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 evenings haunted by the image of his son's last day.

Enter Arlo MacBride, a retired missing-persons detective still obsessed with the unsolved case of Katherine Carr. When he gives Gates the story she left behind--a story of a man stalking a woman named Katherine Carr--Gates too is drawn inexorably into a search for the missing author's brief life and uncertain fate. And as he goes deeper, he begins to suspect that her tale holds the key not only to her fate, but to his own.


Author: Thomas H. Cook
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
Published: 04/15/2010
Series: Otto Penzler Books
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.58lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.58w x 0.69d
ISBN: 9780547263342


Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 05/02/2010 pg. 24

About the Author
Cook, Thomas H.: -

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.