Red Leaves - Hardcover

Cook, Thomas H.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0151012504 ISBN 13: 9780151012503

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2005

Synopsis

Eric Moore has reason to be happy. He has a prosperous business, a comfortable home, a stable family life in a quiet town. Then, on an ordinary night, his teenage son Keith is asked to babysit Amy Giordano, the eight-year-old daughter of a neighboring family. The next morning Amy is missing.

Suddenly Eric is one of the stricken parents he has seen on television, professing faith in his child's innocence. As the police investigation increasingly focuses on Keith, Eric must counsel his son, find him a lawyer, protect him from the community's steadily growing suspicion. Except that Eric is not so sure his son is innocent. And if Keith is not . . . and might do the same thing again . . . what then should a father do?

Red Leaves is a story of broken trust and one man's heroic effort to hold fast the ties that bind him to everything he loves.

About this title

Review:

...a brilliant description of how a seemingly perfect life can
fall apart all because of one phone call.Outstanding -- Independent on Sunday

...a cracking book ... deserves to put Cook up in the top bracket
among readers as well as fellow writers -- Manchester Evening News

A terrific piece of work -- Guardian

Red Leaves is one of the best novels you’ll read this year – gripping, beautifully written, surprising and devastating -- Harlan Coben

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

From the Publisher:

Shortlisted for the 2006 Duncan Lawrie Dagger

About this edition

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0151012504
• ISBN 13: 9780151012503
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 289