Killing Grounds (A Kate Shugak Investigation) - Softcover

Dana Stabenow

Softcover

ISBN 10: 190880064X ISBN 13: 9781908800640

Publisher: Head of Zeus, 2013

Synopsis

All pages clean and intact, strong binding. No discernible marks throughout the book. Outside covers show minor evidence of wear. Book has been maintained well, like new condition. Softcover. Ships expeditiously.

About this title

Review:

Like Nevada Barr, Dana Stabenow writes mysteries so firmly rooted in the natural world that their sense of place becomes a vital part of the plot. In this book about Native Alaskan crime solver Kate Shugak, the ocean and the men who fish it for salmon are described in such vivid detail that you'll never look at a salmon steak the same way again. When a particularly nasty fisherman is murdered, there's no end of suspects--including members of Kate's own family. The story also sports a richly ironic undertone of political incorrectness, as Kate muses about the forest rangers, "who wanted to annex every square foot of land they saw and keep it pristine and inviolate, unsullied by human hand. They failed to recall that the indigenous peoples who came across the Bering land bridge during the last Ice Age had their hands all over anything that had the remotest possibility of nutritional value, and were every bit as much of the landscape and the wheel of life as the fish and the birds and the mammals." Previous Shugak sorties in paperback include Breakup, Blood Will Tell, Play with Fire, and A Cold-Blooded Business.

About the Author:

In 1991 Dana Stabenow, born in Alaska and raised on a 75-foot fishing trawler, was offered a three-book deal for the first of her Kate Shugak mysteries. In 1992, the first in the series, A Cold Day for Murder, received an Edgar Award.

About this edition

• Publisher: Head of Zeus
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 190880064X
• ISBN 13: 9781908800640
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 274