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Thomas H. Cook is a legendary figure in crime writing. He has been nominated for the Edgar Award seven times in five different categories, winning the Best Novel Edgar Award for The Chatham School Affair. He has also received the Martin Beck Award of the Swedish Academy of Detection, the Herodotus Prize for Best Historical Short Story, and the Barry for Best Novel for Red Leaves. His first novel with The Mysterious Press was the critically acclaimed The Crime of Julian Wells. He splits his time between New York City and Cape Cod.

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"A consistently engaging court procedural. . . . The real treat is Cook's tender, gradual exploration of the push and pull between Samuel and Sandrine, an unlikely pair."--People (three stars) "Cook supplely strips the courtroom thriller down to its bones and then animates it with a warm, beating heart. . . . This is a story of the mysteries of a long marriage and of a couple who might or might not be meant for each other. Cook plays with and against the conventions of the noir mystery to craft a novel deeper and richer than the genre would seem to allow."--Columbus Dispatch "Sandrine's Case is a story of love lost and rediscovered during the course of a murder trial. Who but Thomas H. Cook could blend love and death with such seamless elegance? He remains one of my favorite writers."--Harlan Coben "With Sandrine's Case Thomas H. Cook once again proves he's one of the very best. Here he uses the courtroom as a prism on the inner workings of life and relationships. It is gripping, moving and elegiac. This book shows a master at work."--Michael Connelly "A mystery novel by Tom Cook is always something more, and unpredictable. It is very difficult to resist turning pages rapidly to discover the outcome of this disturbing case."--Joyce Carol Oates "Often praised for the clarity of his prose and the sheer drive of his storytelling, [Cook] deserves a special citation for bravery. In Sandrine's Case, he not only dares to write a novel with an unpleasant protagonist, but also makes him the narrator."--New York Times Book Review "Bravo to Cook for giving us a story that slowly grows with intensity and depth. . . . [An] insightful, cleverly nonlinear novel."--Christian Science Monitor "[A] wonderful genre-breaking novel. . . . Sandrine's Case is as good as anything written by Scott Turow and John Grisham."--Huntington News "A remarkable piece of writing that sits right at the top of the genre."--Deadly Pleasures "A tender love story in the form of a tense courtroom drama, Sandrine's Case is mystery, metaphor, and morality wrapped together in a nifty package, a chance to observe grace (or treachery) under pressure. Thomas H. Cook's elegant new novel offers all that great narrative pleasure. You'll be baffled right up to the Wow of an ending. What a terrific story!"--Susan Isaacs, author of Compromising Positions and Goldberg Variations "Who could write a gripping novel of tenderness and mercy--its subject a woman who might have decided to frame her husband for her own suspicious death? Thomas H. Cook has done just this. In his prime as a master storyteller, he goes from strength to strength."--Jacqueline Mitchard, bestselling author of The Deep End of the Ocean "Sandrine's Case is a heart-breaking, heart-stopping love story as well as a taut, gripping courtroom drama, woven as masterfully and diabolically as a hangman's noose. Nobody does it better than Thomas H. Cook!"--Judith Kelman, bestselling author of Summer of Storms and The First Stone "Sandrine's Case brings to mind Body Heat and Presumed Innocent, those pinnacles of adultery, marriage and murder. Thomas H. Cook is at his best here as he grabs the reader by the throat and doesn't let go until the verdict is announced."--Ann Hood, author of The Knitting Circle and The Red Thread "From the compelling opening to the poignant resolution, Sandrine's Case is a hauntingly beautiful and deeply moving novel that is at its core a story of a love both complex and enduring. Ingeniously conceived and elegantly written, it throbs with the suspense and insight into the

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