A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year: After years of grief and rage, a man finds new purpose in investigating a womanâs unsolved disappearance.
George Gatesâs little boy was killed seven years ago and he has yet to find the cold comfort of seeing someone pay for the crime. Once a world-traveling writer, he now toils away at a local newspaper, quietly seething and plotting imaginary vengeance against the unknown murderer.
Then, during a conversation with the now-retired detective who worked his sonâs case, he learns about a poet named Katherine Carr who disappeared twenty years earlier, leaving writings behind that may or may not contain useful clues. As he grows obsessed with the mystery, heâs assigned to interview an orphan with a rare fatal disease, and the two become an unlikely team in their quest to learn the fate of Katherine Carr, in this emotionally compelling novel by a âmasterâ and winner of the prestigious Edgar Award (Chicago Tribune).
â[An] eerily poignant novel.â âPublishers Weekly (starred review)
âEvery Thomas H. Cook novel is a subtle mind game, but The Fate of Katherine Carr is positively haunting.â âThe New York Times Book Review
âAs much an investigation into character as it is a cold-case mystery.â âBooklist
âDisturbing, psychologically complex . . . At each level, the novel ponders questions of good and evil, of guilt and retribution, and the power of storytelling itself.â âAssociated Press
āđāļĢāļ·āđāļāļāļĨāļķāļāļĨāļąāļāđāļĨāļ°āđāļāļĒāđāļēāļāļ§āļąāļ