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    Killing Grounds
    Killing Grounds
    Killing Grounds
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    Killing Grounds

    Written by Dana Stabenow

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    It's fishing season, and Kate Shugak is working with Old Sam aboard the fish tender Freya when Cal Meany floats up dead. His reputation as a womanizer, strike breaker, and abusive father ensures that there are several suspects, multiple motives, and quite possibly more than one murderer. While Kate investigates the killing, her aunties mend nets, operate an illegal fish camp, and impart cultural wisdom to Jack and his son Johnny. Ultimately, Kate finds herself in grave danger, as even her aunts join the list of suspects.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateApr 1, 2014
    ISBN9781455838356
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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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    • 4/5
      Alaska through Stabenow -- one more time. The crime didn't occur until about a third of the way through the book. In this one, Kate's back in the fishing fleet, this time a deck hand. The characters are real people and the narrator's voice sounds like real people. The characters are subsistence fisherman -- their options about commercial fishermen are evident and it weaves into the theme of the story. And, in the end, the whodunit revolves around that issue. Kate #8 leads me to Kate #9...can't wait.
    • 4/5
      Alaska Salmon season brings all the boats to her yard. Yeah I went there. Kate is working on Old Sam's boat when a jerkaoaurus named Meanie lives up to his name. He is the Grinch of Alaska, beating all down around him. Kate doesn't accept jerkosaurus types well, and conflict starts right off the bat. Poor Kate she is still recovering from a past trauma, when a whole new one gets her dunked and ditched. Then on top of that she's sexually frustrated, exhausted with family issues, and conflicted in her beliefs. It's not all bad she got to spend time with Chopper Jim :P This was a different Kate, she was mean, and judgemental. She had to spend some time looking at herself and her place in the world. I enjoyed it less than other books in the series, it was slow for the first 50% to me.
    • 4/5
      Alaska native Dana Stabenow writes a good series set in a somewhat fictionalized Alaska. Always interesting, always information packed. The recurring characters are well defined and memorable. Select any of the books in the Kate Shugak mystery series for an interesting, comfortable read.
    • 4/5
      Book groups and book blogging: two great ways to discover authors you might not otherwise have been aware of.My crime reading book group recently introduced me to the joys of Dana Stabenow's 'Kate Shugak investigates' series. Set in Alaska it follows the adventures of a retired (but young) District Attorney investigator with four Aleut aunties, a half-wolf, half-husky companion called Mutt and a tough streak a mile wide.Of course, any crime committed within her local wilderness will eventually result in the authorities - this time in the form of hot Trooper Jim - seeking her advice, even if she hasn't been the one to discover the body (and I get the impression that she often is the one who finds the body).-- What's it about? --Stabbed, beaten, strangled, drowned. Sometimes people get exactly what they deserve.Now there's a strapline to lure you in!Kate first encounters Cal Meany (and oh yes he is) abusing his son by casually backhanding him off a boat into the Pacific Ocean. Twice. Next she spies him engaging in adultery, fishing during a fishing strike and generally being a bastard. So it's safe to say that when he turns up dead, Kate isn't all that sad. Trouble is, nor is anyone else. In fact, fishermen and neighbours alike freely admit that they would shake the hand of Meany's murderer!As motives for murder pile up and Meany's wife seeks the reassurance of knowing he is definitely dead, Kate and Trooper Jim have to establish who wanted him dead enough to stab him post-beating and drowning.The game changes when Meany's daughter is murdered and her lover disappears; can Kate catch the killer - or will they catch her?-- What's it like? --Atmospheric. Slow-moving. Logical.Sometimes a blurb can give away a little too much, and as it takes 100 odd pages for Cal Meany to die, it would be easy to get impatient with Stabenow's story-telling. Except. She captures the life of the local people and their attitudes so completely that the opening chapters are a pleasure to read, even though they focus on the act of fishing, gutting, still-beating hearts and all - and I'm a vegetarian.There's actually not a lot of depth to the main plot here. Once Meany's daughter is murdered and Kate discovers the lover is missing, the pieces fall into place and, like the gentle opening, there's a lengthy closing to the book with the murderer dealt with 26 pages before the end, allowing plenty of time for Shugak to resolve her personal dilemmas and mysteries before the book's end.I have to admit, I quite liked this approach. Sometimes in books this feels like a cheat - in a really tense thriller you'd be waiting for a bonus twist, or in an ongoing series you might expect to be snagged on a hook for the next book - but in Stabenow's vividly realised Alaskan world you're following Kate Shugak's life, and she just happens to have solved a murder. No big deal, and when's the next fishing session anyway?-- Final thoughts --I loved reading about Kate's relationship with her aunts and I like Kate's tough and fiery nature, and her ability to recognise her flaws and make amends. If I was going to be critical I'd focus on her seemingly indestructible nature, but we all know a recurring series heroine cant die, so it would be churlish of me to feel this was a flaw.I also enjoyed reading about America's 'last frontier' and the characters who dwell there. I shall certainly be keeping an eye out for more of Dana Stabenow's books in this series (a few of the others my group read sounded very appealing), though I'm mindful of her admission that continuity can be a bit error-prone, so I may wait a while before reading another.
    • 4/5
      A dysfunctional family disintegrates and Shugak needs to find out who killed whom. AlwayAlaskan atmospheric and a fun read
    • 4/5
      Killing Grounds is about midway in the Kate Shugak series and Stabenow's craft is still evolving. Some of the details about the crime don't ring true, but the prose is solid and I love reading Alaska through her.