- Hardcover: 296 pages
- Publisher: ISIS Publishing; large type edition edition (1 Mar 2007)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0753178060
- ISBN-13: 978-0753178065
- Product Dimensions: 24.1 x 16.2 x 2.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,648,445 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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“Thomas Cook writes like a wounded angel and Red Leaves is one of his masterworks. Sorrow, suspicion, fear and forgiveness hang suspended over an almost unbearably increasing tension. In Cook's hands, the crime novel, if that's what this is, moves firmly into literature.” Peter Straub
"Red Leaves is one of the best novels you'll read this year - gripping, beautifully written, surprising and devastating. Thomas H. Cook has long been one of my favourite writers. Red Leaves will show you why.” Harlan Coben
“A splendid if painful destruction of the American dream by everyday evil… you won't be able to put it down.” Maxim Jakubowski, Guardian
“Red Leaves is a brilliant description of how a seemingly perfect life can fall apart all because of one phone call. Outstanding and so very melancholic.” 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 --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
"Red Leaves is one of the best novels you'll read this year - gripping, beautifully written, surprising and devastating. Thomas H. Cook has long been one of my favourite writers. Red Leaves will show you why.” Harlan Coben
“A splendid if painful destruction of the American dream by everyday evil… you won't be able to put it down.” Maxim Jakubowski, Guardian
“Red Leaves is a brilliant description of how a seemingly perfect life can fall apart all because of one phone call. Outstanding and so very melancholic.” 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 --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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"Thomas Cook writes like a wounded angel and Red Leaves is one of his masterworks. Sorrow, suspicion, fear and forgiveness hang suspended over an almost unbearably increasing tension. In Cook's hands, the crime novel, if that's what this is, moves firmly into literature." Peter Straub "Red Leaves is one of the best novels you'll read this year - gripping, beautifully written, surprising and devastating. Thomas H. Cook has long been one of my favourite writers. Red Leaves will show you why." Harlan Coben "A splendid if painful destruction of the American dream by everyday evil you won't be able to put it down." Maxim Jakubowski, Guardian "Red Leaves is a brilliant description of how a seemingly perfect life can fall apart all because of one phone call. Outstanding and so very melancholic." 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
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25 of 25 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
What can I say! I loved this book. It is a suspenseful novel which centres on the disappearance of a little girl. The novel is seen through the eyes of the main protagonist, Eric. Amy Giordano has vanished, presumed taken whilst being looked after by Eric's son, Keith. As the days stretch by without Amy being found, suspicion grows within what had been a harmonious family unit. Were they ever such a harmonious family or was it all just a big lie?
I have loved previous novels by Thomas H. Cook and feel he isn't given the crdit like other American novelists in Britain. This novel drip feeds you the suspense as past and present begin to overlap. This is not a book with high drama and car chases. This is a little sample of reality, of what can and does happen to a normal family when lies and suspicion threaten to explode all your ideals.
This is a very humane and poignant book. I couldn't put it down.
I have loved previous novels by Thomas H. Cook and feel he isn't given the crdit like other American novelists in Britain. This novel drip feeds you the suspense as past and present begin to overlap. This is not a book with high drama and car chases. This is a little sample of reality, of what can and does happen to a normal family when lies and suspicion threaten to explode all your ideals.
This is a very humane and poignant book. I couldn't put it down.
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This book was truly a revelation to me. I've never read - or even particularly heard - of Cook before, and am a little surprised after reading the book. He seems to be an unsung hero of the crime genre (rather like The Fall in the world of music) critically lauded but not that popularly known. After reading this, though, you can know the crime genre is in safe hands. Yes, there is a lot of complete rubbish in the genre (and in any sphere of writing) but crime fiction, when it is written the best it can be, is as much literature as anything that might cart off the Booker. And this is it written as best it can be; this is literature - the case is proven. Red Leaves is a beautifully written, poigniant, powerful, moving book. America loves book in which their American dream comes crumbling down around the heads of noble, hard-working men (Mystic River), and this is one of those (it was shortlisted for the Edgar and the new Duncan lawrie Dagger; appallingly, it won neither and probably deserved both). An elegiac examination of a disappearance, a disintegrating family life, of dangerous, corrosive suspicion among families. It's written with an intensity and gloomy beauty that are rare, but that sets it out as among the best of fiction. The end is shocking, wrenching, and emotionally shattering. This book leaves you the way few books are able to. I'll be reading Thomas H. Cook again.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I disagree with the other reviewer who said that the writer is trying to do a "We need to talk about Kevin". Thomas H Cook is a writer who I usually think of as writing out of his element. His subject matter tends to be of the common or garden slash/murder/depths of evil type of genre beloved of the supermarket shelves. However his writing style is far too good for this type of book. I found myself reading this book far too fast purely because I was pulled along by the great storyline and I had to keep slowing down to admire his writing. I still finished it the same day that I started. Thomas H Cook could undoubtedly write a book of the depth of "We need to talk about Kevin" as he clearly has the literary skills to do so, but whilst he does such a good job of elevating the genre he is in, I'm not complaining.
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*PERFECTION*
Eric Moore's teenage son was babysitting his neighbour's 8 yr old girl when she went missing that night. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Book Scout
Kept me interested from start to finish
Great read. This is a story that makes you ask what would I do, how would we cope? I found I was more focused on the plight of the teenage boy who was under suspicion than the... Read more
Published 7 months ago by Rie
Excellent... after the first two chapters
I initially found Red Leaves hard to get into. The first two chapters throw names and situations at you that you obviously have no knowledge of. Read more
Published 8 months ago by Kerry Wilkinson
Hard to put down
Red Leaves was recommended to me by a work colleague. I purchased the book to take away on holiday and thought it would last me two weeks - I wasn't going to be reading for long... Read more
Published 9 months ago by Jenny R
Another cracking mystery from Edgar Award-winning author
Like all Thomas H. Cook's books, which one might describe as somewhat sombre psycho- dramas, 'Red Leaves' has the most disturbing and intriguing premise - what would you do if your... Read more
Published 15 months ago by Alan Cluer
An excellent read
I bought this on a whim and from the first page absolutely couldn't put it down. I'm not a fast reader, so it's a good job I'm on holiday at the moment, because I read until I... Read more
Published 22 months ago by Bibliobeck
Don't put this book under the category 'crime'
A reader can be put off by categorizing books. If you don't like 'crime' novels as a genre, you would be put off reading this novel - and that would be a pity. Read more
Published on 6 Nov 2009 by Ventris Arden
Really Cooking
This is a suspense filled thriller and also not one but two "whodunnit" crime mysteries. It contains clues, red herrings, surprise revelations and , in the best tradition of such... Read more
Published on 20 Jan 2009 by Rotgut
Marvellous
What an excellent story. I've found a new author and will be buying lots more of his books.
Can't believe anybody could not appreciate this book
Can't believe anybody could not appreciate this book
Published on 5 Oct 2008 by Crime Buff
Insightful psychological novel
Red Leaves is the story of a family's response when suspicion falls on their awkward, loner, teenage son, following the disappearance of an eight year girl that he was babysitting... Read more
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