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. [MSN Encarta Enclopedia: The Chatham School Affair.]

Thomas H. Cook was born in Fort Payne, Alabama, and holds a bachelors degree from Georgia State College, and a masters degree in American history from Hunter College in 1972 [This Goodly Land http://www.alabamaliterarymap.org/author.cfm?AuthorID=113] , and in 1976 earned a MPhil degree from Columbia University.

From 1978 to 1981, Cook taught English and History at Dekalb (GA) Community College, and served as a 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. [This Goodly Land http://www.alabamaliterarymap.org/author.cfm?AuthorID=113] It was published in 1980, and he has published steadily since then. A movie version of one of his books, "Evidence of Blood", was released in 1997. [Rotten Tomatoes http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/evidence_of_blood/] Cook lives with his family in Cape Cod and New York City.

Six of his novels have been nominated for awards, including "Red Leaves" in 2006, which was also shortlisted for the CWA Duncan Lawrie Dagger and the Anthony Award, and went on to win the Barry Award and The Martin Beck Award.

Bibliography

*"Blood Innocents" (Playboy, 1980)
*"The Orchids" (Houghton Mifflin, 1982)
*"Tabernacle" (Houghton Mifflin, 1983)
*"Elena" (Houghton Mifflin, 1986)
*"Sacrificial Ground" (Putnam, 1988)
*"Flesh and Blood" (Putnam, 1989)
*"Streets of Fire" (Putnam, 1989)
*"Night Secrets" (Putnam, 1990)
*"The City When It Rains" (Putnam, 1991)
*"Evidence of Blood" (Putnam, 1991)
*"Mortal Memory" (Putnam, 1993)
*"Breakheart Hill" (Bantam, 1995)
*"The Chatham School Affair" (Bantam, 1996)
*"Instruments of Night" (Bantam, 1998)
*"Places in the Dark" (Bantam, 2000)
*"Interrogation" (Bantam, 2002)
*"Taken" (Dell, 2002)
*"Moon Over Manhattan" (New Millennium Press, 2002), with Larry King
*"Peril" (Bantam, 2004)
*"Into the Web" (Bantam, 2004)
*"Red Leaves" (Harcourt, 2005)
*"The Murmur of Stones" (Quercus, 2006) (published in the US as "The Cloud of Unknowing")
*"Master of the Delta" (Harcourt, 2008)
*"The Best American Crime Reporting 2008" (Harper Perennial, 2008) (with Jonathan Kellerman and Otto Penzler)

References