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| Red Leaves | 
 enlarge | Author: Thomas H. Cook
Publisher: Quercus Publishing Plc
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 60834
Media: Paperback
Edition: New Ed
Pages: 304
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 6.9 x 4.4 x 1.2
ISBN: 1847240275
EAN: 9781847240279
ASIN: 1847240275
Publication Date: January 11, 2007
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Insightful psychological novel July 28, 2008
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 for.
Both the subject matter and, in some respects the style of recounting the story in flashback, mean that comparisons with "We need to talk about Kevin" are inevitable.
They are different books, but if you like one, then I think you would probably like the other.
Thomas H Cook writes elegantly and insightfully, both the town and the characters are deftly sketched. I have to say I wolfed down this book, so I would certainly recommend it. My only criticism was that the ending was just a little too pat, but clearly other reviewers felt differently.
 Desperately mediocre February 6, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
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. The reviewers who are raving about this book must not have read any of the crime greats like Ian Rankin or even Harlan Coben. I picked it up in a sale and I barely cared enough about the story to get to the end.
 loved it! February 4, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
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 it would spoil the ending if you havent read it!) as I felt so involved emotionally with the characters- I knew it wasnt true but it is a story that could happen and that makes it all the more believable.How many times have you seen a suspects house being searched on the news and thought "they must have done something for the police to search their house?" Read this book only if you have the time to sit and finish it-you wont want to put it down until you find out what happened!
Thomas H. Cook - Red Leaves May 18, 2007
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
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.
Super read March 2, 2007
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
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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