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by Thomas H. Cook · Umbriel · tapa blanda · 272 pages
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Los Ángeles, 1952. El cadáver de Cathy Lake, una estudiante de primaria, es descubierto junto al estanque del parque, bañado en sangre. Su madre había denunciado su desaparición apenas unas horas antes. Los detectives Cohen y Pierce, responsables de la investigación, buscan al asesino entre los vagabundos que duermen en el parque y rápidamente detienen a Albert Jay Smalls. Sin embargo, tras dos semanas de interrogatorio, la policía no ha conseguido pruebas incriminatorias ni testigos que relacionen a Smalls con la escena del crimen. Si no logran desmontar su coartada en menos de doce horas, deberán dejarlo en libertad. Comienza entonces una cuenta atrás para Cohen y Pierce en busca de alguna pista que les permita retener a Smalls; unas horas decisivas en las que los dos policías deberán bucear en el pasado del detenido y en las conexiones entre todos aquellos relacionados con el caso, incluidos ellos mismos. Con 'El interrogatorio', Thomas H. Cook demuestra una vez más su habilidad para mostrar las múltiples capas de la personalidad del asesino, pero también de aquellos obligados a hallar las razones últimas de un crimen, recreando una atmósfera de suspense que mantiene al lector en vilo hasta la última página.
Thomas Cook was the founder of the travel agency Thomas Cook & Son. He was born into a poor family in Derbyshire and left school at the age of ten to start work as a gardener's boy. He served an apprenticeship as a cabinet maker before becoming an itinerant Baptist preacher. He was a supporter of the temperance movement and his first foray into tourism was a railway excursion to Loughborough for members of the Leicester Temperance Society in 1841. Following the success of this excursion, Cook, by now settled with his family in Leicester, began to organise tours further afield in the British Isles and, eventually, to the United States, Egypt and the Holy Land. In 1872, he went into business with his son as Thomas Cook & Son, with a head office in London. Following his retirement in 1878, he returned to Leicester and took an interest in the Baptist church and charitable work until his death. Cook is credited with having, through his all-inclusive tours, made travel and tourism accessible to a wider public.
