OK, I'll use my last nomination to nominate
A Cold Day for Murder, the first book in one of my all time favourite mystery series, the Kate Shugack series of Alaskan mysteries from Dana Stabenow. This was an Edgar Award winner in 1992 as a paperback original, and a delightful read.
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Originally Posted by Dana Stabenow
It’s December in the Park, and a ranger is missing. It’s no great loss to the rest of the Park rats, they figure he’s stumbled into a snowbank and will re-emerge come breakup, just in time for the ground to thaw and them to bury him. But when the man sent to look for him also disappears, Kate Shugak, ex-investigator for the Anchorage D.A. and Park homesteader, is sent in search of them both.
First in the Kate Shugak series. Yes, this is the one that was lost for two years in my father’s garage and went on to win the Edgar award.
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Originally Posted by Amazon
Somewhere in the hinterlands of Alaska, among the millions of sprawling acres that comprise “The Park,” a young National Park Ranger has gone missing. When the detective sent after him also vanishes, the Anchorage DA’s department must turn to their reluctant former investigator, Kate Shugak. Shugak knows The Park because she’s of The Park, an Aleut who left her home village of Niniltna to pursue education, a career, and justice in an unjust world. Kate’s search for the missing men will take her from self-imposed exile back to a life she’d left behind, and face-to-face with people and problems she'd hoped never to confront again.
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This book is
FREE, and a mere
175 pages! To Jon's concern, it's relatively modern (1992), and to my concern, it's a great read with interesting characters, a venue and culture that are not my own, and perhaps most importantly, I think we'll all
enjoy it.
Available FREE, in ePub or Mobi format, DRM and Geo-restriction free, from the author's own web site,
Stabenow.com
Direct from
Amazon US, also Free and DRM-Free. Whisper-Sync enabled.
Amazon UK (Free and DRM-Free) )Also Whisper-Sync enabled)
From
Kobo (US), also Free and DRM-Free.
From
Audible, as a Whisper-Sync version for $1.99, and excellently read by Marguerite Gavin.
From
Audible UK, for £2.99 as a Whisper-Sync version, same narrator.