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The Best American Crime Writing: 2003 Edition

Otto Penzler,Thomas H. Cook
The Best American Crime Writing 2003 Edition Book PDF

Author : Otto Penzler,Thomas H. Cook
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 511 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2010-08-04
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9780307514097

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This year’s worth of the most powerful, the most startling, the smartest and most astute, in short, the best crime journalism. Scouring hundreds of publications, Otto Penzler and Thomas H. Cook have created a remarkable compilation containing the best examples of the most current and vibrant of our literary traditions: crime reporting. Included in this volume are Maximillian Potter’s “The Body Farm” from GQ, a portrait of Murray Marks, who collects dead bodies and strews them around two acres of the University of Tennessee campus to study their decomposition in order to help solve crime; Jay Kirk’s “My Undertaker, My Pimp,” from Harper’s, in which Mack Moore and his wife, Angel, switch from run-ning crooked funeral parlors to establishing a brothel; Skip Hollandsworth’s “The Day Treva Throneberry Disappeared” from Texas Monthly, about the sudden disappearence of a teenager and the strange place she turned up; Lawrence Wright’s “The Counterterrorist” from The New Yorker, the story of John O’Neill, the FBI agent who tracked Osama bin Laden for a decade—until he was killed when the World Trade Center collapsed. Intriguing, entertaining, and compelling reading, Best American Crime Writing has established itself as a much-anticipated annual.

Best American Crime Writing 2003

Otto Penzler,Thomas H. Cook
Best American Crime Writing 2003 Book PDF

Author : Otto Penzler,Thomas H. Cook
Publisher : Pantheon
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015059981624

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Best American Crime Writing 2003 by Otto Penzler,Thomas H. Cook Pdf

A riveting new anthology series—a year’s worth of the most powerful, the most startling, the smartest and most astute, in short, the best crime journalism. Scouring hundreds of publications, guest editor Nicholas Pileggi, and series editors Otto Penzler and Thomas H. Cook have created a remarkable compilation of the best examples of the most current and vibrant of our literary traditions: crime reporting. Ranging in style from Mark Singer’s ribald “The Chicken Warriors,” an up-close look at the tawdry, wildly popular, illegal world of cock-fighting, to David McClintick’s harrowing “Fatal Bondage,” the tale of a grifter with an attraction to sado-masochistic sex and serial killing, this collection showcases the wide variety of writing in the field today. Criminal behavior itself also falls into a spectrum, from the isolated and idiosyncratic misdeed, such as that documented in Skip Hollandsworth’s “The Killing of Alydar,” an investigation into the greed that spawned the killing of a thoroughbred horse, to the large-scale malignancies that can shake an entire nation, as recounted in “The Day of the Attack,” Nancy Gibbs’s sobering retelling of the events of September 11, 2001. Good crime writing is never just about the crime or the criminals, so this collection also has moving and often troubling portraits of the victims, their families, and the communities in which they lived, and, in pieces such as D. Graham Burnett’s “Anatomy of a Verdict,” a reminder of the immensely difficult process that is coming to judgment. Entertaining, at times alarming, Best American Crime Writing is compelling evidence of the furthest reaches of human behavior.

Best American Crime Writing, 2003

Thomas H. Cook,Otto Penzler
Best American Crime Writing 2003 Book PDF

Author : Thomas H. Cook,Otto Penzler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Crime
ISBN : 0375713018

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Best American Crime Writing, 2003 by Thomas H. Cook,Otto Penzler Pdf

This second anthology of best crime journalism offers an array of insightful, intelligent essays - riveting tales of bizarre and unnerving criminality: Web-cam pornography, Enron debacle, forced prostitution in Europe, killer attack dogs, the murder of a Wall Street Journal reporter, bumbling Nazi saboteurs, rotting corpses.

The Best American Crime Reporting 2007

Linda Fairstein,Otto Penzler,Thomas H. Cook
The Best American Crime Reporting 2007 Book PDF

Author : Linda Fairstein,Otto Penzler,Thomas H. Cook
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9780061844935

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The Best American Crime Reporting 2007 by Linda Fairstein,Otto Penzler,Thomas H. Cook Pdf

Thieves, liars, killers, and conspirators—it's a criminal world out there, and someone has got to write about it. An eclectic collection of the year's best reportage, The Best American Crime Reporting 2007 brings together the murderers and muscle men, the masterminds, and the mysteries and missteps that make for brilliant stories, told by the aces of the true crime genre. This latest addition to the highly acclaimed series features guest editor Linda Fairstein, the bestselling crime novelist and former chief prosecutor of the Manhattan District Attorney's Office's pioneering Special Victims' Unit.

The Best American Crime Writing 2005

James Ellroy
The Best American Crime Writing 2005 Book PDF

Author : James Ellroy
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2009-03-17
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9780061842603

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“One of the strengths of this true-crime anthology series comes simply from its astonishing variety . . . it would be tough to better this collection.” —Booklist The 2005 edition of The Best American Crime Writing offers the year’s most shocking, compelling, and gripping writing about real-life crime, including Peter Landesman’s article about female sex slaves (the most requested and widely read New York Times story of 2004), a piece from The New Yorker by Stephen J. Dubner (the coauthor of Freakanomics) about a high-society silver thief, and an extraordinarily memorable “ode to bar fights” written by Jonathan Miles for Men’s Journal after he punched an editor at a staff party. But this year’s edition includes a bonus—an original essay by James Ellroy detailing his fascination with Joseph Wambaugh and how it fed his obsession with crime—even to the point of selling his own blood to buy Wambaugh’s books. Smart, entertaining, and controversial, The Best American Crime Writing is an essential edition to any crime enthusiast’s bookshelf. “Great choices [and] great writing . . . proves truth is indeed stranger than fiction.” —Bloomberg News “Because these well-written articles vary widely, this work should appeal to all true-crime enthusiasts.” —Library Journal “A solid and diverse collection of true-crime writing . . . Anyone interested in true crime should find something to enjoy in this wide-ranging collection.” —Publishers Weekly

The Best American Crime Writing 2005

James Ellroy,Otto Penzler,Thomas H. Cook
The Best American Crime Writing 2005 Book PDF

Author : James Ellroy,Otto Penzler,Thomas H. Cook
Publisher : Harper Perennial
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2005-09-06
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 0060815515

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The Best American Crime Writing 2005 by James Ellroy,Otto Penzler,Thomas H. Cook Pdf

The 2005 edition of The Best American Crime Writing offers the year's most shocking, compelling, and gripping writing about real-life crime, including Peter Landesman's article about female sex slaves (the most requested and widely read New York Times story of 2004), a piece from The New Yorker by Stephen J. Dubner (the coauthor of Freakanomics) about a high-society silver thief, and an extraordinarily memorable "ode to bar fights" written by Jonathan Miles for Men's Journal after he punched an editor at a staff party. But this year's edition includes a bonus -- an original essay by James Ellroy detailing his fascination with Joseph Wambaugh and how it fed his obsession with crime -- even to the point of selling his own blood to buy Wambaugh's books. Smart, entertaining, and controversial, The Best American Crime Writing is an essential edition to any crime enthusiast's bookshelf.

Red Leaves

Thomas H. Cook
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Author : Thomas H. Cook
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0156032341

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When his teenage son, Keith, is accused in the disappearance of an eight-year-old girl, Eric Moore struggles to shelter Keith from the police investigation while seeking legal counsel and wondering about his son's possible guilt.

The Crime of Julian Wells

Thomas H. Cook
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Author : Thomas H. Cook
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780802194589

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The Crime of Julian Wells by Thomas H. Cook Pdf

From the Edgar Award–winning author of Red Leaves: An “intelligent and elegant” thriller in the grand tradition of Eric Ambler and Graham Greene (The Wall Street Journal). When the body of famed true-crime writer Julian Wells is found in a boat drifting on a Montauk pond, the question is not how he died, but why? Philip Anders, Wells’s best friend and literary executor, vows to find out what drove the enigmatic author to take his own life. The first clue is a map of Argentina that Wells had been examining on the day he died. Years ago, he and Anders made a fateful trip to Buenos Aires, where their tour guide was a woman named Marisol. Her subsequent disappearance during Argentina’s Dirty War haunted the author. Had he discovered some new clue to her fate? Was he planning to return to South America? And what, if anything, does Marisol’s disappearance have to do with the curious dedication in Wells’s first book: “For Philip, sole witness to my crime”? Anders soon finds himself on a journey into his friend’s haunted, secret life. Spanning four decades and traversing three continents, The Crime of Julian Wells is a “spellbinding” tour-de-force from one of America’s most acclaimed suspense novelists (Publishers Weekly). “[A] striking example of a suspense writer working at the top of his form, and an agreeable diversion for those who enjoy a bit of style with their substance . . . Cook’s characterizations are richly balanced and finely nuanced.” —Los Angeles Times

A Dancer in the Dust

Thomas H. Cook
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Author : Thomas H. Cook
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780802192684

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A Dancer in the Dust by Thomas H. Cook Pdf

This “beautifully written and elegantly plotted” thriller from the Edgar Award–winning author of The Chatham School Affair is “one of his best ever” (The Globe and Mail, Toronto). Twenty years ago, Ray Campbell was a well-intentioned aid worker dedicated to improving conditions in Lubanda, a newly independent African country. Now a cautious risk-management consultant, he is forced to reconsider that year of living dangerously when an old friend is found murdered in a New York alley. Signs suggest that this recent tragedy is rooted in a more distant one—that of Martine Aubert, the only woman Ray ever loved, whose fate he’d sealed with a grievous mistake: “In Rupala, twenty years before, I had rolled the dice for a woman who was not even present at the table, and how on the outcome of that toss, a braver and more knowing heart than mine had been forfeited.” Martine Aubert was a white, native Lubandan farmer whose dream for her homeland put her in conflict with fearsome men intent on its so-called development. As Ray returns to Lubanda to investigate the cause of his friend’s murder, he also revisits the passion he’d once felt for Martine and vows, in her memory, to rectify his wrongs. A Dancer in the Dust is a gripping story of ill-fated love: one man’s love for an extraordinary woman, and one woman’s love for her troubled country. “Not since John Le Carré’s The Mission Song have I seen such a loving and sorrowful portrait of modern Africa.” —The News & Observer (Raleigh)

The Quest for Anna Klein

Thomas H. Cook
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Author : Thomas H. Cook
Publisher : HMH
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2011-06-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780547549224

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The Quest for Anna Klein by Thomas H. Cook Pdf

On the eve of WWII, an international plot leads to a deadly obsession: “Nobody tells a story better than Thomas H. Cook” (Michael Connelly, New York Times–bestselling author of Two Kinds of Truth). It’s 1939 and the world is on the brink of war, but Thomas Danforth is in New York City living a fortunate life. The well-traveled son of a wealthy importer, he’s in his twenties and running the family business, looking forward to a bright future. Then, during a snowy evening walk along Gramercy Park, a friend makes a fateful request—and involves Thomas in a dangerous idea that could change the fates of millions. Thomas is to provide access to his secluded Connecticut mansion, where a mysterious woman will receive training in firearms and explosives. Thus begins an international plot carried out by the strange and alluring Anna Klein—a plot that will ensnare Thomas in more ways than one. When it all goes wrong and Anna disappears, he will travel far from home once again, but this time, into a war-torn world that is far more dangerous, in this story by an Edgar Award–winning author known for his “piercing thrillers” (New York Daily News). “No other suspense writer takes readers as deeply into the heart of darkness as Thomas H. Cook.” —Chicago Tribune

The Best American Crime Reporting 2008

Jonathan Kellerman,Otto Penzler,Thomas H. Cook
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Author : Jonathan Kellerman,Otto Penzler,Thomas H. Cook
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2008-08-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780061982507

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The Best American Crime Reporting 2008 by Jonathan Kellerman,Otto Penzler,Thomas H. Cook Pdf

Thieves, liars, killers, and conspirators—it's a criminal world out there, and someone has got to write about it. An eclectic collection of the year's best reportage, The Best American Crime Reporting 2008 brings together the murderers and the master­minds, the mysteries and missteps that make for brilliant stories, told by the aces of the true-crime genre. This latest addition to the highly acclaimed series features guest editor Jonathan Kellerman, bestselling author of more than twenty crime novels, most recently Compulsion and the forthcoming Bones.

The Last Talk with Lola Faye

Thomas H. Cook
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Author : Thomas H. Cook
Publisher : HMH
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2010-08-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780547541273

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The Last Talk with Lola Faye by Thomas H. Cook Pdf

A “marvelously tense” novel of psychological suspense centered on a long-ago crime of passion, from an Edgar Award–winning author (Publishers Weekly, starred review). With dreams of academic greatness, Lucas Paige rose from humble and sordid beginnings to attend Harvard. But his achievements since then have been meager. In St. Louis to give yet another sparsely attended reading, he discovers a face from the past he’s tried to forget: Lola Faye Gilroy, the “other woman” he long blamed for his father’s murder. Reluctantly, Luke joins Lola Faye for a drink. As one drink turns into several, these two battered souls relive, from their different perspectives, the most searing experience of their lives. They are transported back to the tiny southern town of Glenville, Alabama, where a violent crime of passion is turned in the light once more. As it turns out, there is much Luke doesn’t know. And what he doesn’t know can hurt him. Trapped in an increasingly intense exchange, Luke struggles to gain control and determine what Lola Faye is truly after—before it is too late. This “darkly powerful” (Kirkus Reviews) literary thriller, rich with Southern atmosphere, is “a knockout” (People). “Cook continues his work as one of the best fiction writers in America.” —The Plain Dealer

The Fate of Katherine Carr

Thomas H. Cook
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Author : Thomas H. Cook
Publisher : HMH
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2009-06-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780547488639

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The Fate of Katherine Carr by Thomas H. Cook Pdf

An “eerily poignant novel” about a grieving father and a cold-case mystery, from an Edgar Award winner (PublishersWeekly, starred review). George Gates used to be a travel writer who specialized in places where people disappeared—Judge Crater, the Lost Colony. Then his eight-year-old son was murdered, the killer never found, and Gates gave up disappearance. Now he writes stories of redemptive triviality about flower festivals and local celebrities for the town paper, and spends his evenings haunted by the image of his son’s last day. Enter Arlo McBride, a retired missing-persons detective still obsessed with the unsolved case of Katherine Carr. When he gives Gates the story she left behind—a story of a man stalking a woman named Katherine Carr—Gates too is drawn inexorably into a search for the missing author’s brief life and uncertain fate. And as he goes deeper, he begins to suspect that her tale holds the key not only to her fate, but to his own. “Every Thomas H. Cook novel is a subtle mind game, but The Fate of Katherine Carr is positively haunting.” —The New York Times Book Review “Disturbing, psychologically complex . . . At each level, the novel ponders questions of good and evil, of guilt and retribution, and the power of storytelling itself.” —Associated Press

Selections from The Best American Crime Reporting 2010

Otto Penzler,Thomas H. Cook
Selections from The Best American Crime Reporting 2010 Book PDF

Author : Otto Penzler,Thomas H. Cook
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2011-07-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780062008770

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Selections from The Best American Crime Reporting 2010 by Otto Penzler,Thomas H. Cook Pdf

The Best American Crime Reporting 2010 is yet another must read for the true crime aficionado—an eye-opening compendium of the most gripping, suspenseful, and brilliant crime stories of the year by the masters of the genre. Guest editor Stephen J. Dubner (Freakonomics) joins series editors Otto Penzler and Thomas Cook for the latest annual installment in what Entertainment Weekly has praised as the best mix of “the political, the macabre, and the downright brilliant,” and People Magazine calls, “arresting reading.”

Master of the Delta

Thomas H. Cook
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Author : Thomas H. Cook
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780156033206

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Master of the Delta by Thomas H. Cook Pdf

Jack Branch, the last son of an aristocratic Old South family, has returned to his hometown, taking on the job of teacher at the local high school. When he sets his students a paper entitled 'The Most Evil Person', he expects essays on historical tyrants and literary villains. He doesn't expect Eddie Miller's choice - his own father. Throughout his life, Eddie has been known as 'The Coed Killer's Son', because when Eddie was eight years old, his father killed a local college student, dismembered her body, and buried the pieces in a local forest. Eddie's investigation of his own father's dark secrets steadily widens until, ultimately, it encompasses the whole town.