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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.
 

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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Series contributed to
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Non fiction show
 
Omnibus editions show
 
Thomas H Cook recommends
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All of Us (2020)
A F Carter
"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."

Anthologies 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

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Awards
Edgar Awards Best Novel nominee (1989) : Sacrificial Ground
Edgar Awards Best Novel winner (1997) : The Chatham School Affair
Anthony Awards Best Novel nominee (2006) : Red Leaves
Dagger Awards Best Novel nominee (2006) : Red Leaves
Edgar Awards Best Novel nominee (2006) : Red Leaves
Barry Awards Best Novel nominee (2014) : Sandrine


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