Books by Brendan P. Myers

The Mound

Troubled teen Dani Hogan believes she is about to be made queen of a fairy tale kingdom. And you know what? She may just be right . . .

Levi Hogan, the new police chief in Bixbie, Massachusetts, is trying to stay off the booze and start a new life. Bixbie doesn’t have much in the way of crime anyway, that is, until people start disappearing. While investigating, Hogan learns Bixbie is also home to "New England’s Stonehenge," a mysterious mound thousands of years old. Though its purpose is unknown, it becomes clearer when Hogan’s runaway daughter comes to town.

Because what Hogan doesn’t know is Dani believes she is to become queen, and local teen Ian Sinclair is to become king, of a fairy kingdom populated by elves and pixies and helpful brownies. Before long, even Hogan starts to believe that maybe, just maybe, the Scots-Irish founders of Bixbie brought something along with them.

Sincerely Dead

When a hitman returns to New York City and accidentally unleashes the zombie apocalypse, an epic adventure of survival unfolds, as a small band of the still living struggle to escape this now city of the dead. The long awaited follow-up to the seriocomic zombie short Nearly Dead.

21C and Other Sordid Tales

Her badge says, “I’m a People Person!” Don’t you believe it …

Meet Jill. She’ll be your flight attendant today. A word of caution, though. Do NOT irritate her or make her angry in any way, because if you do, you may find your flight turned into a living hell of abuse and intimidation and humiliation … that is, if you survive at all.

Swash!

When a late winter storm unearths an ancient shipwreck, the sleepy beach town of Sully’s Rump is turned upside-down, first by the news media, then by the resurrected pirates who come back to reclaim their ship.

Local historian Arthur Cobb wants the legendary ship for himself, but so does his nemesis, gazillionaire businessman Barney Zimmerman. Caught between the two is Chris Duggan, the boy who found the wreck, who just wants to help the pirates get home.

He realizes the only way to do that is to rebuild the ship and fulfill the pirate curse, but soon discovers that dislodging the pirates from the Rump may prove more difficult a task than was deciphering the curse that brought them there.

Applewood

Twenty-five years ago, a mindless act of teenage vandalism reawakened a long dead nightmare in the small Massachusetts town of Grantham. When Sergeant Lombard finds a mutilated body by the side of the road, he knows the horror of his youth has returned. He calls upon his damaged friend Dugan, who has never forgiven himself for what happened back then, and has lived ever since with the terrible consequences.

Delighted at first by the disappearance of the town bullies, Dugan and his outcast friends soon realize that as the undead begin to surround their own neighborhood, they must do battle against a growing vampire army led by the town’s long dead Civil War hero. Along the way, they find clues in the diary of a young boy not unlike themselves, and strength in their own unique friendship.

And as the battle reaches its climax, for some, life will never be the same.

Fledge (Applewood: Book II)

The APPLEWOOD saga continues … Fourteen-year-old Scott Dugan is both desperate survivor and hunted casualty of a vampire outbreak that decimates his small Massachusetts town. His uncle believes science offers hope and takes the boy on the run from shadowy forces tasked with exterminating those like his nephew.

But when the two separate, Scott embarks on an epic journey that takes him from cheap carnival sideshow act to comfortable refugee in the home of a wealthy and reclusive man with his own dark tale to tell.

As the chase moves from the low deserts of Arizona to the high peaks of Colorado and into the White House itself, Scott must avoid becoming a pawn in someone else’s deadly game. And when he learns that self-discovery for those like him is found only by embracing all he has become, he must weigh his longing to remember who he was and where he came from against the certainty that in doing so, he will never see the sun again.

Adamson’s Rock and Other Stories

A detective investigating a suicide comes away with more than he bargained for… a routine clinical trial goes horribly wrong … an avid book collector learns to just what lengths he will go to hold on to a treasure … and a close-knit New England family comes to terms with the end of the world. From the author of “Sumner Gardens” come eight spine-tingling tales of terror and wonder.

Hope Town

In the sleepy village of Hopeton, at the end of a bad day, Parker nurses his wounds at a local watering hole. There, he meets a woman. Turns out her day was almost as bad as his. Almost. But soon, they find themselves thrown together in a deadly race for survival. From the high-rises of downtown Boston, to the high seas of the Atlantic, events move inexorably toward a pulse-pounding climax.

A Truck Story

What would happen if a fanatic Red Sox fan and his two nephews became trapped in the back of the equipment truck as it begins its 1487-mile journey to spring training? Aside from the kidnappings, the car chase, an Elvis impersonator, some hungry alligators, and a few other surprises, the trip itself is relatively uneventful. A charming and hilarious tale sure to delight baseball fans of all ages.

Sumner Gardens

It’s October of 1970 and twelve-year-old altar boy Conner O’Neil has a few problems. He’s dodging some oddly personal questions from his parish priest and learns he has to kiss the creepiest girl in class after getting the lead in the school play. But only after his father has another heart attack do his real troubles begin. A heartwarming and life-affirming coming-of-age tale.

The Dick Londergan Chronicles

A Very Dick Londergan Christmas

It’s Christmas Eve, and when the head honcho of the local Building and Loan skips town with $8,000 the very same day an office complex collapses, trapping a family man architect inside, throwback P.I. Dick Londergan smells trouble. His kind of trouble. But while he sniffs around, his beloved city is somehow transformed into a wholesome family town, and soon, he finds himself trapped in a nightmare from which there might be … no escape.

Telegraph Hill

When old school P.I. Dick Londergan stumbles onto a case that smells of sweet tea and fresh baked cookies, it’s Dateline: Danger! because he’ll soon find its ugly underbelly consists of one part smarm, two parts pain, and a heaping helping of primetime “gotcha!”

Hell City

Dick Londergan is a private detective from the old school, the kind who likes his women leggy, his scotch neat, and his coffee black. When summoned to Telegraph Hill to investigate a murder, he finds himself thrust into a mystery so deep, even his old school methods may not be enough to solve it.

Among the sinister questions confronting him: Why was his town suddenly so popular with racket boys and hoodlums? For what nefarious purpose had the two biggest criminal bosses in town set aside their differences? Who was the blonde English chef berating his cooking skills? And why was Londergan himself constantly being hounded by television cameras?

These and other questions will (mostly) be answered in this comic novella, an homage to the iconic private detectives of the past, about a guy who finds himself lost in a world where lines of reality and fantasy blur, one in which the greatest mystery of all might be, who is Dick Londergan?

The Ghost and Mr. Londergan

When word hits the streets hardnosed P.I. Dick Londergan is spending the night in a haunted house, he finds out the hard way lots of folks in town want that house’s secrets to stay buried forever. He finds out too that uncovering those secrets may come at the cost of his own life.