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by Thomas H. Cook (Author)
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  • Paperback: 304 pages
  • Publisher: Quercus Publishing Plc; New edition edition (11 Jan 2007)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1847240275
  • ISBN-13: 978-1847240279
  • Product Dimensions: 17.4 x 11.2 x 3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
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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 'Red Leaves is a brilliant description of how a seemingly perfect life can fall apart all because of one phone call. Outstanding.' Independent on Sunday


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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A brilliant, poignant novel from a brilliant writer., 25 May 2006
This review is from: Red Leaves (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.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Super read, 2 Mar 2007
By Mr. Simon Clarke "simbadiow" (Isle of Wight) - See all my reviews
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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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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Thomas H. Cook - Red Leaves, 18 May 2007
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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.

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3.0 out of 5 stars 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 3 days ago by Ventris Arden

5.0 out of 5 stars 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 9 months ago by J. J. O'neill

5.0 out of 5 stars 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
Published 13 months ago by Crime Buff

4.0 out of 5 stars 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
Published 15 months ago by Jaybird

1.0 out of 5 stars Desperately mediocre
I have to agree with the review who said this book tries too hard to be a psychological crime novel that raises questions, and ends up just being an OK whodunnit. Read more
Published 21 months ago by Ms. R. M. Keys

5.0 out of 5 stars loved it!
I have read many great books and a lot of thomas h cook's but this one stands above the rest for me-its a long time since I have read a book that made me cry ( I wont say why as... Read more
Published 21 months ago by Lynne M. Robertson

2.0 out of 5 stars Trying to be another 'We Need To Talk About Kevin' - but failing
My overwhelming impression was that this book was very self-conscious, by which I mean that I felt the author was going out of his way to write a book that provoked discussion and... Read more
Published on 8 Feb 2007 by Mungus

5.0 out of 5 stars Review of Red Leaves
A novel that asks as many questions as it answers; do we really know our families,our neighbours,ourselves? An old man,embittered and full of hate. Read more
Published on 28 Jan 2007 by Raptreader

5.0 out of 5 stars What a rollercoaster
Oh my. I'd never read any Thomas H Cook before but I will be after this. I asked for it for Christmas after it came up in my Amazon recommendations. Read more
Published on 17 Jan 2007 by Lady K

4.0 out of 5 stars Highly recommended
Like the other contributors I really enjoyed this book and also like some of the others it was my first Cook novel. Read more
Published on 14 Jan 2007 by Too Many Books

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