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The Fate of Katherine Carr
Thomas H. Cook
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Description for The Fate of Katherine Carr
Paperback. A mystery about a travel writer who becomes obsessed by a story written twenty years earlier by a woman who disappeared. Num Pages: 276 pages. BIC Classification: FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 190. Good clean copy
George Gates is a former travel writer. He used to specialize in writing about places where people disappeared, sometimes individuals, sometimes whole societies. Now, since the murder of his eight-year-old son, Gates has written gentler stories for the town paper about flower festivals and local celebrities. Enter Arlo MacBride, a retired missing-persons detective who, knowing Gates' past, mentions the case of Katherine Carr, a woman who vanished twenty years before, leaving nothing behind but a few poems and a strange little story. It is this story that spurs Gates to inquire into its missing author's brief life and dire ... Read more
George Gates is a former travel writer. He used to specialize in writing about places where people disappeared, sometimes individuals, sometimes whole societies. Now, since the murder of his eight-year-old son, Gates has written gentler stories for the town paper about flower festivals and local celebrities. Enter Arlo MacBride, a retired missing-persons detective who, knowing Gates' past, mentions the case of Katherine Carr, a woman who vanished twenty years before, leaving nothing behind but a few poems and a strange little story. It is this story that spurs Gates to inquire into its missing author's brief life and dire ... Read more
Product Details
Condition
Used, Like New
Publisher
Quercus Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781849162067
SKU
KSG0009400
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1
About Thomas H. Cook
Thomas H. Cook is one of North America's most respected crime writers. He won an Edgar award for his novel The Chatham School Affair and has been shortlisted for the award six times, most recently with Red Leaves (Quercus 2006). He lives in California and Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
Reviews for The Fate of Katherine Carr
'A powerful exploration of the redemptive force of vengeance' Daily Mail.
Daily Mail
'Cook's writing is wonderfully atmospheric' Independent.
Independent
'Positively haunting... Cook walks his listeners to the edge of the grave - where he leaves us breathless' Scotsman.
Scotsman
Daily Mail
'Cook's writing is wonderfully atmospheric' Independent.
Independent
'Positively haunting... Cook walks his listeners to the edge of the grave - where he leaves us breathless' Scotsman.
Scotsman