Works by Alan Cook

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Thirteen Diamonds
Type of work: Novel
Published by: FirstPublish, Inc., Orlando, FL
ISBN: 1-929925-32-8
Setting: Chapel Hill, NC retirement community; present.
Brief plot description: Retired mathematician gets involved in a murder investigation
when a fellow resident of her retirement community drops dead at the bridge
table while holding a perfect hand of 13 diamonds.
Character notes: Female retired mathematics professor who is good at puzzles.
Schoolteacher granddaughter and grad student boyfriend assist her.

Catch a Falling Knife
Type of work: Novel
Published by: FirstPublish, Inc., Orlando, FL
ISBN: 1-931743-47-9
Setting: North Carolina; present.
Brief plot description: When her granddaughter's boyfriend, Mark, is accused of
sexual harassment soon after starting a teaching job at a small college, Lillian
Morgan tries to help him and finds that the "harassment policy from hell" could
end his career. Then a student is murdered and Mark becomes the chief suspect. While attempting to clear Mark, Lillian forms an unlikely alliance with the owner
of a strip club and finds that life on campus isn't what it used to be (if it ever
was).
Character notes: This is the second Lillian Morgan mystery.

Hotline to Murder
Type of work: Novel
Published by: AuthorHouse, Bloomington, IN
ISBN: 1-4208-3825-3
Setting: Southern California; present
Brief plot description: Tony Schmidt joins the Central Hotline in sunny Bonita Beach, California to improve his listening skills. Shahla Lawton joins the Hotline to fulfill a volunteering requirement for her high school. Neither one expects to get mixed up in a murder investigation. But that is before Shahla's best friend, Joy, also a listener, is
murdered. Tony and Shahla discover that they are able to uncover information that the police can't. Information about the "inappropriate" callers who haunt the Hotline, and information about other people with a connection to the Hotline who may have hidden motives to kill the beautiful Joy. Questions arise. Will the murderer strike the Hotline again? And if the murderer does strike again, will Shahla be the next target? Tony and Shahla have harrowing adventures in venues ranging from
Southern California to Las Vegas, as they try to distinguish the annoying-but-harmless callers from the dangerous, and figure out whether the murderer might just be somebody not connected with the Hotline.

The Hayloft
Type of work: Novel
Published by: AuthorHouse, Bloomington, IN
ISBN: 1-4259-4221-0
Setting: Western New York in the 1950s
Brief plot description: Gary Blanchard, a high school senior and journalist who
takes "freedom of the press" too literally for his school administration, is kicked out of one high school and enrolls in another--the school where his cousin Ralph fell, or was pushed, off the auditorium balcony.
Character notes: Gary Blanchard, a high school senior and journalist who
takes "freedom of the press" too literally for his school administration.
Other notes: bobby sox, slow dancing, bomb shelters, the communist
conspiracy

Honeymoon for Three
Type of work: Novel
Published by: AuthorHouse, Bloomington, IN
ISBN: 9781434309501 9781434309518
Setting: California and Western United States
Brief plot description: It is 1964, 10 years after Gary Blanchard's high school adventures in The Hayloft. He and his love, Penny, are going on the trip of their lives, and, oh yes, they re getting married along the way. What they don't know is that they're being stalked by Alfred, a high school classmate of Penny who has a bellybutton fetish.
Character notes: Gary Blanchard, IBM computer expert, meets his love, Penny via computer match. Penny had a flip attitude toward marriage before she met Gary. Alfred has an outie bellybutton and has never been successful with girls.
Awatds: Silver Quill award from American Authors Association; Best Mountain West book from Readers Choice

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Last updated: March 26, 2008