Thomas H. Cook

Edgar Award finalist: a true-crime account of a vicious massacre and the legal battles that followed....

One day in 1952, the strangled body of 10-year-old Cathy Lake is discovered in a public park. A homeless suspect, Albert Jay Smalls, is arrested and held for interrogation....

Thomas Danforth has lived a fortunate life. The son of a wealthy importer, he traveled the world in his youth, and now, in his twenties, he lives in New York City and runs the family business....

Evil has a way of finding itself. How else could you explain the bond between Alvin and Judith Ann Neelley, who consecrated their marriage in blood? Before the killings started, they restricted themselves to simple mischief: prank calls, vandalism, firing guns at strangers' houses....

Samuel Madison always wondered what Sandrine saw in him, he a meek, stuffy doctorate student and she a brilliant, beautiful bohemian with limitless talent and imagination....

On a rainy night in New York City’s Hell’s Kitchen, a woman throws a doll from the fifth-floor window of a gutted tenement, then leaps herself....

Over his acclaimed career, Cook’s novels have haunted, riveted, and spellbound readers across the world, and his short stories are equally acclaimed....

When the body of famed true-crime writer Julian Wells is found in a boat drifting on a Montauk pond, the question isn't how he died, but why....

The young girl lies in a ditch without a scratch on her. To hang on to sanity, Detective Frank Clemons must do everything he can to find justice for the dead....

Frank Clemons, an ex-cop turned private detective, faces a pair of perplexing cases on the mean streets of New York City....

The grave on the football field is shallow, and easy to spot from a distance. It would have been found sooner, had most of the residents in the black half of Birmingham not been downtown....

Blood seeps into the gutters at the Children's Zoo in Central Park. Two deer have been slaughtered, one stabbed fifty-seven times and the other slashed across the neck....

When a lovely high-school girl is destroyed by a blow to her head, the savage act sends the people of a small southern town reeling....

The sleek high-rises of Park Avenue make Frank Clemons uneasy....

When Steve Farris was 9, his father came home one evening and coolly murdered his mother, brother, and sister before vanishing off the face of the earth....

Roy Slater left town 25 years ago to escape the consequences of an unspeakable crime. Now he returns, only to get caught up in another scandal....

In 1937, a slender young woman arrived in a small Maine town. Dora March was lovely, quiet, and mysterious. Soon the tragedies began: a house fire, a murder, a suicide....

David Sears grew up in the shadow of his brilliant younger sister, Diana, convinced by their father that she would accomplish great things....