's luck to stumble across the murdered body of Hampton Beach's premier landlord. Now he has to find something else--her killer--and fast. Before a Hampton police detective, who thinks Dan is behind every crime on the beach, hangs the murder on Dan.
Just Dan Marlowe's luck to stumble across the murdered body of Hampton Beach's premier landlord. Now he has to find something else--her killer--and fast. Before a Hampton police detective, who thinks Dan is behind every crime on the beach, hangs the murder on Dan.
304 pages, Paperback
First published May 17, 2014
About the author
Jed Power
21 books16 followers I am a Hampton Beach, NH based writer and an “Active” member of Mystery Writers of America. My three crime novels, “The Boss of Hampton Beach,” “Hampton Beach Homicide,” and “Blood On Hampton Beach” are all available in trade paper and e-versions. The fourth book in the series, “The Honeymoon Hotel” will be out Memorial Day 2015. The protagonist in all four novels is Hampton Beach, NH bartender, Dan Marlowe.
The real Dan Marlowe was my father’s best friend. Mr. Marlowe wrote his crime masterpiece, “The Name of the Game is Death,” while living with my family in Woburn, MA. He named a character in the novel after me. I’ve returned the honor by naming my protagonist Dan Marlowe.
I also have a completed crime novel, “The Combat Zone,” about a PI who hangs his hat in 1970’s Harvard Square and spends time in the Combat Zone, Boston’s red-light district. This novel made it into the final cut (5 novels) in the Minotaur/Private Eye Writers of America “Best First Private Eye Novel” competition. It will be published as an ebook and trade paper in April 2015. I am now working on the second book in this series.
I also collect vintage Noir/Hardboiled paperbacks which includes, among many other items, the largest collection of Dan Marlowe novels, short stories, inscribed items and memorabilia.
I am mentioned several times in the new Dan Marlowe biography, “Gunshots In Another Room,” by journalist Charles Kelly.
I have been published in “Spinetingler,” “Over My Dead Body,” “Boys’ Life,” “Hardboiled,” “Suspense Magazine,” “Stone Cold--Best New England Crime Stories,” “Shotgun Honey,” “Plan B,” “The Rap Sheet,” “Naked Kiss,” “Yellow Mama,” “Short Story Digest,” “Near to the Knuckle,” “All Due Respect,” “Short--Story.me,” “Bethlehem Writer’s Roundtable,” “KIngs River Life,” “Twist of Noir,” and others.
Contact: jedpower@verizon.net or P. O. Box 3906, Peabody, MA 01961
The real Dan Marlowe was my father’s best friend. Mr. Marlowe wrote his crime masterpiece, “The Name of the Game is Death,” while living with my family in Woburn, MA. He named a character in the novel after me. I’ve returned the honor by naming my protagonist Dan Marlowe.
I also have a completed crime novel, “The Combat Zone,” about a PI who hangs his hat in 1970’s Harvard Square and spends time in the Combat Zone, Boston’s red-light district. This novel made it into the final cut (5 novels) in the Minotaur/Private Eye Writers of America “Best First Private Eye Novel” competition. It will be published as an ebook and trade paper in April 2015. I am now working on the second book in this series.
I also collect vintage Noir/Hardboiled paperbacks which includes, among many other items, the largest collection of Dan Marlowe novels, short stories, inscribed items and memorabilia.
I am mentioned several times in the new Dan Marlowe biography, “Gunshots In Another Room,” by journalist Charles Kelly.
I have been published in “Spinetingler,” “Over My Dead Body,” “Boys’ Life,” “Hardboiled,” “Suspense Magazine,” “Stone Cold--Best New England Crime Stories,” “Shotgun Honey,” “Plan B,” “The Rap Sheet,” “Naked Kiss,” “Yellow Mama,” “Short Story Digest,” “Near to the Knuckle,” “All Due Respect,” “Short--Story.me,” “Bethlehem Writer’s Roundtable,” “KIngs River Life,” “Twist of Noir,” and others.
Contact: jedpower@verizon.net or P. O. Box 3906, Peabody, MA 01961
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August 20, 2017
excellent author. Love hampton beach and love getting into the book in the winters and getting back on the beach .
August 6, 2019
Keeps you guessing until the end.
July 23, 2025
Hampton Beach
This book was really good. Being from NH, I was trying to visualize where he was talking about. Good series.
This book was really good. Being from NH, I was trying to visualize where he was talking about. Good series.
July 16, 2015
If you have ever been to Hampton Beach, I highly recommend reading Blood on Hampton Beach. Jed Power has a way in his writing that you feel like you are there. The way he describes the area in the story is so vivid that you see Ocean Blvd and all the shops, smell the sea air blowing from the beach across the street, hear the kids playing in the arcades, and you almost feel like the story beig told is real.
Get lost in Hampton Beach with bartender Dan Marlowe, restaurant owner, Dianne and Marlowe's best friend Michael "Shamrock" Kelly as they try to clear Dan's name when he stumbles across a dead woman's body on his morning jog on the beach. Along the journey you will meet a lot of residents of Hampton Beach and neighboring Seabrook as well as a few shady characters.
Blood on Hampton Beach is Power's 3rd Dan Marlowe book and each one gets better and better as you get to know the main characters and get lost in their lives on Hampton Beach.
Jed Power is definitely an author to follow and you can pick his books up in the gifts shops in Hampton on your way to the beach.....
Get lost in Hampton Beach with bartender Dan Marlowe, restaurant owner, Dianne and Marlowe's best friend Michael "Shamrock" Kelly as they try to clear Dan's name when he stumbles across a dead woman's body on his morning jog on the beach. Along the journey you will meet a lot of residents of Hampton Beach and neighboring Seabrook as well as a few shady characters.
Blood on Hampton Beach is Power's 3rd Dan Marlowe book and each one gets better and better as you get to know the main characters and get lost in their lives on Hampton Beach.
Jed Power is definitely an author to follow and you can pick his books up in the gifts shops in Hampton on your way to the beach.....
May 3, 2015
One of the best books i have ever read.. Everything went smoothly and consistently creating curiosity..
This book was wonderful, absolutely fantastic! I adored it!
I went into this book thinking "oh, this seems like it will be a nice story." And, wow, this book exceed my expectations and blow me away. This smartly written, thought-provoking novel is a must read for any fan of fiction.
5/5
Thanks to Netgalley for a copy!
This book was wonderful, absolutely fantastic! I adored it!
I went into this book thinking "oh, this seems like it will be a nice story." And, wow, this book exceed my expectations and blow me away. This smartly written, thought-provoking novel is a must read for any fan of fiction.
5/5
Thanks to Netgalley for a copy!
September 30, 2016
Always enjoy Jed Power's books. Living near and spending a lot of time in the Hampton Beach area makes this a fun read. It's so easy to visualize the places mentioned in the book. I have seen or met all the characters described in the book over and over again. Never trust a beach side real estate agent. :)
October 28, 2016
Love Hampton Beach and really enjoy Jed's writing style. His Dan Marlowe series are fun reads. I have all three in signed editions! :)
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