Thomas Cook is one of today’s most acclaimed writers of psychological thrillers, penning hypnotic tales of forbidden love and devastating secrets. Now he has written an unforgettable novel that weaves one man’s tortured life with a deadly mystery that spans five decades….
Riverwood is an artists’ community in the Hudson River valley, a serene place where writers can perfect their craft. But for … But for all its beauty and isolation, it was once touched by a terrible crime–the murder of a teenage girl who lived on the estate fifty years ago. Faye Harrison’s killer was never caught–and now her dying mother is desperate to learn the truth about her daughter’s murder.
Enter Paul Graves, a writer who draws upon the pain of his own tragic past to write haunting tales of mystery. Graves has been summoned to Riverwood for an unusual assignment: to apply the art of fiction to a crime that was real, and then write a story that will answer the questions that keep Faye’s mother from a peaceful death. Just a story. It doesn’t have to be true. Or does it?
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This is the first book I’ve read by Mr. Cook and boy did it take me by surprise. Instruments of Night has it all. The protagonist, Paul Graves, is an author of mystery/horror books. The basis of what he writes comes from his own twisted life’s experiences. He is a haunted recluse whose writing is an attempt to feel alive and to understand the …
Novelist Paul Graves is a man literally haunted by his past. The ghosts of one grim and brutal night invade his thoughts daily, summoned or unbidden, and lend their power to his books.
Raised on a small farm in North Carolina, Graves was already an imaginative young man who had taken a liking to writing when his parents were killed in a car …