The Red Thread: A Novel in Three Incarnations

by Roderick Townley

Book Overview

How do you avenge -- or forgive -- your own murder four hundred years after it happened? Prompted by recurrent dreams, sixteen-year-old Dana Landgrave uncovers an ancient crime that has drawn the same souls together through three lifetimes. There's nothing sinister about the girl's sunlit twenty-first-century American life in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Yet, centuries ago, terrible things were done -- by someone she knows Could it be her easygoing,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1416908943
• ISBN13: 9781416908944
• Release Date: March 2007
• Publisher: Atheneum Books
• Length: 294 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher

Customer Reviews

Totally brilliant and just a little creepy

The Red Thread is an almost thriller about a girl with nightmares who discovers she has past lives. I could hardly bare to put this book down; it was just that intriguing. Dana has to solve a mystery about her nightmares, and through hypnosis, she finds two past, connected histories that reach into the present. I don't believe in past lives, but this was presented and explained fairly well. Some of it didn't make sense, like some things relating to Dana's psychiatrist, but other than that...wow.

A teen's recurring dreams reveals not only an old crime but the linkage of souls through three lifet

How do you avenge or forgive your own murder four hundred years after it happened? A teen's recurring dreams reveals not only an old crime but the linkage of souls through three lifetimes in a repeating drama only Dana might be able to break. Her journey to find the heart of truth and to break the chain of repeated events makes for a gripping time travel/ghost story that is compelling and hard to put down.

The Red Thread

Dana has horrible nightmares, is having trouble in school and is seeing a counselor. Together, they determine Dana's problems are rooted in the past - past lives. Dana's search for the truth takes her on an adventure that is riveting. I started this book at 3pm and finished at 2 am! The author's view of history and how it may affect some people is fascinating. He includes some twists and turns that makes the reader continue truning pages. His characters are very true to life without gratuitious bad language or sex. Highly recommended!