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    Master of the Delta
    Master of the Delta
    Master of the Delta
    Audiobook10 hours

    Master of the Delta

    Written by Thomas H. Cook

    Narrated by T. Ryder Smith

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    Multiple Edgar Award nominee Thomas H. Cook is the author of dark, terrifying thrillers like Places in the Dark and Red Leaves. In Master of the Delta, it's 1954 down in Mississippi and Jack Branch has finally come home, taking a job as a high school teacher. He soon learns that one of his students is the son of a notorious local murderer, the Coed Killer. And as they say, like father, like son.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateSep 19, 2008
    ISBN9781436145732
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    Thomas H. Cook

    THOMAS H. COOK was born in Fort Payne, Alabama. He has been nominated for Edgar Awards seven times in five different categories. He received the Best Novel Edgar, the Barry for Best Novel, and has been nominated for numerous other awards.

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    • 5/5
      Character development was excellent. Loved tge way it went back and forth. Excellent book to listen to.
    • 3/5
      This is the story of Jack Branch, a high school teacher currently teaching a class on evil. When he finds out one of his students is the son of the locally infamous Coed Killer, he decides to take the student under his wing. Jack gives an assignment to the class to write a term paper on someone who is evil, and suggests to Eddie that he write about his own father.

      Although the storyline was good and carried me along, I had one big problem with the ending: Why did the trial cover so much of Jack's mentoring of Eddie and his term paper? It didn't end up having much at all to do with the actual crimes committed. The entire book which was about this term paper, and Eddie's father, and hints of a secret between Eddie and Jack's father, only to have it all come to absolutely nothing. And I never did figure out if Jack's father was telling the truth about the story of Pip in "The Book of Days" or not. Good storytelling, great characterization, but in the end didn't make much sense.
    • 5/5
      Master of the Delta is the first of Thomas H. Cook's novels that I have read. I loved this book, and the beautiful writing style. The novel is about Jack Branch, a local teacher and lifelong resident of the Delta. Mr. Branch begins to mentor one of his students, Eddie, who wants to learn more about his father, "The Coed Killer." In a small town, Eddie never can get away from the shadow of what his father did decades earlier. This story narrated by Mr. Branch, mostly through flashbacks. The foreshadowing is wonderfully done, and made this book a page turner, for me. I'm looking forward to more of Mr. Cook's works.
    • 3/5
      While the suspense builds in this modern gothic tale of the south, there was something missing that left this reader wanting at the end of the tale. It is an attractive narrative of a native returning to his home town to teach literature. He tries to mentor a young boy and in doing so help the boy delve into the past crime of his father. The novel then hangs on the consequences of this decision and the twists and turns, while somewhat dark and certainly unexpected, did not impress me. The discoveries of both teacher and student seem contrived to create an effect, and it is that contrivance that impedes the ultimate success of the novel. The author's smooth style and the structure of the narrative are both excellent and make this a flawed, but worthwhile read.
    • 3/5
      Trust the tale, not the teller. Jack Branch would have a reader believe he is a great son, teacher, mentor, lover, friend. Certainly every story he tells is intended to convince a reader of this; however, it just ain't so. The truth is much simpler.. Jack is a terrible teacher (what a bore with all those lecures), a dutiful if dimwitted son (his father really would like to go into that nursing home), a rotten mentor, and an out and out liar. Jack tells his story in a coy manner meant to suggest gravitas. Something wicked this way happened (1954 South), and Jack suggests that he is at the center of the tale and responsible for the many tragedies it engenders. The truth is he is more like Zelig in trying to insert himself into everything important in the town. If you are interested in how first person narrators twist stories to benefit themselves, this is an interesting take on the genre.