Thomas H. Cook

Thomas H. Cook (born September 19, 1947) is an American author, whose 1996 novel The Chatham School Affair received an Edgar award from the Mystery Writers of America.

Biography

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.

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. It 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.

Eight of his works have been nominated for awards, including Red Leaves in 2006, which was also shortlisted for the Crime Writers' Association's Duncan Lawrie Dagger and the Anthony Award, and went on to win the Barry Award and the Martin Beck Award.

Cook lives with his family in Cape Cod and New York City and Los Angeles.

Publications

Blood Innocents (Playboy, 1980)

The Orchids (Houghton Mifflin, 1982). ISBN 039532503X

Tabernacle (Houghton Mifflin, 1983). ISBN 0395343968

Elena (Houghton Mifflin, 1986). ISBN 0395356326

Sacrificial Ground (Putnam, 1988). ISBN 0399133399

Flesh and Blood (Putnam, 1989). ISBN 0399134093

Streets of Fire (Putnam, 1989). ISBN 0399134905

Early Graves (Dutton, 1990). ISBN 0525249184

Night Secrets (Putnam, 1990). ISBN 0399135278

The City When It Rains (Putnam, 1991). ISBN 0399135553

Evidence of Blood (Putnam, 1991). ISBN 0399136681

Blood Echoes (Dutton, 1992). ISBN 0525933999

Mortal Memory (Putnam, 1993). ISBN 0399138293

Breakheart Hill (Bantam, 1995). ISBN 0553096516

The Chatham School Affair (Bantam, 1996). ISBN 0553096524

Instruments of Night (Bantam, 1998). ISBN 055310554X

Places in the Dark (Bantam, 2000). ISBN 0553105639

The Interrogation (Bantam, 2002). ISBN 0553800957

Taken: A Novelization (Dell, 2002). ISBN 044024126X

Moon Over Manhattan, with Larry King, (New Millennium Press, 2003). ISBN 1893224570

Peril (Bantam, 2004). ISBN 0553800981

Into the Web (Bantam, 2004). ISBN 0553580922

Red Leaves (Harcourt, 2005). ISBN 0151012504

The Murmur of Stones (Quercus, 2006)(published in the US as The Cloud of Unknowing, Harcourt, 2007). ISBN 978-0151012602

Master of the Delta (Harcourt, 2008). ISBN 978-0151012541

The Best American Crime Reporting 2008, (with Jonathan Kellerman and Otto Penzler), (Harper Perennial, 2008). ISBN 978-0061490835

The Fate of Katherine Carr (2009). ISBN 978-0151014019

The Last Talk with Lola Faye (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010). ISBN 978-0151014071

The Quest for Anna Klein (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011). ISBN 978-0547364643

The Crime of Julian Wells (Mysterious Press, 2012). ISBN 978-0802126030

Sandrine's Case (Mysterious Press, 2013). ISBN 978-0802126085

Fatherhood and Other Stories (Pegasus Press, 2013). ISBN 1605984671

A Dancer in the Dust (Grove/Atlantic/Mysterious, 2015), ISBN 978-0-8021-2272-8

Even Darkness Sings (Pegasus Press, 2018). ISBN 1681778475