Fate of Katherine Carr (Otto Penzler Books) - Softcover

Cook, Thomas H

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0547263341 ISBN 13: 9780547263342

Publisher: Harper Paperbacks, 2010

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 for the town paper, stories of redemptive triviality about flower festivals and local celebrities, and spends his evenings haunted by the image of his son's last day.

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Review:

PRAISE FOR MASTER OF THE DELTA

"Thomas Cook never disappoints. With Master of the Delta he elevates the game once again. Beautifully written and heavily muscled with character and intrigue, this novel is a tour de force. Nobody tells a story better than Cook."--Michael Connelly

"Enthralling . . . a thrilling, if dangerous, subject for a master storyteller like Cook." - New York Times Book Review

From the Back Cover:

Since the murder of his eight-year-old son, George Gates has written local stories for the town paper. A former travel writer, once he specialized in writing about places where people disappeared, sometimes individuals, sometimes whole societies. Since the tragedy, he plays it small and safe.
Then he hears about Katherine Carr, a woman who vanished twenty years before. She left nothing behind but a few poems and a bizarre story. It is this story that spurs Gates to inquire into its missing author's brief life and tragic fate, an exploration that leads him to make surprising discoveries about his own life.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0547263341
• ISBN 13: 9780547263342
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288