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Title: Play With Fire: A Kate Shugak Mystery by Dana Stabenow ISBN: 0-425-15254-5 Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group Pub. Date: 01 May, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.07 (14 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Too Much Talk, Not Enough Action
Comment: Yes, Kate Shugak is normally a cerebral person. She has to be, as much as she chooses to go it alone. And, usually, that makes the character more interesting. In this book, however, it's just BORING! Reading an actual treatise on picking mushrooms might have been more interesting. The reader is certainly clear as to Kate's (the author's?) views on religion and education. Unfortunately, the mystery doesn't just take a backseat -- it was left by the side of the road somewhere. My advice, FWIW, is to read any other book in this or the Liam Campbell series.
Rating: 4
Summary: More Aleut Lore
Comment: The plot in this fifth entry in the wonderful Kate Shugak series is light on mystery, but as with every book so far, provides the most fascinating glimpses into Native Alaskan lore.
Kate has forayed into the remains of a massive forest fire to pick mushrooms, which are springing up everywhere in the lush loam left behind by the charred trees and undergrowth. It's back-breaking work, but highly lucrative, and Kate is joined by her paraplegic Vietnam Vet friend Bobby, and his new lover, a bright-eyed young photographer named Dinah, whose enthusiasm wins Kate over.
It is while Kate and Dinah are hard at work at picking (Kate) and snapping (Dinah) that Kate makes a nauseating and horrific discovery: Under a particularly lush growth of mushrooms lies a badly decomposing body. Kate's subsequent inquiry into the identity of the victim and the manner of his death leads her into a mosquitos' nest (literally) of dangerously unstable religious fanatics. It's a situation that doesn't sit well with Kate as a professional PI, or with Kate as a native Aleut, with religious views quite different than those espoused by the narrow-minded group who are opposing her investigation.
Another fine, fast read in the series; highly recommended, as always.
Rating: 4
Summary: I usually read the reviews, but...
Comment: ...
If you enjoy mysteries that have good characters and stories, with some real opinions about the world that they live in, the Travis McGee of John D. MacDonald type books, you will like this book. A strong character can't just avoid thinking.
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Title: Killing Grounds by Dana Stabenow ISBN: 0425167739 Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group Pub. Date: 01 March, 1999 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: A Cold Day for Murder by Dana Stabenow ISBN: 042513301X Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group Pub. Date: 01 June, 1992 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Hunter's Moon by Dana Stabenow ISBN: 0425172597 Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group Pub. Date: 01 December, 1999 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Midnight Come Again by Dana Stabenow ISBN: 0312978766 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Singing of the Dead by Dana Stabenow ISBN: 0312982887 Publisher: St. Martin's Minotaur Pub. Date: 01 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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