Blood Innocents

“An excellently written and superb murder mystery” “Blood Innocents” was written by Thomas H. Cook. Mr. Cook has many works attributable to him and has received several book awards for his writing. The ‘Quest for Anna Klein” is the subject of a previous review and a popular current work from this aut......more

Blood Innocents is American crime writer Thomas H. Cook’s first novel. Published in 1980, it tells the story of NYC police detective John Reardon who, returning to work after the death of his wife, is given a strange case involving the slaughter of two deer in the Children’s Zoo in Central Park. Yep......more

Every time I pick up a book by this author, I am wowed beyond words. The Chatham School Affair was my first experience with his work, and it intrigued me because I live near Cape Cod. I devoured the book in a day, and have been smitten ever since. Mr. Cook writes taut, understated mysteries. He pain......more

This book is better than the later ones of Mr Cook that I have read (being released in 1980) It still has his big failing in my eyes of being far too wordy. Its only a short book, but it seems that with all the words he tries to put in to explain things it actually makes the actual conclusion of the......more