Kate Shugak is one hell of a character too. There's a lot of information in there too, about the area, the people and the politics - but it never feels like exposition, perhaps because it's all so fascinating. She knows Alaska - she lives there - and you know immediately that this is someone writing from experience rather than shoehorning in every bit of research. It is bitterly cold and Dana Stabenow can bring it off the page like you've just opened the door to the freezer. It's winter - and they do snow well there. She's thirty years old, five feet tall and has a scar from ear to ear where her throat was cut.įirstly, you'll need to wrap up warm to read this book. There's little choice now but to hand the case to the expert who knows the park and the people: Kate Shugak is Aleut by birth and upbringing and she knows the people - is related to an extraordinary number of them - and she knows the Park. Two weeks ago an investigator was sent in to look for him, but he's not been seen since either. Mark Miller is a park ranger in one of the Alaskan National Parks, but it's six weeks since he's been seen - and there are twenty million acres for him to get lost in. Summary: It might be twenty years since this - the first book in the series - was first published but it's as good now as it was then.
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