wiki-commons:Special:FilePath/Counterfeit-son. Counterfeit Son by Elaine Marie Alphin - book cover, description.wikipedia-en:Counterfeit_Son?oldid=1110651398&ns=0 Elaine Marie Alphin Counterfeit Son Published: Sep-2000 (Hardcover) Jul-2002 (Paperback) Formats: Print / eBook Main Genre: General Fiction Time Period: Contemporary Pages: 192 Age Level: 12-16 Rating: Purchase: Share: Description Genres Awards A WAY OUT.wiki-commons:Special:FilePath/Counterfeit-son.jpg?width=300.

It received a 2001 Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for Best Young Adult Mystery. Counterfeit Son is a 2000 novel by Elaine Marie Alphin and was written for young adults.The book Counterfeit Son basically talks about a child whose name is Cameron and whose father - Hank Miller is a murderer. Unlike the narrator of Counterfeit Son, who gained a true understanding of himself only at the conclusion, Ian.

The book is published by Puffin Books in New York, United States of America. Lerner/Carolrhoda, 15.95 (244pp) ISBN 978-0-8225-0535-8. Though Alphin races through the conflicts a little too quickly, she achieves a neat and happy ending readers will be enthralled by her suspenseful plot. The book Counterfeit Son is written by Elaine Marie Alphin, who is the winner of the Edgar Allan Poe Award. /rebates/2f97801423014702fCounterfeit-Alphin-Elaine-Marie-01423014772fplp&. The author's treatment of each character's psychological wounds is also impressive, and she doesn't skirt the subject of DNA testing or other forensic refutation of Cameron's identity. The tensions accelerate to a fever pitch when Pop's accomplice Cougar shows up, threatening to unmask him if Cameron doesn't cooperate with Cougar's crimes. Counterfeit Son Elaine Marie Alphin 3.

He chokes down Neil's favorite meals and fumbles for the answers to old family riddles, all the time observed by his hostile sister, who resents the effect that Neil's disappearance and rediscovery has had on their parents. Alphin (Tournament of Time) builds the pressure masterfully, describing Cameron's constant fear of being found out by the Laceys or the suspicious police detective. Cameron, seeing a chance at a normal life, decides to pass himself off as one of Pop's murder victims and claims he is Neil Lacey, missing for six years. As this gripping novel opens, the police have finally raided his Tennessee home and fatally shot Pop. Cameron Miller's Pop locked him in the cellar while he beat to death the boys he kidnapped-more than 20 boys over the years and Cameron, too, has suffered at his father's hands.