Thomas H. Cook Livres

Eric Moore a toutes les raisons apparentes d'être heureux : propriétaire prospère d'un magasin de photos et d'une jolie maison dans une petite ville sans problème de la côte Est, il mène une vie de famille épanouie auprès de sa femme Meredith et de son fils Keith, un adolescent de quinze ans. Cet équilibre parfait va pourtant voler en éclats à jamais… Un soir comme les autres, ses voisins demandent à Keith de garder Amy, leur fille de huit ans. Au petit matin, Amy est introuvable. Très vite, l'attention de la police se porte sur Keith et ce dernier, pataud et mal dans sa peau, se défend maladroitement. Du jour au lendemain, Eric devient l'un de ces parents qu'il a vus, à la télévision, proclamer leur foi dans l'innocence de leur enfant. Alors que l'enquête de la police se recentre autour de Keith, Eric doit lui trouver un avocat et le protéger contre les soupçons croissants de la communauté. Mais est-il tout à fait sûr de l'innocence de son fils? Si Keith était coupable, et s'il était prêt à répéter son geste... Quelle devrait être alors la responsabilité d'un père? Les feuilles mortes est le récit d'une confiance brisée et celui des efforts héroïques d'un homme pour retenir coûte que coûte les liens qui l'unissent à tous ceux qu'il aime.

In this tight, suspenseful tale of a race against the clock to get a confession out of the chief suspect in the death of young Cathy Lake, every cop has his own private burden, his own reason for wanting to crack Albert Jay Smalls wide open and confirm him as the killer. Jack Pierce has the memory of his own murdered daughter and the promise he made to Cathy's mother. Norman Cohen has the vision of the terrible things he saw at the liberation of a concentration camp, the certain knowledge of the presence of evil in the world. Thomas Burke, the chief of police, has a dying son who's been dead to him for a long time. Cook weaves the tragedies of all their lives almost seamlessly into the last 12 hours of their interrogation of the suspect; when it's over, if there's no confession, they must let Smalls go. This suspenseful thriller showcases Cook's skill at interpreting the psychological complexities of his well-drawn characters and his ability to turn an otherwise ordinary police procedural into a tense, haunting, and resonant novel. --Jane Adams

Trois personnes ont été témoins de la présence d'extraterrestres sur Terre. Pendant soixante années, le gouvernement cherche à dissimuler la vérité mais ces trois personnes ne peuvent oublier ce qu'elles ont vu.

A haunting tale.. [that] defies expectations... [with] an ending that is both surprising and devastating".-- "Chicago Tribune" "Harrowing... Terror builds and the ending to this chilling study... is a dizzying jolt".-- "Publisher's Weekly" Along with Jamie and my mother, Laura died at approximately four in the afternoon. It was almost two hours later that Mrs. Hamilton, a neighbor from across the street, saw my father drive away. During those long two hours in which he remained in the house, my father washed my mother's body and arranged her neatly on the bed. After that, he made a ham sandwich and ate it at the table in the kitchen. He drank a cup of coffee, leaving both the plate and the cup in the sink. He didn't pack anything, because he left with nothing. He didn't reenter either Laura's of Jamie's room. He made no attempt to clean up the frightful mess that had been made of them. And yet, for no apparent reason, he remained in the house for a full two hours. What had he been waiting for? "Haunting... Don't pick this up unless you've got time to read it through... because you will do so whether you plan to or not".-- "Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine

They call Eddie Miller 'The Coed Killer's Son' because when Eddie was five years old, his father killed a college girl, dismembered her body, and buried the pieces in woods. Where Eddie's family name has brought only infamy, Jack's has bestowed respect. To exorcise the burden, his teacher Jack encourages Eddie to confront past and discover truth about his father.

A tale of constipation and greed in an a small Texas town during the summer when a traveller return.

Each year, for the past seventeen years, Mysterious Bookshop proprietor Otto Penzler has commissioned an original Christmas story by a leading suspense writer. These stories were then produced as pamphlets, just 1,000 copies, and given to customers of the bookstore as a Christmas present. Now, all seventeen tales have been collected in one volume, showcasing the talents of: Charles Ardai Lisa Atkinson George Baxt Lawrence Block Mary Higgins Clark Thomas H. Cook Ron Goulart Jeremiah Healy Edward D. Hoch Rupert Holmes Andrew Klavan Michael Malone Ed McBain Anne Perry S. J. Rozan Jonathan Santlofer Donald E. WestlakeSome of these stories are humorous, others suspenseful, and still others are tales of pure detection, but all of them together make up a charming collection and a perfect Christmas gift for all ages.

Attorney Henry Griswald has a secret: the truth behind the tragic events the world knew as the Chatham School Affair, the controversial tragedy that destroyed five lives, shattered a quiet community, and forever scarred the young boy. Layer by layer, in The Chatham School Affair, Cook paints a stunning portrait of a woman, a school, and a town in which passionate violence seems impossible...and inevitable. "Thomas Cook's night visions, seen through a lens darkly, are haunting," raved the New York Times Book Review, and The Chatham School Affair will cement this superb writer's position as one of crime fiction's most prodigious talents, a master of the unexpected ending.

Thomas Cook is one of today's most acclaimed writers of psychological thrillers, penning hypnotic tales of forbidden love and devastating secrets. Now he has written an unforgettable novel that weaves one man's tortured life with a deadly mystery that spans five decades....Riverwood is an artists' community in the Hudson River valley, a serene place where writers can perfect their craft. But for all its beauty and isolation, it was once touched by a terrible crime--the murder of a teenage girl who lived on the estate fifty years ago. Faye Harrison's killer was never caught--and now her dying mother is desperate to learn the truth about her daughter's murder.Enter Paul Graves, a writer who draws upon the pain of his own tragic past to write haunting tales of mystery. Graves has been summoned to Riverwood for an unusual to apply the art of fiction to a crime that was real, and then write a story that will answer the questions that keep Faye's mother from a peaceful death. Just a story. It doesn't have to be true. Or does it?