# 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.

## Biography

Thomas H. Cook was born in Fort Payne, Alabama, and holds a bachelor's degree from Georgia State College, a master's degree in American history from Hunter College, and a Master of Philosophy degree from Columbia University.
From 1978 to 1981, Cook taught English and History at Dekalb Community College in Georgia, and served as 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. It was published in 1980, and he has published steadily since then. A film version of one of his books, Evidence of Blood, was released in 1997.
Six of his novels have been nominated for awards, including Red Leaves in 2006, which was also shortlisted for the Crime Writers' Association's Duncan Lawrie Dagger and the Anthony Award, and went on to win the Barry Award and the Martin Beck Award.
Cook lives with his family in Cape Cod and New York City and Los Angeles.

## Awards and honors

Awards for Cook's writing :
| Year | Title | Award | Result |
| 1981 | Blood Innocents | Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Paperback Original | Finalist |
| 1989 | Sacrificial Ground | Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Novel | Finalist |
| 1995 | Breakheart Hill | Hammett Prize | Finalist |
| 1997 | The Chatham School Affair | Barry Award for Best Novel | Finalist |
| 1997 | The Chatham School Affair | Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Novel | Winner |
| 1997 | The Chatham School Affair | Macavity Award for Best Novel | Finalist |
| 2001 | Places in the Dark | Barry Award for Best Novel | Finalist |
| 2005 | Into the Web | Barry Award for Best Paperback Original | Finalist |
| 2005 | Into the Web | Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Paperback Original | Finalist |
| 2006 | Red Leaves | Anthony Award for Best Novel | Finalist |
| 2006 | Red Leaves | Barry Award for Best Novel | Winner |
| 2006 | Red Leaves | Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Novel | Finalist |
| 2006 | Red Leaves | Gold Dagger | Finalist |
| 2014 | Sandrine’s Case | Barry Award for Best Novel | Finalist |
| 2014 | Sandrine’s Case | Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Novel | Finalist |
| 2014 | Sandrine’s Case | Macavity Award for Best Mystery Novel | Finalist |

## Publications

* Blood Innocents (Playboy, 1980)
* The Orchids (Houghton Mifflin, 1982). ISBN 039532503X
* Tabernacle (Houghton Mifflin, 1983). ISBN 0395343968
* Elena (Houghton Mifflin, 1986). ISBN 0395356326
* Sacrificial Ground (Putnam, 1988). ISBN 0399133399
* Flesh and Blood (Putnam, 1989). ISBN 0399134093
* Streets of Fire (Putnam, 1989). ISBN 0399134905
* Early Graves (Dutton, 1990). ISBN 0525249184
* Night Secrets (Putnam, 1990). ISBN 0399135278
* The City When It Rains (Putnam, 1991). ISBN 0399135553
* Evidence of Blood (Putnam, 1991). ISBN 0399136681
* Blood Echoes (Dutton, 1992). ISBN 0525933999
* Mortal Memory (Putnam, 1993). ISBN 0399138293
* Breakheart Hill (Bantam, 1995). ISBN 0553096516
* The Chatham School Affair (Bantam, 1996). ISBN 0553096524
* Instruments of Night (Bantam, 1998). ISBN 055310554X
* Places in the Dark (Bantam, 2000). ISBN 0553105639
* The Interrogation (Bantam, 2002). ISBN 0553800957
* Taken: A Novelization (Dell, 2002). ISBN 044024126X
* Moon Over Manhattan, with Larry King, (New Millennium Press, 2003). ISBN 1893224570
* Peril (Bantam, 2004). ISBN 0553800981
* Into the Web (Bantam, 2004). ISBN 0553580922
* Red Leaves (Harcourt, 2005). ISBN 0151012504
* The Murmur of Stones (Quercus, 2006) (published in the US as The Cloud of Unknowing, Harcourt, 2007). ISBN 978-0151012602
* Master of the Delta (Harcourt, 2008). ISBN 978-0151012541
* The Best American Crime Reporting 2008, (with Jonathan Kellerman and Otto Penzler), (Harper Perennial, 2008). ISBN 978-0061490835
* The Fate of Katherine Carr (2009). ISBN 978-0151014019
* The Last Talk with Lola Faye (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010). ISBN 978-0151014071
* The Quest for Anna Klein (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011). ISBN 978-0547364643
* The Crime of Julian Wells (Mysterious Press, 2012). ISBN 978-0802126030
* Sandrine's Case (Mysterious Press, 2013). ISBN 978-0802126085
* Fatherhood and Other Stories (Pegasus Press, 2013). ISBN 1605984671
* A Dancer in the Dust (Grove/Atlantic/Mysterious, 2015), ISBN 978-0-8021-2272-8
* Even Darkness Sings (Pegasus Press, 2018). ISBN 1681778475