Bad Blood: 20 (A Kate Shugak Investigation) - Hardcover

Stabenow, Dana

4.07

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9781781851203: Bad Blood: 20 (A Kate Shugak Investigation)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1781851204 ISBN 13: 9781781851203

Publisher: Head of Zeus, 2013

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KATE SHUGAK is a native Aleut working as a private investigator in Alaska. She's 5 foot 1 inch tall, carries a scar that runs from ear to ear across her throat and owns half-wolf, half-husky dog named Mutt. Resourceful, strong-willed, defiant, Kate is tougher than your average heroine - and she needs to be to survive the worst the Alaskan wilds can throw at her. BAD BLOOD: One hundred years of bad blood between two Alaskan villages come to a boil when the body of a young Kushtaka man is found wedged in a fish wheel. Sergeant Jim Chopin's prime suspect is a Kuskulana man who is already in trouble in both villages for falling in love across the river. But when he disappears, both tribes refuse to speak to Jim - so when there's a second murder which looks suspiciously like payback, Jim calls on Kate Shugak for help. Now Kate must untangle the village tales of tragedy and revenge if she is to find the truth before it's too late...

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Review:

'An antidote to sugary female sleuths' --New York Times

'Sparkles with energy and wit, and packs an unexpected punch' --Publishers Weekly

'Fast and furious adventure' --Kirkus

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Alaska-based P.I. Kate Shugak goes straight the heart of an epic struggle between two tribal villages in this outstanding thriller from New York Times bestselling author

DANA STABENOW

"Alaska's answer to Tony Hillerman."--Rocky Mountain News

The villages of Kushtaka and Kuskulana sit across the river from each other, but Kuskulana's always thrived while Kushtaka is slowly dying out. One hundred years of bad blood between the communities threaten to come to a boil when the body of a young Kushtaka ne'er-do-well is found dead--and questions of love, loyalty, and revenge rise to the surface. Could this one, unexplained death ignite an all-out war? When a second murder that looks suspiciously like payback occurs, the escalating enmity can no longer be ignored. Now it's up to private investigator Kate Shugak, along with Sergeant Jim Chopin, to find the truth about what happened...while a killer remains at large. And is on their trail.

"Entertainment and suspense of a high order."--Publishers Weekly

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