Midnight Come Again is the tenth in Dana Stabenow's Kate Shugak series - a series which I mostly like, but occasionally hate, as in the book before this one, and in
Bad Blood, near the end of the series, where Stabenow ended on a ridiculously blatant cliff-hanger, and then took four years to come out with the next book. And an author of her caliber doesn't need to play tricks like that.
Still, I keep reading the series, because most of them are great...
Midnight has dropped to $1.99 in the US and Stabenow's books don't go on sale that often in the US, and are really expensive (especially the later ones) when not on sale, so grab it if you want it. (Note there were some omnibuses of lots of Kate Shugak titles on sale many years ago, so check carefully before you buy...)
Kindle US:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003J4VE68
Kindle US/Smile:
https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B003J4VE68
Kobo US:
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/midnight-come-again
Spoiler:
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Edgar Award winner Dana Stabenow has written nine atmospheric crime novels featuring the very prickly, very human Kate Shugak, but her novels also have a scene-stealing costar: Alaska, unforgiving, breathtaking, dangerous, and beautiful. Stabenow's evocation of this wilderness, combined with her talent for bringing characters to life and creating knuckle-whitening suspense, has made her "one of the strongest voices in crime fiction." (Seattle Times).
Now in Midnight Come Again, all these elements come together for Stabenow's most compelling Kate Shugak novel to date.
Kate, a former investigator for the Anchorage D.A. and now a P.I. for hire, is missing after a winter spent in mourning. Alaska State Trooper Jim Chopin, Kate's best friend, needs her to help him work a new case. He discovers her hiding out in Bering, a small fishing village on Alaska's western coast, living and working under an assumed name-- working hard, as eighteen-hour workdays seem to be her only justification for getting up in the morning. But before they can even discuss Kate's last several months, or what Jim is doing looking for her in Bering, they're up to their eyes in Jim's case, which is suddenly more complicated-- and more dangerous-- than they suspected.
A magnificent crime novel about life in America's last wilderness, the heart-wrenching grief that goes with love, and murder, Midnight Come Again is Dana Stabenow's best novel to date.
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