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Title: The Singing of the Dead (A Kate Shugak Novel) by Dana Stabenow ISBN: 0-312-98288-7 Publisher: St. Martin's Minotaur Pub. Date: 19 May, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.08 (13 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Shugak is Back
Comment: This is the 11th outing for Kate Shugak, former Anchorage police officer and now private investigator in the Park in the Alaskan bush. The series took an unexpected turn in book 9, and with the last two entries, author Dana Stabenow has kept us on edge wondering if Shugak would survive.
In this book, Shugak returns to her homestead in the Park for the first time in months. She is promptly offered a job as a political candidate's protection after the candidate, a Native Alaskan, begins receiving threatening letters. Shugak, like most police officers, believes that the writer of the letters will go no further than the written word. But when one of the candidate's staff turns up dead, Shugak is forced to reevaluate her position. From that point, the book goes into high gear!
The characters, especially the ones we've grown to know over the years, are well-drawn and continue to grow and change. Stabenow gives us some history of Alaska, this time involving a prostitute of the Klondike era. She keeps you guessing about who did the foul deed although she is such a skillful writer that you find yourself hoping it's one of the campaign staff whom you come to love to hate. Stabenow's writing remains outstanding so much so that you can feel autumn slipping away with each turn of the page - in the back of your head you'll begin to wonder where you can lay your hands on a sweater - even if you're in 90 degree weather.
Rating: 4
Summary: Good addition to the series
Comment: In the 11th. book of the Kate Shugak series, Dana Stabenow weaves 2 parallel stories into an interesting whole. The story with the current setting tells of Kate's new job as a security guard for Anne Gordaoff, a candidate for state senator from Kate's district. During the course of the campaign, the candidate's future son-in-law is murdered. This brings a new urgency to Kate's job and causes her to align with sometime friend and lover Jim Chopin to solve the case. When another body appears, the campaign workers' concerns deepen. The parallel story is told at the turn of the 20th. century with its central character being a "good time girl" during the Gold Rush days. She earns her living in the only way she knows how and supports her son through hardships and associations with abusive men. Her death has never been solved, but Kate connects it to her current case and discovers both killers at once. This is a good read and gives Stabenow's usual insider's view on Alaska.
Rating: 2
Summary: Can't fit a square peg in a round hole
Comment: THE SINGING OF THE DEAD seems to be about two different stories: The first involves Kate Shugak's new job as "protection" for Anne Gordaoff's political campaign; the second flashes back to the travails of a "good-time girl" during the gold rush days in Alaska. The second is much more compelling than the first.
Someone has been sending Gordaoff threatening letters and Shugak is hired to protect her. She needs the money to help provide for her dead lover's son, whose mother wants him back, apparently just to spite Shugak. And that's what's wrong with this book. Everybody has it in for Kate Shugak. It's like President Nixon said about Reagan, "She's just not a pleasant person to be around." Shugak also locks horns with Gordaoff's campaign manager, Darlene Shelikof, with whom she attended The University of Alaska, Fairbanks. She doesn't get along with men any better, even those she's attracted to, like state cop Jim Chopin whom she thinks is condescending.
After two members of Gordaoff's staff are murdered, the murderer comes looking for Shugak. It's especially galling for Shugak when Chopin saves her. I found the resolution to be about as believable as the Kennedy conspiracies. Stabenow can't get the two stories to jibe and so she pounds a square peg into a round hole. I also kept paging ahead to see where the good-time girl story continued.
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Title: Midnight Come Again (A Kate Shugak Novel) by Dana Stabenow ISBN: 0312978766 Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks Pub. Date: 15 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: A Fine and Bitter Snow (A Kate Shugak Novel) by Dana Stabenow ISBN: 0312989474 Publisher: St. Martin's Minotaur Pub. Date: 13 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Killing Grounds (Kate Shugak Mysteries (Paperback)) by Dana Stabenow ISBN: 0425167739 Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group Pub. Date: 01 March, 1999 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Hunter's Moon (Prime Crime Mysteries) by Dana Stabenow ISBN: 0425172597 Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group Pub. Date: 01 December, 1999 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Breakup (Kate Shugak Mysteries (Paperback)) by Dana Stabenow ISBN: 0425162613 Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group Pub. Date: 01 April, 1998 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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