num_pages: 272
description: “No other suspense writer takes readers as deeply into the heart of darkness as Thomas H. Cook.”— Chicago TribuneI know you were there. . . .Roy Slater left Kingdom County forever after the shocking double homicide that rocked his hometown. But the .38-caliber echoes he left behind still haunt the hardscrabble West Virginia community. Now, twenty-five years later, he’s come back to spend one last summer caring for his dying father.I know what you did. . . Only Roy knows what really happened that snowy night two decades ago when the world suddenly shattered—only Roy and old Sheriff Wallace Porterfield. And now, maybe, Porterfield’s son, the new sheriff, knows too.You’ll never get away from it. . . .And when a body is found in the woods and his first, last, and only love, Lila, is connected to the corpse, it’s Roy who’s sworn in by the sheriff to discover the truth. But what Roy uncovers is that he never escaped the past, that it’s been waiting for his return, that it’s ready, this time, to kill him. . . .Praise for Into the Web“Thomas Cook is an artist, a philosopher, and a magician; his story is spellbinding.” — The Drood Review of Mystery“Hypnotic prose and fresh scenarios set Cook’s suspenseful ficiton apart. . . . If you have not yet been haunted by a Thomas Cook novel, now is a fine time to start.” — Minneapolis Star Tribune
language: English
title: Into the Web: A Novel
titlecomplete: Into the Web: A Novel
genres: Mystery, Suspense, Thriller, Fiction, Mystery Thriller
ratings_count: 320
awards: awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Barry Award
category: Best Paperback Original, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Edgar Award
category: Best Paperback Original
publisher: Bantam