The Red Wine Dossiers is Now Available

 

The exclusive paperback edition of The Red Wine Dossiers is now available only on Amazon for the price of $12.99! HERE 

The Blurb:

The Red Wine Dossiers collects three novellas and two short stories in the Red Wine Agency prequel series that began with the novel The Darval-Mers Dossier.

In The Founders’ Tribunal Redinal Hu finds himself playing a small, but perhaps dangerous, role in the “Great Game” amongst the contending Great Houses of Lorria. Carleesa Trilae is the private secretary of their great grandmother, Penlane Trilae, the First Minister of the Commonwealth of Lorria. The First Minister has received a summons to appear before something called the Founders’ Tribunal in order to defend her administration against charges that she is not following the founding principles of Lorrian society. What this Founders’ Tribunal is, and who’s behind it, is a mystery. Nevertheless Penlane is determined, even eager, to face this secret tribunal to let them know exactly what she thinks they need to do if they want to maintain the founding principles. Carlessa does not think this is a wise idea. Failing to persuade her great grandmother to accept Red Hu as her legal counsel, she hires Red to secretly attend the tribunal to act as her secret bodyguard.

In The Isle House Ghost, Red is hired by Mr Colmara, an industrialist, being plagued by messages from “Compliance Agent Nine.” This agent is entering his country home to leave notes urging Mr Colmara to sign a petition for changes in government policy. Which, on the surface, seems innocent enough, except that they’re being delivered at night despite the fact that the house is locked up tight. Colmara fears that these visits may soon become more sinister, since these are the days when the old order is slowly dying and the new order has yet to be determined. This struggle is becoming increasingly cutthroat. Mr Colmara wants the intruder captured and brought to justice, but Red is at a loss to discover just how the notes are being delivered since no one is entering the house. Mr Colmara’s son suggests, jokingly, that Agent Nine is a ghost. Red doesn’t believe in ghosts, but then, who and how are the messages delivered? a classic locked room mystery to solve.

In Nine Again, Red discovers that no good deed goes unpunished. A powerful and ruthless old nemesis returns to demand that Red somehow “fix” what he did in order to solve The Isle House Ghost mystery.

In The Poison-Pill Will, Constance Darma, the new Head of the House of Darma has ruthless enemies within the family. Mz Darma’s grandfather died under unlikely circumstances, and now she’s now being pressured by a pair of ambitious uncles and an equally ambitious aunt to cede her inheritance to each of them. Great Houses have dark secrets, and murder may not be out of the question. A friend of Mz Darma fears for her life and she convinces her to hire Red to draft a “poison-pill will,” that would put an end to the House of Darma should she die - hopefully making her murder counter-productive. In addition, Red is to guard her while he drafts and files this will. Red discovers Mz Darma’s friend’s fears were well founded.

And finally, in The Pawns’ Game, Red must decide what his role, if any, he will play in the Great Game going forward. In it he learns how that game is played by the disposable pawns of that game.

Honestly, this book exists because I want all my stories on my book shelves, and to give to my kindly beta readers who went over these stories as a way of thanking them. I don't expect to sell any copies, and if I do, it's cause for celebration...  I did sell one!, another book out in the wild that might survive for, who knows? A century or more? 

The Poison-Pill Will & The Pawns' Game  are up for Preorder 

The ebook version of The Poison-Pill Will and The Pawns' Game, my latest novella and short story effort, is now available for pre-order on Amazon with a June 18th 2026 release date for the low, low price of $2.99.  HERE It will, of course, be released on all the usual suspects for free around that date as well.

And as long as I had it up for pre-order, I swapped out the ebook cover for The Founders' Tribunal as well, which is currently FREE on Amazon. And I see that The Darval-Mers Dossier is  FREE as well. Who knows what those crazy kids at Amazon are up to?

But if you just can't wait... The Red Wine Dossiers is now available as a real book.

I just want to add that though I envisioned these stories to be the last Red Hu/Wine stories, I rather painted myself into a corner in The Pawns' Game, and the only way out might be through the window of another story. However, if that should happen, it will be the first true Red Wine Agency novel. I ain't promising one. I'm just saying if I should just happen to find a plot... We'll see...