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The Fate of Katherine Carr
The Fate of Katherine Carr
Author: Thomas H. Cook
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 ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780151014019
ISBN-10: 0151014019
Publication Date: 6/23/2009
Pages: 288
Rating:
  • Currently 3.3/5 Stars.
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3.3 stars, based on 15 ratings
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback, Audio Cassette, Audio CD
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myanniecat avatar reviewed The Fate of Katherine Carr on + 218 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 3
Although not my favorite book by this author, it was still so beautifully written that it's hard not to be drawn into the story. A writer is haunted by the murder of his son seven years ago. He meets a retired cop who's obsessed with the case of a woman who disappeared 20 years ago. It's a story within a story and the author weaves them together brilliantly. It's more character driven and slow moving, with a slight supernatural element. It's dark and eerie with eloquent language. It may not appeal to some, but the way this guy writes he could make the phone book interesting to me....
reviewed The Fate of Katherine Carr on + 379 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
Thomas Cook has written a complex story-within-a-story-within-a-story that examines the nature of evil. George Gates is a newspaper reporter of human interest stories whose only son was brutally murdered at the age of eight by a person who was never apprehended. He becomes interested in, and begins to explore, the case of Katherine Carr, a woman who disappeared twenty years earlier. Added to the poignancy is a child dying of progeria, whom he befriends. Together, they explore Katherine Carr's story. Supernatural elements blend with random facts throughout this novel.
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