The Fate of Katherine Carr - Hardcover

Cook, Thomas H.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0151014019 ISBN 13: 9780151014019

Publisher: Harper, 2009

Synopsis

George Gates used to be a travel writer who specialized in places where people disappeared—Judge Crater, the Lost Colony.Then his eight-year-old son was murdered, the killer never found, and Gates gave up disappearance. Now he writes stories of redemptive triviality about flower festivals and local celebrities for the town paper, and spends his evenings haunted by the image of his son’s last day.

Enter Arlo MacBride, a retired missing-persons detective still obsessed with the unsolved case of Katherine Carr. When he gives Gates the story she left behind—a story of a man stalking a woman named Katherine Carr—Gates too is drawn inexorably into a search for the missing author’s brief life and uncertain fate. And as he goes deeper, he begins to suspect that her tale holds the key not only to her fate, but to his own.

About this title

Book Description:

Published in hardcover by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009 978-0-15-101401-9

About the Author:

Thomas H. Cook was born in Fort Payne, Alabama in 1947. He has been nominated for the Edgar seven times in five different categories. He is the recipient of the Best Novel Edgar (for The Chatham School Affair), the Martin Beck Award of the Swedish Academy of Detection, the Herodotus Prize for Best Historical Short Story, and the Barry for Best Novel (Red Leaves). He has been nominated for the Lawlie Dagger award of the Association of British Crime Writers, the Macavity Award, the Anthony Award, and the Dashiell Hammett Prize. He lives in New York City and on Cape Cod.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0151014019
• ISBN 13: 9780151014019
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 276