PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Thomas H Cook was born in Fort Payne, Alabama. He has been a college English teacher and a book review editor, but is best known as a hugely popular crime writer. He is the winner of the Edgar Award for The Chatham School Affair and has been shortlisted for the CWA Duncan Lawrie Dagger and the Anthony Award. He lives in Cape Cod and New York City. Tragic Shores is his first non-fiction book.
Cook can achieve a palpable, vivid sense of place, often in a few sentences, sometimes in a few words, while smoothly integrating the factual background data into his narrative * Bookbag * Cook writes with a tender precision . . . a stunning and revelatory book that will haunt you for months to come * Catholic Herald * Cook writes movingly, perceptively, fulfilling his assertion that there is much to be gained where much has been lost * Irish Times * A fascinating, troubling memoir from a fine writer -- Mick Herron * Geographical Magazine *
