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    A Grave Denied

    By Dana Stabenow

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    KATE SHUGAK is a native Aleut working as a private investigator in Alaska. She's 5 foot 1 inch tall, carries a scar that runs from ear to ear across her throat and owns half-wolf, half-husky dog named Mutt. Resourceful, strong-willed, defiant, Kate is tougher than your average heroine – and she needs to be to survive the worst the Alaskan wilds can throw at her.

    A GRAVE DENIED. When Len Dreyer's body is discovered, frozen solid, in an ice cave beneath a remote glacier with a hole from a shotgun blast in his chest, no one had even noticed that he had been missing for months. Alaska State Trooper Jim Chopin asks Kate to help him dig into Dreyer's background, in the hope of finding some motive for his murder. She takes the case, mindful of the need for gainful employment as she copes with Johnny, the teenage boy in her care and a constant reminder of his father, her dead lover. Little does she imagine that by trying to provide for him she just might be putting him in the path of danger.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHead of Zeus
    Release dateOct 10, 2012
    ISBN9781781850367
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    Dana Stabenow

    Dana Stabenow was born in Anchorage, Alaska and raised on a 75-foot fishing tender. She knew there was a warmer, drier job out there somewhere and found it in writing. Her first book in the bestselling Kate Shugak series, A Cold Day for Murder, received an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America. Follow Dana at stabenow.com

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    • 3/5
      Another fine story in the Kate Shugak series. A body is found floating in glacial meltwater and a few more occur before Kate figures it out. The book has all the familiar characters, plus a few more. Chopper Jim's emotional outburst broke the cast I had in mind for him: intractable, inscrutable, solid cop...not so much. If I could choose a theme, it would be: "Alaskan winters can drive you nuts"...another fine portayal of Alaska's culture that us Outsiders just don't get.
    • 4/5
      This was my first Kate Shugak mystery and of course since I was reading smack dab in the middle of the series, I felt completely left out about what's gone on with the characters! But it's definately a series I will come back to in the future.
    • 5/5
      When Johnny starts his assigned summer journal, meant to be a simple chronicle of the wildlife he sees around the Park, little does he know that his life is about to be even more complicated than it's already been (and for a fourteen-year-old, he's had some major complications). A frozen stiff - pardon the pun - discovered in a pool of meltwater under a rapidly receding glacier would have been disturbing enough, but the hole blasted through the corpse's chest leaves little room for doubt - it was murder. Called in to investigate by Chopper Jim, Kate quickly learns that the victim had more than a few things to hide. Things heat up quickly after that as sparks fly between Jim & Kate. Arson, family relations of the unpleasant variety, and plenty of Mutt lappings round out the pages.There are a few loose ends that don't get tied up, and I figured out who-dun-it (even if why was a surprise) fairly early on. Perhaps not Stabenow's most riveting work, but I enjoyed the by-play between Jim & Kate anyway.
    • 3/5
      I like this series. I have not read it in order. Maybe a little sentimental at the end of this one.