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Thomas H Cook


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Thomas H. Cook is the author of eighteen books, including two works of true crime. His novels have been nominated for the Edgar Allan Poe Award, the Macavity Award and the Dashiell Hammett Prize. The Chatham School Affair won the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Novel in 1996. His true crime book, Blood Echoes, was nominated for the Edgar Allan Poe Award in 1992, and his story "Fatherhood" won the Herodotus Prize in 1998 and was included in Best Mystery Stories of 1998, edited by Otto Penzler and Ed McBain. His works have been translated into fifteen languages.
 

Awards: Barry (2006), Edgar (1997)  see all

Genres: Mystery, Historical Mystery
 
Series
Frank Clemons
   1. Sacrificial Ground (1988)
   2. Flesh and Blood (1989)
   3. Night Secrets (1990)
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Novels
   Blood Innocents (1980)
   The Orchids (1982)
   Tabernacle (1983)
   Elena (1986)
   Streets of Fire (1989)
   The City When it Rains (1991)
   Evidence of Blood (1991)
   Mortal Memory (1993)
   Breakheart Hill (1995)
   The Chatham School Affair (1996)
   Instruments of the Night (1998)
   Places in the Dark (2000)
   The Interrogation (2002)
   Taken (2002)
   Moon Over Manhattan (2003) (with Larry King)
   Peril (2004)
   Into the Web (2004)
   Red Leaves (2005)
   The Cloud of Unknowing (2006)
     aka The Murmur of Stones
   Master of the Delta (2008)
   The Fate of Katherine Carr (2009)
   The Last Talk With Lola Faye (2010)
   No Rest for the Dead (2011) (with others)
   The Quest for Anna Klein (2011)
   The Crime of Julian Wells (2012)
   Sandrine (2013)
     aka Sandrine's Case
   A Dancer in the Dust (2014)
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Collections
   Fatherhood (2014)
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Books containing stories by Thomas H Cook
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Manhattan Mayhem (2015)
(Mystery Writers of America Presents)
edited by
Mary Higgins Clark
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Death Sentences (2014)
Stories of Deathly Books, Murderous Booksellers and Lethal Literature
edited by
Otto Penzler

More books 


Awards
2006 Barry Award for Best Novel : Red Leaves
1997 Edgar Award for Best Novel : The Chatham School Affair

Award nominations
2014 Macavity Award for Best Novel (nominee) : Sandrine
2014 Edgar Award for Best Novel (nominee) : Sandrine
2014 CrimeFest: eDunnit Award (nominee) : Sandrine
2014 Barry Award for Best Novel (nominee) : Sandrine
2007 Edgar Award for Best Short Story (nominee) : Rain
2006 Edgar Award for Best Novel (nominee) : Red Leaves
2006 CWA Gold Dagger (shortlist) : Red Leaves
2006 Anthony Award for Best Novel (nominee) : Red Leaves
2005 Edgar Award for Best Paperback original (nominee) : Into the Web
2005 Barry Award for Best Paperback original (nominee) : Into the Web
2001 Barry Award for Best Novel (nominee) : Places in the Dark
1997 Macavity Award for Best Novel (nominee) : The Chatham School Affair
1997 Barry Award for Best Novel (nominee) : The Chatham School Affair
1989 Edgar Award for Best Novel (nominee) : Sacrificial Ground
1981 Edgar Award for Best Paperback original (nominee) : Blood Innocents


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All of Us (2020)
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"A.F. Carter's All of Us is a compellingly written account of several fiercely warring personalities...all of them in the same body. Taut. Unusual. Wholly absorbing. The most intriguing and deftly imagined mystery I have read in years."

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