Breakheart Hill - Softcover

Cook, Thomas H.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0553571923 ISBN 13: 9780553571929

Publisher: Crimeline, 1996

Synopsis

From the author hailed as "an important talent, a storytelling writer of poetic narrative power" (Los Angeles Times Book Review) comes a dazzling novel of psychological suspense.  "This is the darkest story I've ever heard." With these haunting words, Thomas H. Cook begins a tale of love and its aftermath, of a town sent reeling from a moment of passionate betrayal. At its center was Kelli Troy and the town of Choctaw, Alabama. And on one hazy summer afternoon decades ago, a searing burst of violence engulfed Breakheart Hill. For one man who knows the truth about those shattering events, it is a memory that would become his awful secret.

About this title

From the Publisher:

"This is the darkest story I've ever heard." So begins Thomas H. Cook's haunting tale of love and its aftermath, of the price a whole town paid for a single moment of passionate betrayal. The town was Choctaw, Alabama. The place was Breakheart Hill. The girl was Kelli Troy. The violence that rocked Breakheart Hill on that summer afternoon did not end on its wooded slope. At least not for Ben Wade, now the town's doctor, one of its most revered citizens, and the only man who knows what really happened that August afternoon in 1962.... Copyright 1995 by Thomas H. Cook.

About the Author:

Thomas H. Cook is the author of many 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 two early works about true crimes, Early Graves and Blood Echoes, which was also nominated for an Edgar Award. He lives in New York City and Cape Cod.

About this edition

• Publisher: Crimeline
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0553571923
• ISBN 13: 9780553571929
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320