Thomas H. Cook

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....

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....

George Gates is a former travel writer. He used to specialise in writing about places where people disappeared, sometimes individuals, sometimes whole societies....

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

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

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....

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....

Steve Farris is an unexceptional middle-aged architect with an extraordinary past: When he was nine, his father came home one evening and murdered his mother, brother, and sister....

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....

How did Sandrine die? There was no forced entry. She had been gradually stockpiling prescription drugs. A lethal quantity of Demerol was found in her blood....

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....

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