A Dancer in the Dust - Hardcover

Thomas H. Cook has been nominated for seven Edgar Awards in five different categories. He is the recipient of the Best Novel Edgar Award for The Chatham School Affair, the Martin Beck Award of the Swedish Academy of Detection, the Herodotus Prize for Best Historical Short Story, and the Barry Award for Best Novel for Red Leaves. His most recent novel was the critically acclaimed Sandrine’s Case.

Edgar Award winner Thomas Cook has a string of beautifully written and elegantly plotted thrillers to his name. A Dancer in the Dust is one of his best ever. This lush story combines current events and a wonderfully realized love story.” Globe & Mail

Cook excels at merging contemporary and past storylines into one narrative . . . [and] masterfully captures the tumultuous state of a country in upheaval.” Kirkus Reviews

[A] very readable genre-twisting thriller/love story/crime novel that will captivate readers from the start to the finish.” Huntington News

Not since John Le Carre’s The Mission Song have I seen such a loving and sorrowful portrait of modern Africa. . . . A dark read, but a worthwhile one.” News & Observer (Raleigh)

To paraphrase Winston Churchill, this novel is a mystery wrapped in a love story immersed in tragedy. . . . The book is written with grace and simplicity. . . . Highly recommended.”—I Love a Mystery

[A Dancer in the Dust] is a story of great loss and one man’s chance at personal redemption, and it is very, very good. . . . Powerful. . . . Every time I had to put this book aside, I couldn’t wait to get back to it.” Crime Segments