The Chatham School Affair - Softcover

Cook, Thomas H.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0575402865 ISBN 13: 9780575402867

Publisher: Orion mass market Paperback, 2000

Synopsis

Summer, 1926. A young woman alights from a bus in a Cape Cod village and embarks on an odyssey she cannot foretell. The new art teacher at Chatham School, Elizabeth Channing, has come from an exotic and liberated world, a world so different to this small town. She moves into a cottage beside Black Pond, and from that moment, the ripples she causes move outwards with an increasing ferocity until they create a terrifying storm of lust, anger and, ultimately, death. Seven decades later, the bodies are buried, the headlines are dust, proud Chatham School little but a memory. Only one living soul knows the answer to the questions that tore the soul from the town. Only now can he summon the courage to piece together the jagged fragments of a once tranquil world.

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Review

In 1926 Henry Griswald was a kid, a student of the lovely and unusual Elizabeth Channing, who had recently arrived in his coastal Massachusetts village to teach art at a private school run by his father. Decades later, the people of Henry's village are still racked by guilt and troubled by uncertainty--who, or what, drove Miss Channing to madness and murder? Henry Griswald, narrator of The Chatham School Affair, holds the key. Using the same dark, brooding tone that permeated Breakheart Hill, Thomas Cook has crafted a disturbing yet entertaining psychological thriller.

From the Publisher

When Malcolm Gaines asks attorney Henry Griswald to draw up his will, he resurrects the long-buried secret which haunts both their lives: the truth behind the tragic events the world knew as the Chatham School Affair, the controversial tragedy that destroyed five lives, shattered a quiet community, and forever scarred the two men. Layer by layer, in The Chatham School Affair, Cook paints a stunning portrait of a woman, a school, and a town in which passionate violence seems impossible ... and inevitable. "Thomas Cook's night visions, seen through a lens darkly, are haunting," raved The New York Times Book Review. The Chatham School Affair will cement this superb writer's reputation as one of crime fiction's most prodigious talents.

Edition details

• Publisher: Orion mass market Paperback
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0575402865
• ISBN 13: 9780575402867
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English