The verdict hardly mattered. I knew what I’d done, and how I’d done it.
And by what means I had tried to get away with it.
From the outside, the marriage of Sandrine and Samuel Madison was both untroubled and enviable: jobs at the same liberal arts college, a precocious young daughter, and a home filled with art and literature.
But when Sandrine is found dead in their bedroom, the coroner reports an overdose of pain medication and alcohol, and Samuel finds himself on trial for her murder.
From Edgar Award-winning author Thomas H. Cook, Sandrine is a powerful novel about the evil that can lurk within the heart of a seemingly ordinary man, and whether love can be reawakened, even after death.
Sandrine is available here.
A famous writer is dead. Suicide? Punishment? Or Justice?
Julian Wells was a writer of dark non-fiction works that detailed some of the worst crimes of the 20th Century. Was it this exploration of man’s inhumanity to man that caused him to take his own life?
When his body is found in a boat drifting in a pond in Montauk, New York, his best friend, the literary critic Philip Anders, begins to reread his work in order to prepare a eulogy. This rereading, along with other clues, convinces the critic that his friend has committed a terrible crime, and that it was as punishment for this crime that Wells took his own life.
Anders’ investigation sparks an obsession with unravelling the mystery of the man he thought he knew. His journey towards understanding leads him from Paris to Budapest, spans four decades, and takes him deeper and deeper in to the heart of darkness that was Julian Wells...
The Crime of Julian Wells is available here.
OTHER FICTION
Blood Innocents
The Orchids
Tabernacle
Elena
Sacrificial Ground
Flesh and Blood
Streets of Fire
Night Secrets
The City When It Rains
Evidence of Blood
Mortal Memory
Breakheart Hill
The Chatham School Affair
Instruments of Night
Places in the Dark
The Interrogation
Taken
(based on the teleplay by Leslie Boehm)
Moon over Manhattan
(with Larry King)
Peril
Into the Web
Red Leaves
The Cloud of Unknowing
Master of the Delta
The Fate of Katherine Carr
The Last Talk with Lola Faye
The Quest for Anna Klein
The Crime of Julian Wells
NON-FICTION
Early Graves
Blood Echoes
A Father’s Story
(as told by Lionel Dahmer)
Best American Crime Writing
2000, 2001 (ed. with Otto Penzler)
Best American Crime Writing
2002 (ed. with Otto Penzler)
Best American Crime Writing
2003 (ed. with Otto Penzler)
Best American Crime Writing
2004 (ed. with Otto Penzler)
Best American Crime Writing
2005 (ed. with Otto Penzler)
Best American Crime Writing
2006 (ed. with Otto Penzler)
Best American Crime Reporting
2007 (ed. with Otto Penzler)
Best American Crime Reporting
2008 (ed. with Otto Penzler)
Best American Crime Reporting
2009 (ed. with Otto Penzler)
Best American Crime Reporting
2010 (ed. with Otto Penzler)