Tag: A Night Too Dark

from the 17th Kate Shugak novel

One Memorial Day Father Smith was the proud proprietor of a forty-acre homestead in the Park, a wife and seventeen children, all of whom still lived at home.   Not that he would ever have admitted it, even to himself, this registered as nothing compared to the fact that he was the sole owner of…

Read more from the 17th Kate Shugak novel

The bullet penetrated eye and occipital bone and ricocheted around the inside of the skull.

From A Night Too Dark, the seventeenth Kate Shugak novel: He was running flat out, straight at them, squealing and growling a challenge, turf kicked up behind him by those long, sharp, deadly claws.  Distantly, as if it were happening to someone else, she could feel his weight hitting the ground, a steady, rhythmic vibration…

Read more The bullet penetrated eye and occipital bone and ricocheted around the inside of the skull.