At the same time the Grosdidier brothers were settling on a command structure at home, they were willing, nay, eager to assert their independence abroad. There were a few years when Park rats had only to see the Grosdidier brothers coming in one door to exit immediately out of any available other. Their quadranarily sequential…
“Windsor Canadian. The bootlegger’s friend. Retail price in Anchorage, seven-fifty a bottle. Retail price in a dry village, a hundred bucks easy.” “Yeah.” The bottle dropped to the table, next to the gun. —“Nooses Give,” a Kate Shugak short story Only in e. On Amazon.com, Amazon.uk, Amazon.au, iTunes, Barnes & Noble, and Kobo.
[From the stabenow.com vaults, 2011] I’ve had some great fan mail, like the email a woman wrote to say that Breakup made her blow Sprite out of her nose in an airport lounge. But this has got to be my all-time favorite. Jason was doing a book report on Breakup and wrote to ask me…
As alert (and subscribed) readers noticed in Monday’s Roadhouse Report, I offered four copies of the French edition of Though Not Dead (the 18th Kate Shugak novel and my favorite so far) to the first four librarians who wrote in. And the winnahs are— Angela Hughes Franklin Square Public Library Franklin Square, New York Susan…
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Questions from Robert Hahn in March 2012 for a Publisher’s Weekly article on regional mysteries. Q: Kate Shugak began as an investigator in Anchorage but you’ve really allowed her to cover the whole state in a manner unlike that of any other Alaskan crime fiction writer. How do you manage to encompass such a vast…
So I was on the phone yesterday with Shannon Parks, whom you know as Marguerite Gavin, the narrator of my audio books. She always calls when she’s proofing the audio of the most recent book. Which would be She told me that when she came upstairs from her studio after she finished recording the book,…
[Luncheon speech for the Poisoned Pen Conference, July 13, 2012] Sometimes research is easy. When I lived in Anchorage my house was right under the traffic pattern to the seaplane base of Lake Hood. One day my father was helping me with something in my back yard and a Cessna 206 was taking off with…
Monday, February 13, Clues Unlimited, Tucson (520) 326-8533 Tuesday, February 14, Murder by the Book, Houston (713) 524-8597 Wednesday, February 15, Tattered Cover, Denver 303-470-7050 Thursday, February 16, Powell’s, Portland 503-228-4651 Saturday, February 18, Elliott Bay Book Company, Seattle (800) 962-5311 Monday, February 20, Fireside Books, Palmer (907) 745-2665
Versions of this story have appeared on various blogs, in the MWA Edgar Awards program guide, and I’ve used it as a speech for library fund-raisers. My first memory is literally of my mother’s forefinger running beneath the words “Once upon a time, in a faraway land, lived a beautiful princess named Snow White. She…
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From the February 4th event, sponsored by the Friends of the Juneau Public Libraries.