Audiobooks by Thomas H. Cook

Blood Echoes: The Infamous Alday Mass Murder and Its Aftermath

"Edgar Award Finalist: A true-crime account of a vicious massacre and the legal battles that followed. It was not a clever killing. On May 5, 1973, three men escaped from a Maryland prison and disappeared. Joined by a fifteen-year-old brother, they surfaced in Georgia, where they were spotted joyriding in a stolen car. Within a week, the four young men were arrested on suspicion of committing one of the most horrific murders in American history. Jerry Alday and his family were eating Sunday dinner when death burst through the door of their cozy little trailer. Their six bodies are only the beginning of Thomas H. Cook's retelling of this gruesome story; the horrors continued in the courtroom. Based on court documents, police records, and interviews with the surviving family members, this is a chilling look at the evil that can lurk just around the corner."

Thomas H. Cook (Author), Kris Koscheski (Narrator)

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Early Graves: A True Story of Murder and Passion

"Shocking true crime from the Edgar Award–winning author. 'Powerful . . . A frightening close-up of sociopathic personalities at their most deadly' (Vincent Bugliosi, author of Helter Skelter). 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. Gradually their ambition grew, until one day at the Riverbend Mall in Rome, Georgia, they spotted Lisa Ann Millican. Three days after Lisa Ann disappeared, the thirteen-year-old girl was found shot and pumped full of liquid drain cleaner. In between her abduction and her death, she was subjected to innumerable horrors. And she was only the first to die. Drawing on police records and extensive interviews, Thomas H. Cook recounts the story of Judith Ann Neelley, who at nineteen became the youngest woman ever sentenced to death row."

Thomas H. Cook (Author), Kris Koscheski (Narrator)

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Book 'Em: Four Bibliomysteries by Edgar Award-Winning Authors

"The Little Men by Megan Abbott: Rumors and strange experiences lead a washed-up actress in 1950s Hollywood to question the suspicious circumstances surrounding the alleged suicide of a former occupant of her low-rent bungalow. What's in a Name? by Thomas H. Cook: Rare books dealer and amateur historian Franklin Altman has always wondered how the world might have turned out if the First World War had ended differently. On the fiftieth anniversary of the Armistice Treaty, an ancient German mysteriously appears and presents him with a personal manuscript, the contents of which, he claims, have the power to change history. The Book of the Lion by Thomas Perry: An anonymous phone call sends Professor Dominic Hallkyn on a mad dash through the streets of Boston in pursuit of a priceless Chaucerian manuscript. But the caller's demands will lead to a devilish plot twist. From the Queen by Carolyn Hart: When a priceless, first edition of Agatha Christie's Poirot Investigates, autographed and inscribed to the Queen of England, disappears from her South Carolina thrift shop, Ellen Gallagher calls on her friend Annie Darling, owner of the mystery bookstore Death on Demand, to track it down."

Carolyn Hart, Megan Abbott, Thomas H. Cook, Thomas Perry (Author), Christina Delaine, Will Damron (Narrator)

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Bibliomysteries Volume 1

"A must-listen collection of thirteen bibliomysteries by bestselling and award-winning authors Bibliomysteries Volume 1 includes: ● 'An Acceptable Sacrifice' by Jeffery Deaver ● 'The Final Testament' by Peter Blauner ● 'What's in a Name?' by Thomas H. Cook ● 'Book Club' by Loren D. Estleman ● and many others"

Andrew Taylor, Anne Perry, C.J. Box, David Bell, Jeffery Deaver, Ken Bruen, Laura Lippman, Loren D. Estleman, Max Allan Collins, Mickey Spillane, Peter Blauner, Reed Farrel Coleman, Thomas H. Cook, William Link (Author), Daniel Thomas May (Narrator)

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Mortal Memory

"Steve Farris is an unexceptional middle-aged architect with an extraordinary past: When he was 9, his father came home one evening and murdered his mother, brother, and sister before vanishing off the face of the earth. Steve has coped by shutting out the terrible memories, but when writer Rebecca Soltero arrives to interview him about his father, he is forced to reawaken the horrors of his childhood."

Thomas H. Cook (Author), Traber Burns (Narrator)

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Night Secrets: A Frank Clemons Mystery

Thomas H. Cook (Author), Ray Chase (Narrator)

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Flesh and Blood: A Frank Clemons Mystery

Thomas H. Cook (Author), Ray Chase (Narrator)

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Blood Innocents

Thomas H. Cook (Author), Jonah Cummings (Narrator)

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Sacrificial Ground: A Frank Clemons Mystery

Thomas H. Cook (Author), Michael Sutherland (Narrator)

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Fatherhood, and Other Stories

"Over his acclaimed career, Cook's novels have haunted, riveted, and spellbound readers across the world, and his short stories are equally acclaimed. They range from the intensely focused world of 'Fatherhood,' the Herodotus prize–winning title story, to the Edgar-nominated 'Rain,' a dark, kaleidoscopic tale of Manhattan on a single, rain-swept night. 'The Fix,' the story of a famous boxing fix that was, well, not a fix at all, was selected for inclusion in Best Mystery Stories of the Year. 'What She Offered,' the gripping tale of a one-night stand, was included in The Best Noir Stories of the Century. Like Cook's novels, the range of this collection is, itself, astonishing. From a backwoods Appalachian shack during the Depression ('Poor People') to a Midwestern college campus in the throes of Sixties revolt ('The Sun-Gazer') to a midtown Manhattan bookstore on Christmas Eve, 'The Lessons of the Season,' this collection demonstrates precisely that, in the words of Michael Connelly, 'no one tells a story better than Thomas H. Cook.'"

Thomas H. Cook (Author), Fred Sullivan (Narrator)

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Streets of Fire

"At the height of the Civil Rights movement, a young girl's murder stirs racial tensions in Birmingham, Alabama. 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, marching, singing, and being arrested alongside Martin Luther King, Jr. Police detective Ben Wellman is among them when he gets the call about the fresh grave. Under the loosely packed dirt, he finds a young black girl, her innocence taken and her life along with it. His sergeant orders Wellman to investigate, but instructs him not to try too hard. In the summer of 1963, Birmingham is tense enough without a manhunt for the killers of a black child. Wellman digs for the truth in spite of skepticism from the black community and scorn from his fellow officers. What he finds is a secret that men from both sides of town would prefer stayed buried."

Thomas H. Cook (Author), Ray Chase (Narrator)

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Streets of Fire

"It is May 1963, in Birmingham, Alabama. As Martin Luther King, Jr.'s civil rights demonstrations begin to fill the streets, prejudices awaken and tempers flare. Amid the violence and confusion, a deaf black girl is found raped and murdered. Veteran homicide detective Ben Wellman pursues the murderer through the throngs of protesters, the pool halls of the black district of Bearmatch, the white mansions of Mountain Brook, and finally, even in his own department. As he did in Sacrificial Ground, Cook has created a novel of uncommon force and resonance."

Thomas H. Cook (Author), George Guidall (Narrator)

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Audiobooks by Thomas H. Cook

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