Background
Thomas H. Cook was born in Fort Payne, Alabama, and holds a bachelor"s degree from Georgia State College, a master"s degree in American History from Hunter College, and a Master of Philosophy degree from Columbia University.
(Recounts the prolonged agony of the Alday family as they ...)
Recounts the prolonged agony of the Alday family as they are continually asked to testify in court about a 1973 crime during which six family members were brutally killed by escaped convicts. By the author of Early Graves. 15,000 first printing.
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(Edgar Award winner Thomas H. Cook has earned acclaim and ...)
Edgar Award winner Thomas H. Cook has earned acclaim and a growing legion of fans for his brilliantly styled, intensely evocative thrillers. Now, in his most seductive suspense novel yet, he draws us into a world of love, betrayal, and murder from which one man can find no escape. "It's better to know, don't you think?... No matter what the cost?" Forty years ago in Sequoyah, Georgia, Charles Overton was sentenced to die for the murder of a young woman, even though her body was never found. But the prosecution had all the ammunition it needed: a blood-stained dress and a jury out for vengeance.... Now true-crime writer Jackson Kinley is coming home to grieve for an old friend. But Sequoyah sheriff Ray Tindall's death has left many questions: Why had he reopened the Overton case... and then, without explanation, shut it down? What was he looking for? And what did he find that he couldn't bear to reveal? The search for answers leads Kinley into a small-town web of corruption, secrecy, and lies--and finally into the darkest corners of the human heart, where the terrible truth lies...in the Evidence of Blood.
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(Along with Jamie and my mother, Laura died at approximate...)
Along with Jamie and my mother, Laura died at approximately four in the afternoon. It was almost two hours later that Mrs. Hamilton, a neighbor from across the street, saw my father drive away. During those long two hours in which he remained in the house, my father washed my mother's body and arranged her neatly on the bed. After that, he made a ham sandwich and ate it at the table in the kitchen. He drank a cup of coffee, leaving both the plate and the cup in the sink. He didn't pack anything, because he left with nothing. He didn't reenter either Laura's of Jamie's room. He made no attempt to clean up the frightful mess that had been made of them. And yet, for no apparent reason, he remained in the house for a full two hours. What had he been waiting for?
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With The Crime of Julian Wells, Thomas H. Cook, one of America's most acclaimed suspense writers, has written a novel in the grand tradition of the twisty, cerebral thriller. It's a mystery of identity, a journey into the maze of a mysterious life. When famed true-crime writer Julian Wells' body if found in a boat drifting on a Montauk pond, the question is not how he died, but why? The death is obviously a suicide. But why would Julian Wells have taken his own life? And was this his only crime? These are the questions that first intrigue and then obsess Philip Anders, Wells' best friend and the chief defender of both his moral and his literary legacies. Anders' increasingly passionate and dangerous quest to answer these questions becomes a journey into a haunted life, one marked by travel, learning, achievement and adventure, a life that should have been celebrated, but whose lonely end points to terrors still unknown. Spanning four decades and traversing three continents, The Crime of Julian Wells is a journey into one man's heart of darkness than ends in a blaze of light. Praise for The Crime of Julian Wells "Philip's travels through three continents bring him in contact with a succession of unsavory people and deeper into a world that walks a fine line between appearance and reality. Cook's characterizations are richly balanced and finely nuanced, with a narrative driven more by psychological insight than pyrotechnics." -Los Angeles Times "Philip's own odyssey to find the meaning behind his friend's death is one of the many pleasures of Mr. Cook's intelligent and elegant work." -Wall Street Journal "Unfolds slowly but hauntingly... hearkens back to the best work of such authors as Eric Ambler and Graham Greene while standing firmly on its own." -BookReporter "Spellbinding." -Publishers Weekly "Cook knows how to spin a seductive tale." -Booklist "An homage to the Graham Greene school of spy novels erudite, layered, set in the modern day but with a distinctly antique overlay, all croquet and Proust and crumbling towers... a well-crafted story>" -Charlotte Observer "There’s not a single word too many in this novel. The author wanted to tell a story about love and loss, but also about personal and collective pain, and dress it in a coat of mystery and he did just that. This is not your usual crime novel." -Criminal Element "Thomas H. Cook has been crafting some of the best novels in the crime fiction genre for the past 30 years. And for all too many readers, this may be the first time you've ever heard of him. His latest novel, The Crime of Julian Wells, is an excellent addition to Cook's body of work." -Tulsa World "The mystery at the heart of Thomas H. Cook's new novel, The Crime of Julian Wells, emerges like the image on a jigsaw puzzle whose pieces the author dispenses, one by one, until the pattern emerges, complete and inevitable. In this elegant thriller, there are no sudden moves. Action is born of stillness and reflection while the crimes of the past, reluctantly exposed, bleed gradually but inexorably into the present." -Barnes & Noble Review
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(From the author hailed as "an important talent, a storyte...)
From the author hailed as "an important talent, a storytelling writer of poetic narrative power" (Los Angeles Times Book Review) comes a dazzling novel of psychological suspense. "This is the darkest story I've ever heard." With these haunting words, Thomas H. Cook begins a tale of love and its aftermath, of a town sent reeling from a moment of passionate betrayal. At its center was Kelli Troy and the town of Choctaw, Alabama. And on one hazy summer afternoon decades ago, a searing burst of violence engulfed Breakheart Hill. For one man who knows the truth about those shattering events, it is a memory that would become his awful secret.
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( George Gates used to be a travel writer who specialized...)
George Gates used to be a travel writer who specialized in places where people disappeared—Judge Crater, the Lost Colony.Then his eight-year-old son was murdered, the killer never found, and Gates gave up disappearance. Now he writes stories of redemptive triviality about flower festivals and local celebrities for the town paper, and spends his evenings haunted by the image of his son’s last day. Enter Arlo MacBride, a retired missing-persons detective still obsessed with the unsolved case of Katherine Carr. When he gives Gates the story she left behind—a story of a man stalking a woman named Katherine Carr—Gates too is drawn inexorably into a search for the missing author’s brief life and uncertain fate. And as he goes deeper, he begins to suspect that her tale holds the key not only to her fate, but to his own.
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( A photographer struggles to understand a stranger’s sui...)
A photographer struggles to understand a stranger’s suicide There’s nothing special about the woman’s death. It comes over the police radio like any other sad story: a woman found on the sidewalk, killed after plunging from her apartment. But something about the gruesome scene grabs David Corman’s attention. A freelance photographer with a defunct marriage and a career on the skids, he fixates on this mysterious death. Though near starvation, the woman had been buying formula to feed to a baby doll. Before she leapt, she tossed the plastic child out the window. David photographs the dead woman and her pretend child; although he’s jaded, the strange scene stirs his compassion, and he begins researching her past. He’s convinced that his job has shown him the worst the city has to offer. But learning the truth behind this futile suicide will teach David that New York is even uglier than he imagined.
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(Along with Jamie and my mother, Laura died at approximat...)
Along with Jamie and my mother, Laura died at approximately four in the afternoon. It was almost two hours later that Mrs. Hamilton, a neighbor from across the street, saw my father drive away. During those long two hours in which he remained in the house, my father washed my mother's body and arranged her neatly on the bed. After that, he made a ham sandwich and ate it at the table in the kitchen. He drank a cup of coffee, leaving both the plate and the cup in the sink. He didn't pack anything, because he left with nothing. He didn't reenter either Laura's of Jamie's room. He made no attempt to clean up the frightful mess that had been made of them. And yet, for no apparent reason, he remained in the house for a full two hours. What had he been waiting for?
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( Thieves, liars, killers, and conspirators—it's a crimin...)
Thieves, liars, killers, and conspirators—it's a criminal world out there, and someone has got to write about it. An eclectic collection of the year's best reportage, The Best American Crime Reporting 2008 brings together the murderers and the masterminds, the mysteries and missteps that make for brilliant stories, told by the aces of the true-crime genre. This latest addition to the highly acclaimed series features guest editor Jonathan Kellerman, bestselling author of more than twenty crime novels, most recently Compulsion and the forthcoming Bones.
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( Eric Moore has a prosperous business, a comfortable hom...)
Eric Moore has a prosperous business, a comfortable home, a stable family life in a quiet town. Then, on an ordinary night, his teenage son Keith babysits Amy Giordano, the eight-year-old daughter of a neighboring family. The next morning Amy is missing, and Eric isn't sure his son is innocent. In his desperate attempt to hold his family together by proving his-and the community's-suspicions wrong, Eric finds himself in a vortex of doubt and broken trust. What should he make of Keith's strange behavior? Of his wife's furtive phone calls to a colleague? Of his brother's hints that he knows things he's afraid to say? In a "heart-wrenching and gut-wrenching" (New York Daily News) race against time and mistrust, Eric must discover what has happened to Amy Giordano and face the long-buried family secrets he has so carefully ignored.
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(A novel featuring private eye Frank Clemons, hero of "Sac...)
A novel featuring private eye Frank Clemons, hero of "Sacrificial Ground" and "Blood Innocents". With his cohort, Farouk, Clemons encounters ancient mysteries and sacrificial rites amid the shadows of New York.
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“Cook has shown himself to be a writer of poetic gifts, constantly pushing against the presumed limits of crime fiction.” ―Los Angeles Times There’s nothing special about the woman’s death. It comes over the police radio like any other sad story: a woman found on the sidewalk, killed after plunging from her apartment. But something about the gruesome scene grabs David Corman’s attention. A freelance photographer with a defunct marriage and a career on the skids, he fixates on this mysterious death. But learning the truth behind this futile suicide will teach David that New York is even uglier than he imagined.
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(In 1963, discontent in the ghettoes of Birmingham, Alabam...)
In 1963, discontent in the ghettoes of Birmingham, Alabama is growing as civil rights marches hit the streets. When a young black girl is found buried in a ball park, Detective Wellman discovers that the more he probes into the death, the more resistance he encounters, from black and white alike.
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(The story of the life and crimes of the youngest woman on...)
The story of the life and crimes of the youngest woman on Death Row describes how pregnant, teenaged Judy encouraged her husband, Alvin, to go on a killing spree that left two little girls dead. Reprint.
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( In 1954 Mississippi, Jack Branch returns to his father’...)
In 1954 Mississippi, Jack Branch returns to his father’s Delta estate, Great Oaks, to perform an act of noblesse oblige: teaching at the local high school. Conducting a class on historical evil, Jack is shocked to discover that his unassuming student Eddie is the son of the Coed Killer, a notorious local murderer. Jack feels compelled to mentor the boy, encouraging Eddie to examine his father’s crime and using his own good name to open the doors that Eddie’s lineage can’t. But when Eddie’s investigation leads him to Great Oaks and to Jack’s own father, Jack finds himself questioning Eddie’s motives—and his own. As the deadly consequences of Jack’s actions fall inescapably into place, Thomas H. Cook masterfully reveals the darker truths that lurk in the recesses of small-town lives and in the hearts of even well-intentioned men.
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Titlee: Le crime de Julian Wells Author(s): Thomas H. Cook et Philippe Loubat-Delranc Publisher: Seuil Publishing year: 2015 Sate: Second Hand - Good ISBN : 9782021087062 Comment: Ammareal gives back up to 15% of this book's net price to charity organizations. Ammareal sells online second hand books provided by our partners which are associations and lbraries. A portion of the price of each book is donated to our partners or to charities. What we do not sell is given, what we do not give is recycled.
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(Multiple Edgar Award nominee Thomas H. Cook is the author...)
Multiple Edgar Award nominee Thomas H. Cook is the author of dark, terrifying thrillers like Places in the Dark and Red Leaves. In Master of the Delta, it's 1954 down in Mississippi and Jack Branch has finally come home, taking a job as a high school teacher. He soon learns that one of his students is the son of a notorious local murderer, the Coed Killer. And as they say, like father, like son.
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(En ocasiones, el pasado es una puerta que mas valdria dej...)
En ocasiones, el pasado es una puerta que mas valdria dejar cerrada. O al menos eso es lo que esta a punto de descubrir Jack Branch en este thriller donde la violencia se transmite de padres a hijos y las pegajosas sombras del delta del Missisipi esconden los mas terribles secretos. Branch, heredero de una familia de la clase alta sureña, lleva tres años dando clase en el instituto de Lakeland cuando descubre que, entre los alumnos de su popular curso sobre la naturaleza del mal, se encuentra Eddie Miller, el hijo de un hombre que tiempo atras torturo y asesino a una muchacha de la localidad / In 1954 Mississippi, Jack Branch returns to his fathers Delta estate, Great Oaks, to perform an act of noblesse oblige: teaching at the local high school. Conducting a class on historical evil, Jack is shocked to discover that his unassuming student Eddie is the son of the Coed Killer, a notorious local murderer. Jack feels compelled to mentor the boy, encouraging Eddie to examine his fathers crime and using his own good name to open the doors that Eddies lineage cant. But when Eddies investigation leads him to Great Oaks and to Jacks own father, Jack finds himself questioning Eddies motivesand his own.
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( Middling historian Lucas Paige visits St. Louis to give...)
Middling historian Lucas Paige visits St. Louis to give a sparsely attended reading—nothing out of the ordinary. Except among the yawning attendees is someone he did not expect: Lola Faye Gilroy, the “other woman” he has long blamed for his father’s murder decades earlier. Reluctantly, Luke joins Lola Faye for a drink. As one drink turns into several, these two battered souls relive, from their different perspectives, the most searing experience of their lives. Slowly but surely, the hotel bar dissolves around them and they are transported back to the tiny southern town where this defining moment—a violent crime of passion—is turned in the light once more to reveal flaws in the old answers. As it turns out, there is much Luke doesn’t know. And what he doesn’t know can hurt him. Trapped in an increasingly intense emotional exchange, and with no place to go save back into his own dark past, Luke struggles to gain control of an ever more threatening conversation, to discover why Lola Faye has come and what she is after—before it is too late. A taut literary thriller in the gothic tradition of Master of the Delta.
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“Nobody tells a story better than Thomas H. Cook.” —Michael Connelly ON THE EVE OF WORLD WAR II, A HIGH STAKES INTERNATIONAL PLOT LEADS TO A DEADLY OBSESSION Thomas Danforth has lived a fortunate life. The son of a wealthy importer, he wandered the globe in his youth, and now, in his twenties, he lives in New York City and runs the family business. It is 1939 and the world is on the brink of war, but his life is untroubled, his future assured. Then, on a snowy evening walk along Gramercy Park, a friend makes a fateful request—and involves Thomas in a dangerous idea that could change the fates of millions. Danforth is to provide access to his secluded Connecticut mansion, where a mysterious woman will receive training in firearms and explosives. Thus begins an international plot carried out by the strange and alluring Anna Klein—a plot that will ensnare Thomas in more ways than one. When it all goes wrong and Anna disappears, his quest across a war torn world begins…
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On a summer morning in 1926, a young woman alights from a bus in a Cape Cod village and embarks on an odyssey she cannot foresee. Chatham is a tiny seacoast town, boasting a main street with a few shops, a white-spired church, and Chatham School, an elite boys' academy dedicated to turning boisterous or insolent boys from good families into dutiful, moral young men. The school's new art teacher, Elizabeth Channing, has come from a world barely imaginable by the townspeople of Chatham to live in a small cottage beside Black Pond. She has spent her life traveling with her father, educated by him in the plazas of Madrid, along the canals of Venice, in the apartment overlooking Rome's Spanish Steps where John Keats died. Life must be seized, the passion of the artist must be served, morals are a restraint to the spirit - these are the lessons her father taught her. These are the lessons that will bring catastrophe to Elizabeth Channing, to the Chatham School headmaster's young son, and to Chatham itself.
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From the author hailed as "an important talent, a storytelling writer of poetic narrative power" (Los Angeles Times Book Review) comes a dazzling novel of psychological suspense. "This is the darkest story I've ever heard." With these haunting words, Thomas H. Cook begins a tale of love and its aftermath, of a town sent reeling from a moment of passionate betrayal. At its center was Kelli Troy and the town of Choctaw, Alabama. And on one hazy summer afternoon decades ago, a searing burst of violence engulfed Breakheart Hill. For one man who knows the truth about those shattering events, it is a memory that would become his awful secret.
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Thomas H. Cook was born in Fort Payne, Alabama, and holds a bachelor"s degree from Georgia State College, a master"s degree in American History from Hunter College, and a Master of Philosophy degree from Columbia University.
Columbia University.
From 1978 to 1981, Cook taught English and History at Dekalb Community College in Georgia, and served as book review editor for Atlanta magazine from 1978 to 1982, when he took up writing full-time. Cook began his first novel, Blood Innocents, while he was still in graduate school. lieutenant was published in 1980, and he has published steadily since then
A film version of one of his books, Evidence of Blood, was released in 1997.
Cook lives with his family in Cape Cod and New York City.
(The story of the life and crimes of the youngest woman on...)
(Recounts the prolonged agony of the Alday family as they ...)
(From the author hailed as "an important talent, a storyte...)
(From the author hailed as "an important talent, a storyte...)
( In 1954 Mississippi, Jack Branch returns to his father’...)
(On a summer morning in 1926, a young woman alights from a...)
( George Gates used to be a travel writer who specialized...)
( “Cook has shown himself to be a writer of poetic gifts,...)
( Thieves, liars, killers, and conspirators—it's a crimin...)
(In 1963, discontent in the ghettoes of Birmingham, Alabam...)
( A photographer struggles to understand a stranger’s sui...)
(A novel featuring private eye Frank Clemons, hero of "Sac...)
( Eric Moore has a prosperous business, a comfortable hom...)
(Along with Jamie and my mother, Laura died at approximat...)
(Along with Jamie and my mother, Laura died at approximate...)
(En ocasiones, el pasado es una puerta que mas valdria dej...)
(La Hojas Rojas (Red Leaves Spanish Edition) by Thomas H. ...)
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( “Nobody tells a story better than Thomas H. Cook.” —Mic...)
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( Middling historian Lucas Paige visits St. Louis to give...)
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