Katherine, the slightly disturbing twenty-three-year-old narrator of A Carnivore's Inquiry, journeys from literary New York to rural Maine and Mexico City, trailed everywhere she goes, by a string of murders. As the ritualistic killings begin to pile up, Katherine comforts and inspires herself by meditating on cannibalism in literature, art and history. And as the story races towards a hair-raising conclusion, Katherine's own connection with the macabre and her peculiar taste for flesh are finally revealed.