Book description
George Gates is a former travel writer. He used to specialize in
writing about places where people disappeared, sometimes individuals,
sometimes whole societies. Now, since the murder of his eight-year-old
son, Gates has written gentler stories for the town paper about flower
festivals and local celebrities. Enter Arlo MacBride, a retired
missing-persons detective who, knowing Gates past, mentions the case of
Katherine Carr, a woman who vanished twenty years before, leaving
nothing behind but a few poems and a strange little story. It is this
story that spurs Gates to inquire into its missing author s brief life
and tragic fate, an exploration that leads him to make surprising
discoveries about his own life. George Gates is a former travel
writer. He used to specialize in writing about places where people
disappeared, sometimes individuals, sometimes whole societies. Now,
since the murder of his eight-year-old son, Gates has written gentler
stories for the town paper about flower festivals and local celebrities.
Enter Arlo MacBride, a retired missing-persons detective who, knowing
Gates past, mentions the case of Katherine Carr, a woman who vanished
twenty years before, leaving nothing behind but a few poems and a
strange little story. It is this story that spurs Gates to inquire into
its missing author s brief life and tragic fate, an exploration that
leads him to make surprising discoveries about his own life.
