Item: Red Leaves

Author: Paulina Simons

Blurb: On a New England college campus, the naked body of a beautiful
student is found frozen in a bank of snow. Why had she not even been reported
missing by her friends?

Spencer O'Malley, the police detective assigned to the case, is soon drawn
into the strange world of four friends, Jim, Conni, Albert and Kristina.
O'Malley finds that these children of privledge who played, studied, and
occasionaly slept together also kept secrets of their own, secrets that
must be pieced together to form an entirely new picture.

O'Malley is a stranger in this Ivy League environment, yet he feels an
affinity with the victim. In her death, he gradually discovers truth of
her mysterious and complex life, and each relevation is more shocking
than the last.

Suspenseful, Clausrophobic and utterly compelling, Red Leaves puts Paulina
Simons at the very front rank of contemporary writers.

Condition: Brand new, read through only once.