Red Leaves - Softcover

Cook, Thomas H.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0156032341 ISBN 13: 9780156032346

Publisher: Mariner Books, 2006

Synopsis

Eric Moore has a prosperous business, a comfortable home, a stable family life in a quiet town. Then, on an ordinary night, his teenage son Keith babysits Amy Giordano, the eight-year-old daughter of a neighboring family. The next morning Amy is missing, and Eric isn't sure his son is innocent.

In his desperate attempt to hold his family together by proving his-and the community's-suspicions wrong, Eric finds himself in a vortex of doubt and broken trust. What should he make of Keith's strange behavior? Of his wife's furtive phone calls to a colleague? Of his brother's hints that he knows things he's afraid to say?

In a "heart-wrenching and gut-wrenching" (New York Daily News) race against time and mistrust, Eric must discover what has happened to Amy Giordano and face the long-buried family secrets he has so carefully ignored.

About this title

Book Description:

Published in hardcover by Harcourt, 2005, 0-15-101250-4

From the Back Cover:

"Thomas Cook writes like a wounded angel, and Red Leaves is one of his masterworks."—Peter Straub

 
Eric Moore has a stable life in a quiet town. Then, on an ordinary night, his teenage son Keith babysits Amy Giordano, the eight-year-old daughter of a neighboring family. The next morning Amy is missing, and Eric isn't sure his son is innocent. Caught in a vortex of doubt and lies, Eric must find out what happened to Amy Giordano before his—and the community's—suspicions about Keith are proved right.  An Edgar Award Nominee for Best Novel

"Red Leaves is both heart-wrenching and gut-wrenching. A family can be 'briefly held,' and yet so enduring."--New York Daily News

"[Cook is] one of the most suspenseful of crime-fiction writers . . . Readers will glimpse blurred snapshots from their own lives--and be afraid."—Cleveland Plain Dealer

 
"This disturbing exploration of humans' true motives . . . builds to a rapid and unexpected climax."--Newsweek

THOMAS H. COOK has been nominated for the Edgar Allan Poe Award five times in four different categories, and won the Edgar for Best Novel for The Chatham School Affair. He lives in New York City and Cape Cod. 

 

 

 
 

About this edition

• Publisher: Mariner Books
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0156032341
• ISBN 13: 9780156032346
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 300