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Private Detective Kate Shugak, a former investigator with the district attorney's office, lives on an isolated homestead in Alaska near Denali National Park. Local resident, Roger McAniff, has gone on a rampage, killing nine people before Kate can stop him. Ballistics tests prove Roger killed eight of the dead, but Lisa Getty was killed by someone else. Kate starts investigating who in Lisa's life might be motivated to kill her and discovers Lisa's secret life of drug dealing, promiscuity, and e
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Right From The Get Go.
A Fatal Thaw, gets you in right from page one. The reader becomes a witness to the murders from the killer's point of view, seeing as the victims are killed all in a gory sequence, until his capture by Kate and Mutt, (her half wolf) and it all happens by the end of chapter one. All neatly wrapped up, right? Not by a long shot. Then comes the twist. The twist that gets you really sucked in. ...more
A Fatal Thaw, gets you in right from page one. The reader becomes a witness to the murders from the killer's point of view, seeing as the victims are killed all in a gory sequence, until his capture by Kate and Mutt, (her half wolf) and it all happens by the end of chapter one. All neatly wrapped up, right? Not by a long shot. Then comes the twist. The twist that gets you really sucked in. ...more
The first day of spring in Alaska shows signs of thawing at Kate Shugak's cabin. But for Roger McAniff it is the beginning of his killing spree which brings him to Kate's backyard. But stopping a killer is not the end of the story. One victim was killed by a different rifle and Kate is asked to track down this killer. Kate is a no-nonsense methodical and intuitive half Aleut private investigator who knows all the people who live in the Alaskan National Park. I enjoy learning about the culture of
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I wasn't really keen on the first book of the series, but this one was better. I'm not sure if that is because my expectations were low, or because (view spoiler) I'm not still sure about the human characters of this series, but I do like Mutt.
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May 22, 2024
Maggie Shanley
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