by Thomas H. Cook · Umbriel · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788495618276
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«Regreso a Breakheart Hill» is the crime novel by Thomas H. Cook, published by Umbriel in paperback (288 pages, in Spanish).
In the summer of 1961, in Choctaw (Alabama), Ben Wade falls in love with Kelli Troy, an enigmatic young woman. A tragic event months later shocks the town and leaves questions. Years later, Ben, now a doctor, reconstructs the events that culminated at Breakheart Hill: a story of love, guilt, and secrets.
Work originally published as «Breakheart Hill» in 1995. Belongs to the Umbriel crime fiction collection.
Recommended for readers of crime and suspense fiction, with a story of mystery and emotional weight.
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.
