Thomas H. Cook è celebrato per la sua profondità psicologica e la sua prosa lirica. Le sue opere si addentrano negli aspetti più oscuri della psiche umana, esplorando le motivazioni dei personaggi con notevole acume. Cook costruisce magistralmente la suspense attraverso un linguaggio scelto con cura e uno stile narrativo fluido. La sua scrittura si distingue per la qualità letteraria e la capacità di immergere i lettori in storie complesse e avvincenti.
"Red Leaves: "Eric Moore has reason to be happy. He has a prosperous business, a comfortable home, a stable family life in a quiet town. Then, on an ordinary night, his teenage son Keith is asked to babysit the eight-year-old daughter of a neighbouring family. The next morning the girl is missing."--Page 4 of cover. The Murmur of Stones: "Diana's certain her son didn't die accidentally - she's sure her husband murdered him. And she's going to prove it."--Page 4 of cover.
»Ein Meisterwerk des subtilen Schreckens« Als der kleine Jason im Teich hinter dem Haus ertrinkt, kann seine Mutter Diana es nicht verwinden. Sie beschuldigt ihren Mann, den eigenen Sohn ermordet zu haben, und verhält sich immer manischer. Gleitet auch sie, wie zuvor schon ihr Vater, in den Wahnsinn ab? Dianas Bruder David, der immer im Schatten seiner Schwester gestanden hat, fürchtet schon bald um die Unversehrtheit seiner eigenen Familie …
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.
Le storie di true crime hanno un fascino irresistibile, spingendoci a esplorare un cuore di tenebra che ci circonda. Questo libro presenta quindici racconti di crimine reale, scritti da celebri giornalisti investigativi e selezionati da James Ellroy. La potenza di queste narrazioni risiede nella straordinaria qualità degli autori e nella diversità dei temi trattati. Peter Landesman indaga sulla schiavitù sessuale di migliaia di ragazze arrivate negli Stati Uniti con false promesse di lavoro e un futuro migliore. David Grann racconta la strana morte di un fan di Sherlock Holmes, un evento che sembra uscito da un romanzo di Conan Doyle. Jeff Dietz accompagna un agente dell'FBI lungo il confine tra Texas e Messico, cercando le tracce degli immigrati clandestini. Inoltre, troviamo le riflessioni di Nancy Gibb scritte a meno di trenta ore dall'attacco alle Torri Gemelle, e l'analisi di Clive Thompson sui rischi degli allegati e-mail. Il volume si chiude con un racconto di Ellroy, che esplora l'influenza di Joseph Wambaugh sulla sua scrittura.
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.
Three individuals have witnessed the presence of extraterrestrials on Earth. For sixty years, the government has sought to conceal the truth, but these three cannot forget what they have seen.
In his latest novel of unrelenting suspense, Edgar Award —winning author Thomas Cook journeys into the darkest corners of the human heart to tell a mesmerizing story of crime and retribution–and the forces that push even good people to the breaking point. THE INTERROGATION Albert Jay Smalls sits in an interrogation room accused of an unspeakable crime. The police have no witnesses, no physical evidence, but they are certain he is hiding the truth. With less than twelve hours before he must be released, Smalls will be put through one final interrogation. I It is a search that leads into the shadowed recesses of one man’s shattered mind–and to the devastating secrets buried in a desolate seaside town. It is a quest that takes three desperate cops down a dark, twisting road as they race against the clock to find out what really happened one rainy autumn afternoon in 1952. The answers will be more shocking than anyone can imagine, blurring the boundaries between pursuers and prey, between the innocent and the guilty, between the truth that sets us free and the tragedies that haunt us to the grave. Against a gripping backdrop of murder and redemption, master storyteller Thomas Cook probes the uneasy, shifting bonds of family, love, and unbearable loss, proving once again why he is “perhaps the best American writer of crime fiction currently practicing” (Drood Review). From the Hardcover edition.
In autumn 1937, a mysterious woman arrives in Port Alma, a coastal village in Maine, bringing with her a wealth of unspoken secrets. This fragile, green-eyed beauty, with nothing but the clothes on her back, will soon leave the village on the same bus that brought her, but not before irrevocably altering the lives of two brothers—one will die, and the other will spiral into madness. Dora March, the enigmatic newcomer, is hired by the wealthiest man in town, who soon dies, leaving her everything in his will. The townspeople gossip, suggesting she was only after his money and even insinuating her involvement in his demise. Yet, she departs as mysteriously as she arrived, telling lawyers she wants nothing. Her presence deeply impacts the two brothers: one falls in love and tragically dies, while the other believes Dora is to blame and becomes obsessed with finding her to seek revenge. This haunting tale explores themes of love, loss, and obsession, making it a compelling addition to contemporary American literature.
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?
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.
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.
Zur Zeit der Bürgerrechtsbewegung löst der Mord an einem jungen Mädchen in Birmingham, Alabama, Rassenkonflikte aus. Das Grab auf dem Fußballfeld ist flach und aus der Ferne leicht zu erkennen. Es wäre früher entdeckt worden, hätten die meisten Bewohner des schwarzen Teils von Birmingham nicht in der Innenstadt demonstriert, gesungen und sich zusammen mit Martin Luther King, Jr. festnehmen lassen. Polizeidetektiv Ben Wellman ist unter ihnen, als er den Anruf über das frische Grab erhält. Unter dem locker aufgeschütteten Erdreich findet er ein junges schwarzes Mädchen, dessen Unschuld und Leben genommen wurden. Sein Sergeant beauftragt Wellman mit der Untersuchung, weist ihn jedoch an, sich nicht zu sehr anzustrengen. Im Sommer 1963 ist Birmingham angespannt genug, ohne eine Menschenjagd nach den Mördern eines schwarzen Kindes. Wellman sucht trotz Skepsis aus der schwarzen Gemeinschaft und Verachtung von seinen Kollegen nach der Wahrheit. Was er findet, ist ein Geheimnis, das Männer von beiden Seiten der Stadt lieber begraben sehen würden.
Vor fast vier Jahrzehnten ist ein junges Mädchen auf einer Bergstraße spurlos verschwunden – nur sein blutiges Kleid wurde im Wald gefunden. Ein Mann aus dem Dorf gestand den Mord, seitdem irrt die Mutter des Mädchens umher auf der Suche nach dem Leichnam ihres Kindes. Jackson Kinley wuchs im selben Ort auf, bevor er nach New York übersiedelte, um Kriminalromane nach wahren Begebenheiten zu schreiben. Als er zur Beerdigung seines Freundes, des Kriminalkommissars Ray Tindall, kommt, stellt er fest, daß dieser sich in den letzten Wochen seines Lebens mit dem mysteriösen Mordfall befaßt hat. Aus purer Neugier beschließt Ray, der Sache nachzugehen. Was er am Ende herausfindet, verändert sein ganzes Leben.
