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Best-selling suspense author Mary Higgins Clark invites you on a
tour of Manhattan's most iconic neighborhoods in this anthology of
all-new stories from Mystery Writers of America, produced to
commemorate its 70th anniversary. In Lee Child's The Picture of the
Lonely Diner, legendary drifter Jack Reacher interrupts a curious
stand-off in the shadow of the Flatiron Building. In Jeffery
Deaver's The Baker of Bleecker Street, an Italian immigrant becomes
ensnared in WWII espionage. And in The Five-Dollar Dress, Mary
Higgins Clark unearths the contents of a mysterious hope chest
found in an apartment on Union Square. With additional stories from
T. Jefferson Parker, S. J. Rozan, Nancy Pickard, Ben H. Winters,
Brendan DuBois, Persia Walker, Jon L. Breen, N. J. Ayres, Angela
Zeman, Thomas H. Cook, Judith Kelman, Margaret Maron, Justin Scott,
and Julie Hyzy, Manhattan Mayhem is teeming with red herrings,
likely suspects, and thoroughly satisfying mysteries. Illustrated
with iconic photography of New York City and packaged in a handsome
hardcover, Manhattan Mayhem is a delightful read for armchair
detectives and armchair travelers alike!
Haunted by the suicide of his friend, the true crime writer Julian
Wells, Philip Anders starts to reread his books. And in their
pages, he starts to glimpse a darkness that might drive a man to
suicide. In an effort to understand Julian's death, Anders travels
to Paris, revisiting the places that Julian used as the research
and settings for his books. But even as he embarks on this personal
quest, Anders is plagued by the memory of a woman the two men once
knew. And he comes to wonder if her disappearance, long ago, may be
the crime that drove his friend to take his own life...
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Sandrine's Case (Paperback)
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Shortlisted for the 2014 Edgar Award and Barry Award for Best Novel
Thomas H. Cook is peerless in finding the humanity behind crime. In
one of his greatest novels yet, a man explores unspools the history
of his fractured relationship with his wife, as he stands trial for
her murder.
Samuel Madison always wondered why Sandrine chose him. He was a
meek, stuffy doctorate student; she a brilliant bohemian with
limitless imagination. On the surface, their relationship seemed
tranquil: jobs at the same liberal arts college, a precocious young
daughter, and a home filled with art and literature. And then one
night Sandrine is found dead in their bedroom from an overdose of
pain medication and alcohol, and Samuel is accused of poisoning
her.
As secrets about their often tumultuous marriage come to light in
the courtroom, Samuel must face a town convinced of his guilt, a
daughter whose faith in her father has been shaken to its core, and
the truth about his wife, who never ceased being a mystery to him.
"Sandrine's Case" is a powerful novel about the evil that can lurk
within the heart of a seemingly ordinary man, and whether love can
be reawakened even after death.
"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...
Thomas Cook has always been drawn to dark places, for the powerful
emotions they evoke and for what we can learn from them. These
lessons are often unexpected and sometimes profoundly intimate, but
they are never straightforward. With his wife and daughter, Cook
travels across the globe in search of darkness-from Lourdes to
Ghana, from San Francisco to Verdun, from the monumental,
mechanized horror of Auschwitz to the intimate personal grief of a
shrine to dead infants in Kamukura, Japan. Along the way he
reflects on what these sites may teach us, not only about human
history, but about our own personal histories. During the course of
a lifetime of traveling to some of earth's most tragic locals, from
the leper colony on Molokai to ground zero at Hiroshima, he finds
not only darkness, but a light that can illuminate the darkness
within each of us. Written in vivid prose, this is at once a
personal memoir of exploration (both external and internal) and a
strangely heartening look at the radiance and optimism that may be
found at the very heart of darkness.
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Blood Innocents (Paperback)
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In Thomas H. Cook's Edgar Award-nominated first novel, a weary
detective tracks a blood-crazed psychopath Blood seeps into the
gutters at the children's zoo in Central Park. Two deer have been
slaughtered, one stabbed fifty-seven times and the other slashed
across the neck. Normally it would be a case for the Parks
Department, but these are no ordinary deer. The pride of the small
menagerie, they were given to the zoo by a prominent socialite who
cannot afford bloody headlines. The NYPD hands the case to
Detective Reardon, star of the homicide squad. A recent widower at
fifty-six, Reardon has seen too many human victims to care much
about the two butchered animals. He resents being taken off other
pressing cases for the sake of politics, but soon another killing
snaps him to attention. Two women are found dead in their
apartment, one stabbed fifty-seven times and the other with her
throat cut. Surely this vicious parallel isn't a coincidence....
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."
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.
Thieves, liars, and killers--it's a criminal world out there,
and someone has to write about it. A thrilling collection of the
year's best reportage by the aces of the true-crime genre, "The
Best American Crime Reporting 2009" brings together the mysteries
and missteps of an eclectic and unforgettable set of criminals.
Gripping, suspenseful, and brilliant, this latest addition to the
highly acclaimed series features guest editor Jeffrey Toobin, "New
Yorker" staff writer, CNN senior legal analyst, and bestselling
author of "The Nine."
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.While conducting a class on evil
throughout history, 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 the investigation
turns in an unexpected direction, 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
well-intentioned men.
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Red Leaves (Paperback)
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"Thomas Cook writes like a wounded angel, and "Red Leaves" is one
of his masterworks."--Peter Straub
Eric Moore has a stable 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. Caught in
a vortex of doubt and lies, Eric must find out what happened to Amy
Giordano before his--and the community's--suspicions about Keith
are proved right. An Edgar Award Nominee for Best Novel
"Red Leaves is both heart-wrenching and gut-wrenching. A family can
be 'briefly held, ' and yet so enduring."--"New York Daily
News
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"[Cook is] one of the most suspenseful of crime-fiction writers . .
. Readers will glimpse blurred snapshots from their own lives--and
be afraid."--"Cleveland Plain Dealer
""This disturbing exploration of humans' true motives . . . builds
to a rapid and unexpected climax."--"Newsweek
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THOMAS H. COOK has been nominated for the Edgar Allan Poe Award
five times in four different categories, and won the Edgar for Best
Novel for "The Chatham School Affair," He lives in New York City
and Cape Cod.
"[Diana's] inexorable descent into mania, narrated by her brother
Dave, is as gripping as the mystery itself. A-"--"Entertainment
Weekly
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David Sears grew up in the shadow of his brilliant sister, Diana,
told by their schizophrenic father that she would accomplish great
things. But when she becomes convinced that her husband murdered
their drowned son, David doesn't know what to believe. Has their
family history of mental illness finally caught up with her? Or
could Diana be on to the truth? In "The Cloud of Unknowing," Cook
explores the power of blood and family mythology.
"What's at stake isn't so much the resolution of a mystery as the
integrity of a family."--"Time Out New York
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"So spare and precise, it feels as if it has been chiseled in stone
with something like a surgical instrument."--Joyce Carol Oates
Thomas H. Cook is the author of nineteen novels and two works of
nonfiction. He has been nominated for the Edgar Award seven times
in five different categories, including Best Novel for "Red
Leaves," which was also nominated for a Barry and a Duncan Lawrie
Dagger. His novel "The Chatham School Affair" won the Edgar for
Best Novel. He lives in New York City and Cape Cod. An Otto Penzler
Book
David Sears grew up in the shadow of his brilliant sister, Diana,
convinced by their father that she would accomplish great things.
Instead, she married and had a son, Jason, wholike David and Dianas
fatheris schizophrenic. Her husband, Mark, a geneticist, never made
peace with Jasons condition. Perhaps this is why Diana will not
accept the authorities conclusion that Jasons drowning death was
accidental. Or perhaps Diana is going mad. As she builds a case
against her husband and the seductive qualities of her manic energy
become impossible to ignore, David finds himself afraid for his own
familys safety. In The Cloud of Unknowing, Cook explores the power
of blood and family mythology.
Over his acclaimed career, Cook's novels have haunted, riveted, and
spellbound readers across the world, and his short stories are
equally acclaimed. They range from the intensely focused world of
"Fatherhood," the Herodotus prize-winning title story, to the Edgar
nominated "Rain," a dark, kaleidoscopic tale of Manhattan on a
single, rain-swept night. "The Fix," the story of a famous boxing
fix that was, well, not a fix at all, was selected for inclusion in
Best Mystery Stories of the Year. "What She Offered," the gripping
tale of a one-night stand, was included in The Best Noir Stories of
the Century. Like Cook's novels, the range of this collection is,
itself, astonishing. From a backwoods Appalachian shack during the
Depression ("Poor People") to a Midwestern college campus in the
throes of Sixties revolt ("The Sun-Gazer") to a midtown Manhattan
bookstore on Christmas Eve, "The Lessons of the Season," this
collection demonstrates precisely that, in the words of Michael
Connolly, "no one tells a story better than Thomas H. Cook."
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