Kate Shugak – Page 5 – Dana Stabenow

He believed that secret operatives working on behalf of the U.N. had put directions in invisible ink on the backs of all government highway signs, readable only by U.N. troops wearing special government-issue goggles.

Excerpt from Hunter’s Moon, the ninth Kate Shugak novel: The nearest neighbor to the gold mine was a man named Crazy Emmett who lived in a cabin on a tiny lake five miles away. Crazy Emmett, an ex-history teacher from West High School in Anchorage, had retired at his earliest possible date of eligibility and…

There, in a sentence, the 60’s explained.

Very funny, and if you’re looking for it (and even if you aren’t) really smart. Funny? The Willoughby brothers and their poor father, among many, many anecdotes. Smart? Bryson ends his experience of the Cuban missile crisis with “I haven’t trusted grown-ups for a single moment since.” There, in a sentence, the 60’s explained. …

“You get her hand out from under the covers, I’ll fill the pan with water.”

From Killing Grounds, the eighth Kate Shugak novel: “She was mean to Mom.” “I know, but–“ “It’ll only make her wet the bed, Laverne, don’t be such a baby. You get her hand out from under the covers, I’ll fill the pan with water.” “Lauren! Caitlin! I’ve told you before, do not be drawn to…

He writes demurely of the balloon ascension of a Mr. Biggin and a Mrs. Sage, which may or may not have given birth to the Mile High Club.

(Click through the image to read the review in full.) Read more of my Goodreads reviews here. The 22nd Kate Shugak novel, coming January 9, 2020. Click here to pre-order a signed copy of the hardcover edition.

…a very minor courtier in an exceptionally regal retinue.

From Breakup, the seventh Kate Shugak novel: The Roadhouse door opened abruptly into the conversation, almost catching Mrs. Baker on the nose and smacking into Kate’s reflexively upraised hand. A man somersaulted out of the building to roll down the steps and fetch up flat on his back in a puddle of muddy slush. There…

No matter how minute the detail (three leaky tubes of adhesive) it always goes somewhere (the disabling of an enemy ship and the complete rout of an entire barbarian horde).

Read more of my Goodreads reviews here. The 22nd Kate Shugak novel, coming January 9, 2020. Click here to pre-order a signed copy of the hardcover edition.

“Ruffles? Who do I look like, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm?”

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…

Well worth reading, if only to watch over his shoulder as he builds his cabin from the ground up, without a power tool in sight.

“You kind of wonder how they held their heads up under all that weight.”

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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He believed that secret operatives working on behalf of the U.N. had put directions in invisible ink on the backs of all government highway signs, readable only by U.N. troops wearing special government-issue goggles.

There, in a sentence, the 60’s explained.

“You get her hand out from under the covers, I’ll fill the pan with water.”

He writes demurely of the balloon ascension of a Mr. Biggin and a Mrs. Sage, which may or may not have given birth to the Mile High Club.

…a very minor courtier in an exceptionally regal retinue.

No matter how minute the detail (three leaky tubes of adhesive) it always goes somewhere (the disabling of an enemy ship and the complete rout of an entire barbarian horde).

“Ruffles? Who do I look like, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm?”

Well worth reading, if only to watch over his shoulder as he builds his cabin from the ground up, without a power tool in sight.

“You kind of wonder how they held their heads up under all that weight.”

A couple of twenty-something Brits go walkabout in Darien on the border between Panama and Columbia and get kidnapped by guerrillas for ransom.

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