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
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 Murmur of Stones (2006)
aka The Cloud of Unknowing
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 Jeff Abbott, Lori Armstrong, David Baldacci, Sandra Brown, Jeffery Deaver, Diana Gabaldon, Tess Gerritsen, Andrew F Gulli, Lamia Gulli, Peter James, J A Jance, Faye Kellerman, Raymond Khoury, John Lescroart, Jeff Lindsay, Gayle Lynds, Alexander McCall Smith, Phillip Margolin, Michael Palmer, T Jefferson Parker, Matthew Pearl, Kathy Reichs, Marcus Sakey, Jonathan Santlofer, Lisa Scottoline, R L Stine and Marcia Talley)
The Quest for Anna Klein (2011)
The Crime of Julian Wells (2012)
Sandrine (2013)
aka Sandrine's Case
A Dancer in the Dust (2014)
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 Murmur of Stones (2006)
aka The Cloud of Unknowing
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 Jeff Abbott, Lori Armstrong, David Baldacci, Sandra Brown, Jeffery Deaver, Diana Gabaldon, Tess Gerritsen, Andrew F Gulli, Lamia Gulli, Peter James, J A Jance, Faye Kellerman, Raymond Khoury, John Lescroart, Jeff Lindsay, Gayle Lynds, Alexander McCall Smith, Phillip Margolin, Michael Palmer, T Jefferson Parker, Matthew Pearl, Kathy Reichs, Marcus Sakey, Jonathan Santlofer, Lisa Scottoline, R L Stine and Marcia Talley)
The Quest for Anna Klein (2011)
The Crime of Julian Wells (2012)
Sandrine (2013)
aka Sandrine's Case
A Dancer in the Dust (2014)
Omnibus
Five Great Thrillers (2005) (with Robert Crais, Robert Ludlum, George Pelecanos and Ian Rankin)
A Thomas H. Cook Omnibus (2008)
A Thomas H. Cook Omnibus (2008)
Collections
Series contributed to
Bibliomysteries
13. What's in a Name? (2014)
Book 'Em (omnibus) (2018) (with Megan Abbott, Carolyn Hart and Thomas Perry)
13. What's in a Name? (2014)
Book 'Em (omnibus) (2018) (with Megan Abbott, Carolyn Hart and Thomas Perry)
Anthologies edited
The Best American Crime Writing (2002) (with Otto Penzler)
The Best American Crime Writing 2003 (2003) (with Otto Penzler)
The Best American Crime Writing 2004 (2004) (with Otto Penzler)
The Best American Crime Writing 2003 (2003) (with Otto Penzler)
The Best American Crime Writing 2004 (2004) (with Otto Penzler)
Non fiction
Early Graves (1990)
Blood Echoes (1992)
The Best American Crime Reporting 2008 (2008) (with Jonathan Kellerman and Otto Penzler)
The Best American Crime Reporting 2009 (2009) (with Otto Penzler and Jeffrey Toobin)
The Best American Crime Reporting 2010 (2010) (with Stephen J Dubner and Otto Penzler)
Tragic Shores (2018)
Blood Echoes / Early Graves (2018)
Even Darkness Sings (2018)
Blood Echoes (1992)
The Best American Crime Reporting 2008 (2008) (with Jonathan Kellerman and Otto Penzler)
The Best American Crime Reporting 2009 (2009) (with Otto Penzler and Jeffrey Toobin)
The Best American Crime Reporting 2010 (2010) (with Stephen J Dubner and Otto Penzler)
Tragic Shores (2018)
Blood Echoes / Early Graves (2018)
Even Darkness Sings (2018)
Awards
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Thomas H Cook recommends

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."
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