Thomas H. Cook wordt geprezen om zijn psychologische diepgang en lyrische proza. Zijn werken duiken in de donkerdere aspecten van de menselijke psyche en onderzoeken de motivaties van personages met opmerkelijk inzicht. Cook bouwt meesterlijk spanning op door zorgvuldig gekozen taal en een vloeiende verhalende stijl. Zijn schrijven valt op door literaire kwaliteit en het vermogen om lezers onder te dompelen in complexe, boeiende verhalen.
They call Eddie Miller 'The Coed Killer's Son' because when Eddie was five years old, his father killed a college girl, dismembered her body, and buried the pieces in woods. Where Eddie's family name has brought only infamy, Jack's has bestowed respect. To exorcise the burden, his teacher Jack encourages Eddie to confront past and discover truth about his father.
A tale of constipation and greed in an a small Texas town during the summer when a traveller return.
In this affecting crime novel, shortlisted for both the Edgar and the Duncan Lawrie Dagger, Eric Moore watches his safe, solid world disintegrate. When eight-year-old Amy Giordano disappears from her family's house, while Keith, Eric's teenage son, is babysitting, Keith becomes an obvious suspect, and even his parents have misgivings. As time passes without Amy being found, a corrosive suspicion seeps into every aspect of Eric's life. That suspicion is fed by Eric's shaky family history - a father whose plans failed, an alcoholic older brother, a younger sister who died aged seven and a mother driven to suicide. Not even Eric's loving wife, Meredith, is immune from his doubts as he begins to examine and re-examine every aspect of his life. The totally unexpected resolution is both shocking and perfectly apt.
Attorney Henry Griswald has a secret: the truth behind the tragic events the world knew as the Chatham School Affair, the controversial tragedy that destroyed five lives, shattered a quiet community, and forever scarred the young boy. Layer by layer, in The Chatham School Affair, Cook paints a stunning portrait of a woman, a school, and a town in which passionate violence seems impossible...and inevitable. "Thomas Cook's night visions, seen through a lens darkly, are haunting," raved the New York Times Book Review, and The Chatham School Affair will cement this superb writer's position as one of crime fiction's most prodigious talents, a master of the unexpected ending.
Thomas Cook is one of today's most acclaimed writers of psychological thrillers, penning hypnotic tales of forbidden love and devastating secrets. Now he has written an unforgettable novel that weaves one man's tortured life with a deadly mystery that spans five decades....Riverwood is an artists' community in the Hudson River valley, a serene place where writers can perfect their craft. But for all its beauty and isolation, it was once touched by a terrible crime--the murder of a teenage girl who lived on the estate fifty years ago. Faye Harrison's killer was never caught--and now her dying mother is desperate to learn the truth about her daughter's murder.Enter Paul Graves, a writer who draws upon the pain of his own tragic past to write haunting tales of mystery. Graves has been summoned to Riverwood for an unusual to apply the art of fiction to a crime that was real, and then write a story that will answer the questions that keep Faye's mother from a peaceful death. Just a story. It doesn't have to be true. Or does it?
Sara Labriola is a married woman haunted by the shattering secrets of her past—and terrified of the future. Tired of living in fear—and knowing that if she stays in her marriage she'll be killed—Sara decides to do the only thing she she makes herself disappear.One afternoon, without telling a soul, she packs a single suitcase and leaves her life in Long Island behind. In New York City, she will reinvent herself. She will change her identity, and maybe even get the happy ending she's always dreamed of. But that dream is about to become a nightmare when her father-in-law decides to make her pay for abandoning his son.Leo Labriola runs his modest but lucrative criminal organization like he does his family—with unspeakable brutality and zero tolerance for disobedience. He's determined to teach Sara a lesson and he'll stop at nothing to do it. Now six differently desperate and dangerous men—each with the power to destroy her—are on Sara's trail. But none of them suspect that the woman they are seeking has a dangerous secret of her own. For Sara is leading all of them down a path of private demons, past sins, and the deadliest peril.
DIE TOTE VON ATLANTA Angelica Devereaux, eine junge Frau, deren magischer Anziehungskraft sich keiner entziehen konnte, wird ermordet aufgefunden. Polizeioffizier Frank Clemons pendelt zwischen den Luxusvierteln der Reichen und den Ghettos von Atlanta hin und her, um den Tod der Kindfrau und die Geheimnisse ihres Lebens aufzuklären. BLUTSPUREN In den letzten Wochen vor seinem Tod hat sich Kriminalkommissar Ray Tindall mit einem mysteriösen Mädchenmord befasst, der vor vier Jahrzehnten geschah und nie völlig aufgeklärt wurde. Aus purer Neugier beschließt sein Freund, der Sache nachzugehen. Was er herausfindet, verändert sein ganzes Leben.
Der obdachlose Jay Smalls wird beschuldigt, ein Mädchen erwürgt zu haben, leugnet jedoch die Tat. Die Ermittler Norman Cohen und Jack Pierce sind von seiner Schuld überzeugt und wollen ihn einem letzten Verhör unterziehen, bevor sie ihn in zwölf Stunden freilassen müssen. Es beginnt ein Wettlauf gegen die Zeit.
