About the Author

H.B. Dumont writes murder mystery novels with a tinge of espionage and romance. She has lived and worked in North America, Western Europe and the Balkans while affiliated with "interesting people doing interesting things in interesting places" - i.e., policing, security and intelligence - hence the use of a nom de plume. She recently retired from university and college faculty positions.



About THE BLACK HAT

First novel in the Noir Intelligence Series

Forensic psychologist Alexandra Belliveau is en route to Luxembourg City to attend her mother's funeral. The joie de vivre from her childhood had since been beset by hapless events linked to the mother's career as a French counterintelligence agent and, before that, a member of the Maquis, the French resistance during the war. At the funeral reception, Paul Bernard, her first puppy love from decades past, introduces himself. Also present is a stalker bent on killing Alexandra for associations her mother once had. In addition, there are foreign agents focused on keeping Alexandra alive until they obtain an ingenious code her mother had developed during the Cold War. Alexandra and Paul are in a quandary - who can they trust?


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  • Lost in the world of European intelligence gathering in World War II, the reader follows the lives of the children of these agents as they unravel the secrets of their parents' dangerous careers. Alexandra Belliveau and Paul Bernard are joyfully reunited after forty years and become entangled in the lingering tensions of the war. They risk their lives to find the truth, travelling across Europe to meet members of the Fourth Reich, enlisting the help of the CIA, MI6 and others, who can't always be trusted. Their love affair is given added spice by their encounters with neo-Nazis, accidents on their Harleys, kidnapping and tea with Sir James on the White Cliffs of Dover.
    - Sally Jenkins, editor
  • H.B. Dumont has skilfully presented a riveting tale of intrigue and human emotion through the compelling mastery of the quill. The author weaves words of dialogue and description of the most tender human passion and sociopathic brutal violence. This novel is a gripping and dynamic novel with wide appeal.
    - Lynn Denise, author & coach for writers
  • Through mastery of the English language, H.B. Dumont has written a gripping and dynamic tale of espionage and intelligence gathering with a backdrop of Cold War Europe with tentacles reaching back to World War II. It is a brilliant portrait of the human experience.
    - Hugh Carter, author


About SPINE OF THE ANTIQUARIAN

Second novel in the Noir Intelligence Series

Doctors Alexandra Belliveau, a police forensic psychologist, and Paul Bernard, a crime laboratory director, have their inaugural retirement celebration interrupted with an upsurge in terrorist attacks. Their investigation reveals a connection between Islamic terrorists and an olden secret society stretching back to the French Gallic period, and into modern-day financial institutions. A Police nationale officer is assassinated along with an informant; a Moscow agent is wounded in the same ambush. Corruption is suspected at a senior level within both the police and government bureaucracy. Alexandra and Paul find themselves having to consider rapprochement with former enemies who were once on opposite sides of the Cold War divide.


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  • Spine of the Antiquarian is an emotionally complex yet powerful portrayal of the arcane world of espionage and intelligence in which there are truths, partial truths and make-believe truths. It is a gripping tale of people driven by their compulsions.
    - Sally Jenkins, editor
  • H.B. Dumont has once again demonstrated a mastery of the quill, weaving words of dialogue and description within the art of storytelling. She has artfully merged her experience with security and intelligence into the realm of factual fiction.
    - Ben Maure, author
  • Spine of the Antiquarian is expertly plotted as a portrayal of the continual search of what could have been. Dumont clearly understands the psychological essence of relationships.
    - Charlotte Edwards, registered clinical counsellor


About KISS OF THE DEATH ADDER

Third novel in the Noir Intelligence Series

Herr Rafael Blosch was about to reveal unknown details regarding the enigmatic Quer when he was fatally bitten by a death adder that had crawled up through a dank, discoloured cavity in the floor of his sweltering cell in the Desert Springs Interrogation Facility. The rapacious Quer, with its roots in the olden Gallic Celtic period, had modern day tentacles reaching into international financial institutions including the European Union. All but one member of the Quer had been captured with Herr Blosch and assumed to be still in safe custody in the same interrogation facility. But with their subsequent assassinations, the mission for Alexandra Belliveau and Paul Bernard, agents of the European Union Intelligence Unit, was changed from capturing or killing the one final elusive member of the Quer to keeping him alive, at all costs.


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  • This third mystery novel in the Noir Intelligence Series is a profound and powerful portrayal of human emotion as characters risk their lives to discover truths, the boundaries of which subtly shift as the story unfolds. From the opening pages, the sense of foreboding builds. The plot is twisted, the relationships are intimate. It's unforgettable.
    - Sally Jenkins, editor
  • H.B. Dumont's thorough research into the settings and her lived experience in intelligence work make this series deliciously immersive. Reading novels of this calibre is far better than anything 'virtual reality' could hope to offer!
    - Bruce Batchelor, editor/publisher
  • Kiss of the Death Adder is an espionage and intelligence fiction of the highest order that explores a poignant contrast between irrepressible human hope and the constraints within which we live our finite lives. Through the art of storytelling, and compelling dialogue and description, H.B. Dumont brilliantly weaves together secrets of the past, treachery of the present and duplicity of the future.
    - Hugh Carter, author


About ASSASSIN IN MY BED

Fourth novel in the Noir Intelligence Series

Alicia Dupuis could not comprehend why she had become a target for assassination and, more puzzling, who had ordered the hit. She was acutely aware that in the duplicitous currency of security and intelligence, nothing exists without context. More importantly, intelligence and context were askew on the periphery of espionage where there were truths, partial truths and make-believe truths. Such were the defining characteristics of the arcane game -- with its intoxicating charm and deceptive addiction -- that she had walked away from forever, or so she had thought.


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  • Nothing was what it seemed. Alicia's house was also an escape tunnel. Her vows of silence conflicted with her wedding vows. She kept secrets about secrets. Remember every detail because the story will twist and turn, and you need to keep your wits about you. Watch your back. Guard your children. Tuck your passport into this book and keep it safe. You will need it.
    - Sally Jenkins, Editor
  • Assassin in My Bed is a tale of love and infidelity, loyalty and betrayal, vulnerability and potency in the geopolitical arena of espionage and intelligence. Readers will find layers within layers of compelling intrigue like sinister Russian dolls.
    - Hugh Carter, Author
  • From the opening scene, there is a sense of foreboding, sometimes beautiful, always unforgettable. Dumont explores a poignant contrast between irrepressible human hope and the constraints within which we live our finite lives. My favourite book in the Noir Intelligence Series to date.
    - Sherry McIntosh, Editor


About GUNPOWDER TREASON AND PLOT

Fifth novel in the Noir Intelligence Series

In November of 1978, Constable Olivia Daniels and her trainer Constable Stan Polanski are dispatched to investigate a suspicious shooting in a Nova Scotia barn. Within minutes of arrival, they are ordered to turn the investigation over to RCMP Security Service, but not before Olivia stealthily photographs the crime scene with her own camera. There certainly seems to be something 'untoward underfoot'.

Their careers are immediately altered as are their personal lives. In the ensuing decades, innocent voices are silenced, incriminating evidence concealed, internal corruption suspected. Then, a chance meeting in an airport lounge triggers a cascade of revelations and events that threaten to bring down highly-connected spies, with potential global repercussions.


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  • Make sure you have plenty of time to read Gunpowder, Treason and Plot. Once you pick it up, the details and the drama send you on a grand, sizzling, knife-edge adventure that won't let you rest until you've followed the many interlinking plot threads to the clever and satisfying denouement.
    - Sally Jenkins, Editor
  • Once again, Dumont has demonstrated a mastery of the quill in creating fiction - or is it the reality of fact? This novel is steeped in the ambience of stealth and clandestine relationships as defined by the Cold War. The players wend their way along murky pathways of intrigue, some traditional, others contemporary, all enigmatically connected. Ultimately, there are no peace dividends to cash in... if there ever were.
    - Hugh Carter, author
  • The author's ease of weaving what appears to be fact and fiction takes the reader on a fast-paced journey through the Cold War that appears not to have ended. Perhaps my favorite Noir Intelligence novel to date.
    - Sherry McIntosh, editor


About THE 14TH COBBLESTONE

Sixth novel in the Noir Intelligence Series

Andrew Dumont returns to Paris where he once lived as a teenager with his parents, and later vacationed as an adult. Like on previous trips, he buys a lottery ticket. Unlike previous purchases, he wins. Life changes in ways unimaginable.

He recognizes the lawyer who helps him claim his lottery windfall as a childhood friend. They re-discover a document they had initially unearthed decades before. They are hunted by those named in the document linked to deeds committed on D-Day 6 June 1944 by members of the Nazi Gestapo and the French Maquis. Agents of the European Union Intelligence Unit are assigned to protect them due to the geopolitical implications, a task easier said than done.


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  • This intriguing novel leads the reader to a historic urban estate in Paris newly bought by a widowed Canadian, Andrew Dupont. He meets Monique, a lawyer who helps him claim a newfound lottery winning. They were in love as teenagers and the circle is turning. Luckily the urban estate has high security installed by the enigmatic previous owner, because they are going to need it. Revenge, loyalty to previous generations, payback for their disappearance, subterfuge and murder underlie the meetings in enchanting French cafés where passwords are de rigueur.
    - Sally Jenkins, editor and author
  • H.B. Dumont has deftly crafted another noir intelligence novel that exposes the distillation of emotions as the reality of violence and retribution merge against the backdrop of events that vividly bring to life ghosts of D-Day, 6 June 1944. That war may never be over for friends drawn together a half a century later with the rediscovery of a document that reveals an assassination plot with its potential to alter the geopolitical landscape. Characters are relentless, some ruthless, as they manoeuvre through the landscape marred with truths, partial truths and make-believe truths.
    - Hugh Carter, author
  • The reader will appreciate that The 14th Cobblestone has plot, atmosphere and emotion in most generous portions. We see that the past is very much alive in the present: driving both the very best and the worst evil in this diverse cast of characters. And who can resist a novel set in Paris?
    - Bruce Batchelor, author and editor

To arrange an interview with H.B. Dumont, please contact the publisher at bruce.batchelor [at] gmail.com.



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