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"Edgar Award winner Thomas H. Cook has earned acclaim and a growing legion of fans for his brilliantly styled, intensely evocative thrillers.  Now, in his most seductive suspense novel yet, he draws us into a world of love, betrayal, and murder from which one man can find no escape. ""It's better to know, don't you think?...  No matter what the cost?"" Forty years ago in Sequoyah, Georgia, Charles Overton was sentenced to die for the murder of a young woman, even though her body was never found.  But the prosecution had all the ammunition it needed: a blood-stained dress and a jury out for vengeance....   Now true-crime writer Jackson Kinley is coming home to grieve for an old friend.  But Sequoyah sheriff Ray Tindall's death has left many questions: Why had he reopened the Overton case...  and then, without explanation, shut it down?  What was he looking for?  And what did he find that he couldn't bear to reveal?  The search for answers leads Kinley into a small-town web of corruption, secrecy, and lies--and finally into the darkest corners of the human heart, where the terrible truth lies...in the Evidence of Blood."

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In [his] previous novels...Cook has shown himself to be a writer of poetic gifts, constantly pushing against the presumed limits of crime fiction.... In this fine new book, he has gone to the edge, and survived triumphantly. --Charles Champlin, Los Angeles Times Book Review A highly satisfying story, strong in color and atmosphere, intelligent and exacting. --The New York Times Book Review

In [his] previous novels...Cook has shown himself to be a writer of poetic gifts, constantly pushing against the presumed limits of crime fiction.... In this fine new book, he has gone to the edge, and survived triumphantly. --Charles Champlin, Los Angeles Times Book Review A highly satisfying story, strong in color and atmosphere, intelligent and exacting. --The New York Times Book Review

In [his] previous novels...Cook has shown himself to be a writer of poetic gifts, constantly pushing against the presumed limits of crime fiction.... In this fine new book, he has gone to the edge, and survived triumphantly. --Charles Champlin, Los Angeles Times Book Review A highly satisfying story, strong in color and atmosphere, intelligent and exacting. --The New York Times Book Review

In [his] previous novels...Cook has shown himself to be a writer of poetic gifts, constantly pushing against the presumed limits of crime fiction.... In this fine new book, he has gone to the edge, and survived triumphantly. --Charles Champlin, Los Angeles Times Book Review A highly satisfying story, strong in color and atmosphere, intelligent and exacting. --The New York Times Book Review

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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.

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