Concord, Massachusetts
Two weeks of talks, readings, and discussions celebrating the written and the spoken word.
Nathaniel Philbrick
Gish Jen
Andrew Bacevich
Pauline Maier
How You Can Participate
- Attend: Most events are free. All events are open to the public. Events that require a ticket are so indicated and include information about how and where to obtain tickets.
- Donate: The festival is produced by a non-profit foundation and depends greatly on individual support. Tax deductible donations in any amount are encouraged and can be made online.
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Thomas H. Cook
Events: Mystery Night
Book: The Fate of Katherine Carr
Thomas H. Cook is the author of twenty-one novels and two works of nonfiction. He has been nominated for the Edgar Award seven times in five different categories, including Best Novel for Red Leaves, which was also nominated for the British Crime Writers’ Association’s Duncan Lawrie Dagger and won the Barry for Best Novel. The Chatham School Affair won the Edgar for Best Novel.
The Fate of Katherine Carr is the story of George Gates, a former travel writer fascinated by places where people disappeared — until his eight-year-old son vanishes and is found brutally murdered. Enter Arlo McBride, a retired missing-persons detective, who approaches Gates about an unsolved case he’s still obsessed with — the case of Katherine Carr, a woman who vanished twenty years before, leaving nothing behind but a short story about an eerie stranger.
Inexorably, Gates is drawn into the search for the missing woman’s brief life and uncertain fate. As he goes deeper and deeper, he begins to realize that the key to the fate of Katherine Carr is really the key to his own.