num_pages: 289
description: 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.
language: English
title: Red Leaves
titlecomplete: Red Leaves
genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller, Drama, Mystery Thriller, Adult, Novels, Contemporary, Crime, Suspense
ratings_count: 2613
awards: awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Barry Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Anthony Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Martin Beck Award, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Edgar Award
category: Best Novel
publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt