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Title	:	A Cold Day For Murder (Kate Shugak #1)
Author	:	Dana Stabenow
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 208 pages
Published	:	June 1st 1992 by Berkley
Categories	:	Mystery. Fiction. Crime. Thriller. Mystery Thriller

A Cold Day For Murder (Kate Shugak #1) Paperback | Pages: 208 pages

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Eighteen months ago, Aleut Kate Shugak quit her job investigating sex crimes for the Anchorage DA's office and retreated to her father's homestead in a national park in the interior of Alaska. But the world has a way of beating a path to her door, however remote. In the middle of one of the bitterest Decembers in recent memory ex-boss - and ex-lover - Jack Morgan shows up with an FBI agent in tow. A Park ranger with powerful relatives is missing, and now the investigator Jack sent in to look for him is missing, too. Reluctantly, Kate, along with Mutt, her half-wolf, half-husky sidekick, leaves her wilderness refuge to follow a frozen trail through the Park, twenty thousand square miles of mountain and tundra sparsely populated with hunters, fishermen, trappers, mushers, pilots and homesteaders. Her formidable grandmother and Native chief, Ekaterina Shugak, is - for reasons of her own - against Kate's investigation; her cousin, Martin, may be Kate's prime suspect; and the local trooper, Jim Chopin, is more interested in Kate than in her investigation. In the end, the sanctuary she sought after five and a half years in the urban jungles may prove more lethal than anything she left behind in the city streets of Anchorage.

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Original Title:	A Cold Day For Murder
ISBN:	042513301X (ISBN13: 9780425133019)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Kate Shugak #1
Characters:	Jack Morgan, Kate Shugak, Jim Chopin
Literary Awards:	Edgar Award for Best Paperback Original (1993)

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Marguerite Gavin gives this book a fantastic narration. She doesn't attempt to replicate the way Dana Stabenow probably hears Kate Shugak's ruined voice in her head, doesn't attempt to constantly "do" ruined, for which I was grateful for the five and a half hours of the book. I'm sure it's a good read, but it's a great listen. This takes place in a part of the world I'm just not that familiar with, that weird and wonderful great state of Alaska. I'll admit it I think my only real "experience"

2.5 stars Most of the stars for this go to the setting, the brutal beauty of the Alaskan wilds. And for Kate Shugak's half wolf pet, Mutt. The author does well to set up the close knit community where everyone knows everyone else's business and feels like they have the right to get all up in it. It factors well into the plot, where personal interests clash enough for two people to end up dead. But the characters themselves were pretty light, with the author trying to be too quirky in their

A Cold Day for Murder is the first Kate Shugak mystery by Dana Stabenow. Kate was the lead investigator for the Anchorage ADA, Jack Morgan. Something happened on one of her cases which lead her to quit and move back nearer home in The Park. She lives alone with her dog (wolf) Mutt. Kate is an Aleut.Jack and an FBI agent show up to ask her help in finding a missing Ranger and the current ADA investigator. The Ranger disappeared 6 weeks ago and his father is a US Senator who has pressured the FBI

A Cold Day for Murder3 StarsAfter a Park Ranger and the detective sent in to find him both disappear somewhere in the vast and freezing wilderness of Alaska, the Anchorage DAs office requests the aid of former investigator Kate Shugak. A member of the Aleut tribe, Kate has returned home to nurse wounds both physical and psychological incurred while on the job, and is reluctant to leave her self-imposed exile to search for the missing men. However, once she begins asking questions and the answers

This is the first of Dana Stabenow's novels that I've read, and I think the first she wrote. I almost stopped about half-way through but I'm glad I didn't. After a long period of introducing characters and the Alaska locale, with a plot going nowhere, the pace did pick up and the story became interesting. Not fantastic, but interesting. There is some good writing with relaxed and amusing observations, but there are also segments where the writing just "tries too hard," and other segments where

3.8 starsWonderful first book in a series, I am hooked. Alaskan setting, tough Alaskan woman with scars, fab dog/wolf sidekick, and snarky side characters all wrapped around a decent story ! Ding ding winner ! The cast in this story are offbeat, and maybe a touch crazy, which makes them even more enjoyable to get to know. I have a favorite snarky character Bobby, you have to meet this guy. I want him to be my neighbor, we could get in trouble. :D If you are looking for a murder mystery series to

I should have guessed who the criminal was. That's because in the first book of a long running series, it is always a near or dear who commits the crime.Dana Stabenow has certainly captivated my attention. I've never read so much descriptiveness in a book under 300 pages. I'm sure I'll follow a few of the sequels and see if the quality really holds up.I recommend this book. Its flashbacks, necessary an evil as they are, do not bog down the book, and this setting reminds me of the simple but