From Blood Will Tell, the sixth Kate Shugak novel: It went like that for the next hour, the longest hour of Kate’s life. Alana was pleasant, knowledgeable, and terrifyingly efficient. Kate loathed her. She loathed the first three tops Alana presented for her inspection, too. The first was covered with gold and black sequins. “I…
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From Play With Fire, the fifth Kate Shugak novel: The mammoth’s tusks spiraled up from the display, graceful in spite of their mass, nearly full curls of fossil ivory. “You kind of wonder how they held their heads up under all that weight.” “Make you feel kind of insignificant, don’t they?” Kate said. “That something…
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From A Cold-blooded Business, the fourth Kate Shugak novel: …”Just so I’ve got the sequence of events straight–those two got higher than kites, got kicked off the rig floor and took off in the Suburban?” “Uh-huh.” “And when they ran it off the road, they came back and took the forklift?” “Yup.” “And when they…
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From Dead in the Water, the third Kate Shugak novel: She wondered why she had never noticed before how so many ballads were written on horseback. The bat was coming down steadily now, in its own asymmetrical rhythm, batting out a tattoo of endurance, a measure of survival. When she got home, if she got…
An excerpt from A Fatal Thaw, the second Kate Shugak novel: “The mail plane called the tower in Tok, the tower called me, and I got in the air right away. I’ve been hitting every homestead on the way in.” Kate walked around him and got the shotgun down from the rack over the door.…
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From A Cold Day for Murder, the first Kate Shugak novel: “So you sent in an investigator,” she said. “Yes.” “When? Exactly.” “Two weeks and two days ago, exactly.” “And now he’s missing, too.” “Yes.” “And you don’t think both of them could have stumbled into a snowdrift.” “No. Not when the investigator went in…
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In honor of the June 1st publication of the trade paperback edition of Silk and Song, a post from the Silk and Song blog tour from December 2017. I read The Adventures of Marco Polo and by his own account he loved the ladies. He was all over eastern Asia for twenty years in service to…
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This is one of those happy instances of the law of unintended writing consequences. On page 271 of Though Not Dead, Old Sam tells Pappardelle, “I served in the Aleutians during the war. There wasn’t a lot to do, so every now and then to keep the enlisted out of trouble the brass would get…
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“The dialogue is smart, authentic, and reminiscent of Elmore Leonard.” —Publishers Weekly “Crime fiction doesn’t get much better than this.”–Booklist Kindle iBooks Nook Kobo And for those who prefer their books in print… Click here to order a signed copy. Ordering info for bookstores and libraries: About the audio edition: Tantor Media will be publishing the audio…
