The Fate of Katherine Carr

by Thomas H. Cook

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0151014019
• ISBN13: 9780151014019
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Fascinating and Spooky

Seldom as a story hooked me as much as "The Fate of Katherine Carr". Here the shocking, the mysterious, and the supernatural(?) are mixed together in a multiple story format addressing the injustice of fate and the search for a spiritual antidote to all this injustice. Nothing is solved, of course, the reader is left to ponder what it all means. But the unresolved fate of the characters left me turning the pages, hardly able to put the book down. Well done.

A Search for Justice

"The Fate of Katherine Carr" is not only an intriguing story about a woman who disappears, it is an erudite examination of evil in the world and the human need for moral justice. As always, Cook's characters are clearly drawn and fascinating. His extraordinary facility with language and his intriguing plots surpass that of most contemporary writers. This is good literature that stimulates the imagination and entertains. We have read many of Thomas Cook's novels and eagerly await his next publication.

Multi-Layered Mystery

This is truly an emotion filled mystery that handles the subject of missing persons and child victims with a captivating multi-layered tale. The writing was beautifully descriptive and characters touchingly fragile. A reporter who suffers after the murder of his own child researches two subjects; a detective with a haunting unsolved case and precocious young girl dieing from Progeria, an aging disease. This book made me drop all my other reading and stole my attention until the very satisfying ending and beyond. This is my first experience with this author who has many other titles I will be looking at though I can't imagine how The Fate Katherine Carr can be topped.

Intricate mystery, memorable characters, beautiful prose

Katherine Carr disappeared twenty years ago. She is the mystery that Arlo McBride, the retired homicide detective has never forgotten. She left behind poems and a story and little else. George Gates, once a travel writer, has something he can't leave behind; the death of his eight year old son, killed by a predator, the mystery never solved. Alice Barrows is leaving everything behind. She is twelve years old and dying from progeria. In this beautiful story of vengeance, redemption and hope the fates of Alice and George and Katherine are woven together, in Cook's always luminous prose. Cook writes in allusions and metaphors and pictures so that you see the story as he writes it, with an immediacy of description that keeps the reader turning the pages. I'm not sure why I devoured the book but it was some combination of gorgeous writing, great characters and solid plotting. Nothing is ever outlandish but Cook takes you further and further from the mundane and you find yourself hoping and believing for all the characters. If you have never read Cook? Start with this one. This book is a rare treat.

A gem of mystery and suspense by a Master storyteller

Edgar award winner Thomas H. Cook delivers one of the finest tension filled mysteries out there. This is mystery writing at its most imaginative, provocative and captivating. If you don't have a lot of time to find an exceptional read then get your hands on this book. The story is chilling and haunting. There is a menacing dark sustained drive here that will keep you guessing and turning pages until the last one. . If you want to go on a roller coaster ride..... One of the many qualities that makes this read unique is its simple texture. It is not just a fine mystery, it is a special piece of literature. The reader feels that each word is carefully chosen-written to compel, to push the book forward with more and more intensity and agitation. An exceptional offering.