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…
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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 Silk and Song in trade paperback, here’s a post from the Silk and Song blog tour in January. Between Two Continents with Dana Stabenow From James Joyce’s Dublin to Bram Stoker’s Transylvania, readers everywhere have traveled to regions far and wide. All from the comforts of their…
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…
