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. ^[1]

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. ^[2]

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. ^[2] 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. ^[3]

Six of his novels 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.

Awards and honors

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

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