The Last Talk with Lola Faye, Thomas H. Cook
The Last Talk with Lola Faye, Thomas H. Cook
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The Last Talk with Lola Faye

Author: Thomas H. Cook

Narrator: David Aaron Baker

Unabridged: 8 hr 52 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 01/21/2010


Synopsis

New York Times best-selling author and Edgar Award winner Thomas H. Cook's atmospheric thrillers cut to the core of humanity's deepest fears. Here, a floundering middle-aged historian reluctantly sits down with the woman he suspects was responsible for his father's murder decades before. As they drink, they open up about this seminal event and he discovers much of what he thought to be true is anything but.

About Thomas H. Cook

Thomas H. Cook was born in Fort Payne, Alabama, in 1947. He has been nominated for the Edgar Award seven times in five different categories. He received the best novel Edgar for The Chatham School Affair, the Martin Beck Award, the Herodotus Prize for best historical short story, and the Barry for best novel for Red Leaves, and has been nominated for numerous other awards.


Reviews

3.5 stars It took the glowing reviews of a Canadian (thank you, Jaidee!) and a South Carolinian (thank you, Clarice!) to finally give local (as in hailing from a town a few miles from here in NE Alabama) author Thomas H. Cook a chance. The three small-town libraries around here all have a wide array......more

Goodreads review by Bandit

Every time I read a Thomas H. Cook book I'm always struck anew by just how good of a writer he is. He creates these terrific seemingly simple yet upon closer examination infinitely intricate dramas of ordinary lives visited by violent crimes and the way those visitations come to be and remain to ech......more

Goodreads review by Sara

Reading this novel was very much like watching an Indie film. The entire novel takes place in a hotel bar where Lucas (a self-proclaimed boring history book writer) and Lola Faye (his father's former mistress) meet and discuss old times. As you can imagine, they're not reminiscing about "the good old......more

Goodreads review by Gail

Poetic...dark...suspenseful...satisfying. For this reader each of these words aptly describe award winning author Thomas H. Cook's beautifully written novel THE LAST TALK WITH LOLA FAYE. Reading it is a bit like watching an absorbing two person play as the story is revealed in a conversation between......more