About the Author
THOMAS H. COOK is the author of eighteen novels, including The Chatham School Affair, winner of the Edgar Award for Best Novel; Instruments of Night; Breakheart Hill; Mortal Memory; Sacrificial Ground and Blood Innocents, both Edgar Award nominees; and Moon over Manhattan, which he co-authored with Larry King. He has also written two works about true crimes, Early Graves and Blood Echoes, which was also nominated for an Edgar Award. He wrote the novelization of the SCI FI Channel television event, Taken, and has co-edited, with Otto Penzler, two anthologies of American crime writing.
He lives in New York City and Cape Cod.