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What self-respecting Kate Shugak novel doesn’t start with a rumble at the Roadhouse?

At long last, the 23rd Kate Shugak novel is available for your reading pleasure! An excerpt– And emerged onto a riot, albeit a small one. It appeared to be being adequately handled by a joint Grosdidier–Balluta task force. Their ire was concentrated on four men—Bernie squinted—strangers to him. Hunters, probably, as they were dressed in…

It’s official–Kate is back!

Kindle USKindle UK Today is pub day for the 23rd Kate Shugak novel. I know, I can’t believe it, either. Hope to see you at the Poisoned Pen at 7pm tonight. If you can’t make it in person the event will be broadcast on the PP’s YouTube channel, on Facebook Live, and as a podcast on Podbean. Order…

Read more It’s official–Kate is back!

Letty and the Peace-Makers is the name of my next band.

Rerunning my Goodreads review of John Sandford’s Escape Clause here… Any book that begins with Virgil Flowers skinny dipping in a swimming hole works for me. Add in two catnapped Amur tigers, immigrant workers being exploited in a pickle factory, a homicidal animal rights activist, Frankie the farmer girlfriend who is, reluctantly I say it,…

from the 22nd Kate Shugak novel

Monday, New Year’s Eve Canyon Hot Springs “Need a refill?” “Well, sure. But who’s going to go get it?” A good question. The wind was howling, the snow was swirling, and on New Year’s Eve it was already as dark as it got in Alaska to begin with. Which made cuddling with your honey in…

Aaand the winnahs are…

For the Object for the 22rd Kate Shugak novel, the winners are (drum roll, please)… Third Place goes to Marla for the thumb drive. I hadn’t even thought of the thumb drive, but of course she’s right, and who couldn’t love that last line? Second place goes to Laura Spafford, for the plane. I love…

from the 21st Kate Shugak novel

July 19ththe Park “You know where she is,” Jim said. It wasn’t a question. “You don’t?” Bobby said. It wasn’t an answer. They glared at each other, both big men, one black, one blond, one in a wheelchair, one in the blue and gold of the Alaska state trooper, both of them mightily pissed off.…

Aaand the contest begins!

To recap from the February Roadhouse Report: A fan contest is announced! Alert readers will have noticed that I’m re-running “The History of Kate Shugak in 22 Objects” series here on stabenow.com. I’ve even managed to keep all the original comments. Some are pretty funny and all of them are fun. Scroll down to read them…

from the 20th Kate Shugak novel

Tuesday, July 10th Kushtaka Tyler Mack was an eighteen-year old stick of post-adolescent dynamite just waiting for the right match. He was smart in all the wrong ways, using his intelligence chiefly to conspire with Boris Balluta, his best friend and coconspirator since childhood, on ways and means to avoid manual labor. Of medium height,…

The History of Kate Shugak in 22 Objects – 21

Warning: Spoilers spoken here. And a contest! With prizes!* So I put it to the Danamaniacs–what should be the object from the twenty-first Kate Shugak novel? Imma just cut-and-paste the winning entry here: Thank you, Dagna! Because what could be more apropos than a compass of any kind as a symbol for Less Than…

The History of Kate Shugak in 22 Objects – 20

Warning: Spoilers spoken here.And a contest! With prizes!* Upon returning home from New York City in 1994, clutching A Cold Day for Murder‘s Edgar in a sweaty fist, almost the very first thing to appear in my mailbox was a letter from Tony Hillerman, requesting a short story for the collection he was editing, The…

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