Thomas H. Cook Libros

El d&ía en que Sara decidi&ó huir de casa, dejar atr&ás a su marido y empezar una nueva vida, no sab&ía que estaba poniendo en marcha un mecanismo imparable de intriga y violencia. Porque, como pronto descubrir&á, nadie abandona al hijo de Leo Labriola& sin pagar las consecuencias. Seis vidas giran en torno a una mujer desesperada: un hombre con muchas deudas y poco tiempo de vida, un buscador de personas atormentado por su pasado, un mat&ón fiel hasta la muerte, un marido desencantado y d&ébil, un barman en busca de cantante y un capo mafioso violento y despiadado... Seis hombres que se juegan su futuro en el transcurso de unas horas, en el coraz&ón de la ciudad, en una siniestra partida con el destino en la que todas las cartas est&án marcadas. Thomas H.Cook recoge la esencia de la mejor novela negra en esta historia de suspense, con un ritmo creciente y unos personajes excepcionalmente retratados que se encaminan, cada uno con su bagaje de pecados, faltas y deudas, hacia un climax tan inevitable como sobrecogedor.

Riverwood es una apacible comunidad que Allison Davies, su propietaria, ha transformado en refugio para escritores y artistas. Un lugar hermoso y paradisíaco que en una ocasión fue escenario de un terrible crimen sin explicación ni castigo: el asesinato de la joven Faye Harrison, la mejor amiga de Allison. Ahora, cincuenta años más tarde, Allison quiere encontrar las respuestas a ese misterio que truncó para siempre su felicidad y la paz de Riverwood. Para ello contrata a Paul Graves, un escritor de novelas policíacas de culto cuyos personajes tenebrosos fascinan al público. Dispuesto a asumir el papel de uno de sus personajes de ficción, Paul Graves acepta la propuesta de Allison Davies y se sumerge en la investigación del caso. Graves, superviviente a su vez de una infancia marcada por la tragedia, iniciará un viaje imparable en el tiempo que le trasladará, inevitablemente, a los fantasmas de su propio pasado y que le permitirá descubrir al fin cuáles son los rincones que esconden la verdad última de un crimen.

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.

In this affecting crime novel, shortlisted for both the Edgar and the Duncan Lawrie Dagger, Eric Moore watches his safe, solid world disintegrate. When eight-year-old Amy Giordano disappears from her family's house, while Keith, Eric's teenage son, is babysitting, Keith becomes an obvious suspect, and even his parents have misgivings. As time passes without Amy being found, a corrosive suspicion seeps into every aspect of Eric's life. That suspicion is fed by Eric's shaky family history - a father whose plans failed, an alcoholic older brother, a younger sister who died aged seven and a mother driven to suicide. Not even Eric's loving wife, Meredith, is immune from his doubts as he begins to examine and re-examine every aspect of his life. The totally unexpected resolution is both shocking and perfectly apt.

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.

Sara Labriola is a married woman haunted by the shattering secrets of her past—and terrified of the future. Tired of living in fear—and knowing that if she stays in her marriage she'll be killed—Sara decides to do the only thing she she makes herself disappear.One afternoon, without telling a soul, she packs a single suitcase and leaves her life in Long Island behind. In New York City, she will reinvent herself. She will change her identity, and maybe even get the happy ending she's always dreamed of. But that dream is about to become a nightmare when her father-in-law decides to make her pay for abandoning his son.Leo Labriola runs his modest but lucrative criminal organization like he does his family—with unspeakable brutality and zero tolerance for disobedience. He's determined to teach Sara a lesson and he'll stop at nothing to do it. Now six differently desperate and dangerous men—each with the power to destroy her—are on Sara's trail. But none of them suspect that the woman they are seeking has a dangerous secret of her own. For Sara is leading all of them down a path of private demons, past sins, and the deadliest peril.

DIE TOTE VON ATLANTA Angelica Devereaux, eine junge Frau, deren magischer Anziehungskraft sich keiner entziehen konnte, wird ermordet aufgefunden. Polizeioffizier Frank Clemons pendelt zwischen den Luxusvierteln der Reichen und den Ghettos von Atlanta hin und her, um den Tod der Kindfrau und die Geheimnisse ihres Lebens aufzuklären. BLUTSPUREN In den letzten Wochen vor seinem Tod hat sich Kriminalkommissar Ray Tindall mit einem mysteriösen Mädchenmord befasst, der vor vier Jahrzehnten geschah und nie völlig aufgeklärt wurde. Aus purer Neugier beschließt sein Freund, der Sache nachzugehen. Was er herausfindet, verändert sein ganzes Leben.