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    The Fate of Katherine Carr
    The Fate of Katherine Carr
    The Fate of Katherine Carr
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    The Fate of Katherine Carr

    Written by Thomas H. Cook

    Narrated by Brian Hutchison

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    Edgar Award-winning author Thomas H. Cook spins a riveting tale about one man's struggle to cope with staggering loss. Until his son was kidnapped and murdered, George Gates was a globe-trotting travel writer. Now he writes boring articles by day and broods at night. But when a retiring cold-case detective piques his interest with details of a missing writer, he feels compelled to discover her fate.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateApr 16, 2010
    ISBN9781440790317
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    Thomas H. Cook

    THOMAS H. COOK was born in Fort Payne, Alabama. He has been nominated for Edgar Awards seven times in five different categories. He received the Best Novel Edgar, the Barry for Best Novel, and has been nominated for numerous other awards.

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    • 5/5
      This is a wonderful book, a mystery with a hint of the supernatural, a story-within-a-story-within-a-story. George Gates, a travel writer on a trip up an unnamed tropical river, passes the time by regaling a fellow traveler with the story of an unsolved missing person and his own search for possible clues. George, whose young son was abducted and murdered, has been reduced to writing obituaries and local news items for a small-town newspaper. His only hope is a futile one, that some day his son's unidentified murderer will be punished. Unable to sleep most nights, he frequently finds himself at a local bar, where one evening he is greeted by a retired missing person's detective who tells him of an old unsolved case. Unwillingly reeled in by the story, George, along with a dying progeria patient he has befriended, face their demons while trying to find an explanation for the disappearance in a handwritten story left by the missing woman - a tale of what appears to have been her own involvement with a man who may be able to "restore the balance" between good and evil.
    • 3/5
      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 facts of random during this novel.
    • 4/5
      A great thriller which whilst reading makes you want to keep your own children within sight at all times..it gives you an insight into the horror of life's cruelties..
    • 1/5
      I found this book extremely boring and confusing!
    • 5/5
      An intelligent mystery thriller about the disappearance of a woman and a reporter's quest for solving this baffling mystery. This novel slowly builds up the suspense and never let you go. Cook's powerful writing has such a mesmerizing power that you can only marvel at the way how words are string together and the various permutations and combinations he throws about the direction in which the story is taken forward.
    • 4/5
      George Gates is a journalist. His son, Teddy, was abducted seven years before and his wife died in childbirth. Sitting in the local bar one evening, he meets Arlo McBride, a retired police who worked in Missing Persons and who helped sweep the area looking for his son, seven years prior. George asks about the case that still haunts him and he immediately recalls the case of Katherine Farr, who disappeared one evening from a local park, never to be seen or heard from again. Cook, true to form, has penned an engrossing mystery. There is story embedded in story. There is the story of Katherine and her disappearance. She wrote a story about it, which he reads to Alice, a twelve year old suffering from progeria, old age at a young age, whose life is dissipating. There is the story of George's own son, Teddy, whose perpetrator was never caught. And there is the story of George, the narrator, at that very moment.Cook's mysteries always have an ethereal, cloudy, mystical sense to them and this is no exception...although, not as strong as, say, The Chatham School Affair, my favorite of his books. The characters are intriguing. The setting is perfect for the story. The mystery is deep. Any book of Cook's is worth reading. You won't regret it.
    • 3/5
      Thomas Cook's writing is compelling; however, I had a difficult time really understanding the plot complexities and the spiritual tie-ins. I'd probably try another book by Cook, but if that one was as difficult to follow, I'd give it up.