Mortal Memory - Softcover

Cook, Thomas H.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 000647862X ISBN 13: 9780006478621

Publisher: HarperCollins, 1997

Synopsis

From the acclaimed author of the Thumping Good Read Award nominee BREAKHEART HILL – a haunting tale of psychological suspense and mystery.

Cook has long had a brilliant critical reputation, thanks to compelling mysteries such as Sacrificial Ground and Evidence of Blood. Now he has finally begun to reach a wider readership, following the breakthrough success of Breakheart Hill, shortlisted for the 1996 WH Smith Thumping Good Read Award.

In Mortal Memory, which he wrote immediately before Breakheart Hill, he takes the reader on another characteristically haunting journey of discovery, piecing together a crime from the past that still casts its shadow over the present. At the age of nine Steve Farris somehow survived when his father coolly murdered the rest of his family. When, years later, writer Rebecca Soltero interviews him about the tragedy, she gradually reawakens long-suppressed memories of his troubled childhood – until alarming parallels with his current situation begin to emerge.

About this title

About the Author

Twice nominated for an Edgar Award, Thomas H. Cook is the author of thirteen acclaimed novels. Born in Alabama, he lives in New York City.

From the Back Cover

‘WHAT DID MY FATHER DO? HE CAME HOME ONE NIGHT AND KILLED MY MOTHER, MY SISTER AND MY BROTHER…’

Over the years, Steve Farris has done his best to forget. But when writer Rebecca Soltero arrives to interview him about his missing father's crime, she reawakens long-suppressed memories of his troubled childhood.

Gradually, they build up a picture of his family life before the murders – until shocking parallels with his current situation begins to emerge, and Steve knows that he must drop everything until he has discovered the shattering truth about his past.

‘Ever wonder what Columbus felt when he spotted land? It must be akin to discovering a writer of Thomas Cook's ability after years of ignorance. 'Mortal Memory' is one of the best thrillers of the year and shows a writer at the very top of his game. Complex, multi-layered, disturbing… simply brilliant’
BALTIMORE SUN

‘Thomas H. Cook, a New York writer who keeps pushing at the limits of the form, does it again in 'Mortal Memory'. In Cook's sensitive language, the past emerges like a landscape gradually disclosed as a morning fog burns away. His insightful portrait of a man caught between present and past is unusually affecting’
LOS ANGELES TIMES

‘The ending to this chilling study in psychological suspense is a dizzying jolt’
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

Edition details

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 000647862X
• ISBN 13: 9780006478621
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288