Stabenow's ( A Cold Day for Murder ) writing has matured in her second effort featuring native Alaskan sleuth Kate Shugak. The Alaskan terrain and native culture add texture--the narrative includes both a potlatch celebration and an avalanche. Spring brings not only a thaw to the Alaskan wilderness, but a mass murderer. Roger McAniff cracks along with the ice on the first day of spring and goes on a killing spree, murdering nine and wounding two others. Or so it seems until ballistics tests prove that one of the victims, Lisa Getty, was killed by a different rifle. Shugak's investigation reconstructs Getty's life, uncovering her promiscuity, drug-dealing and endangered species-poaching, but all those leads prove false. The investigation reintroduces readers to some of the most intriguing characters from Shugak's previous mystery, including wheelchair-bound black veteran Bobby Clark and Shugak's manipulative grandmother, Ekaterina. Meanwhile, the tension level rises when a park ranger is killed and Shugak herself is wounded by a sniper's rifle, and Stabenow succuessfully sustains the tension until the killer is found.
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When a man goes berserk on the first day of spring and kills nine people, Kate Shugak, once the star of the Anchorage D.A.'s office, begins an investigation.

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5.0�toiles sur 5 A Pleasing Continuation to the Series, F�v 28 2004

Par	W. Carol "dog lover" - Voir tous mes commentaires

I found "A Fatal Thaw," the second in the Kate Shugak series set in the Alaskan wilderness, much easier to read and follow than the first, and I zipped through it with great interest.

Stabenow is herself an Alaskan, and she makes you feel the very essence of the place, in all its rough and ready wildness. I felt I was there in the first spring thaw with Kate and her wonderful half-wolf dog (a bona fide character in her own right) as they stretch their winter-weary limbs. Kate has spring fever, and her very female dog, Mutt, is mesmerized by a giant and gorgeous he-wolf who can't seem to keep away from Kate's cabin.

This serenity is shattered very quickly, however, by the doings of a crazy-mad serial killer who, in one short span of a few hours, goes on a murder spree so deadly and so accurate that almost nobody in the tight-knit communty is spared outrage, shock or unbearable grief. After the dust settles, however, the real shocker sets in: One of the dead was not shot with the same gun. Somebody has used a crazy man's murder spree to cover up a real and nasty additional killing--and it's up to Kate to find out who.

I found the mystery less than the story telling, which kept my interest all the way through. This is a good, solid series, one that I am reading from the beginning, and I see no reason at all not to move on quickly and with pleasurable anticipation to the next!

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2.0�toiles sur 5 Unbelieveable-Literally, Janv. 11 2001

Par	Kathleen C. Strong (Belmont, OH United States) - Voir tous mes commentaires

Sorry, I wanted to like this book because I have liked all her others, but this was a challenge to get through for me and I was glad when I finished it. I knew who did it before I had even read a third of the book. I found Kate to be a very mean spirited one-woman superwoman. Kate had to do everything in this book by herself, did not want the help from the capable agencies in place who would normally take care of these matters, and was, indeed, insulting to any one of them who tried to help her. She broke the law by selling murder evidence she found, had no qualms of conscience about doing that, even felt she deserved the money from it. Her treatment of the Korean mountain climbers left me disgusted. What a thoroughly dislikeable character.

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4.0�toiles sur 5 An Alaskan Mystery, Oct. 12 1998

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Mystery and a peek into Alaskan lifestyle combine to make for good reading. A good plot and finely drawn characters are a plus. Made me want more of Ms. Stabenow's stories.

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