A Fatal Thaw
Written by Dana Stabenow
Narrated by Marguerite Gavin
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About this audiobook
Spring has arrived in The Park. The snow is melting, the birds are singing, the wolves are frolicking... and somewhere, in a lonely cabin along the road to Niniltna, a man's sanity is breaking. Soon, nine people will be dead, seemingly the victims of a random act of violence—until a routine ballistics test reveals that one of the murders was anything but random. Once again the Anchorage DA's department must turn to their former investigator, Kate Shugak, to uncover a calculating killer, hiding in plain sight.
The second novel in Stabenow's Edgar Award-winning series of Alaskan mysteries, A Fatal Thaw vividly captures life in America's last frontier, filled with unique hardships, quirks and rewards.
Dana Stabenow
Dana Stabenow was born in Anchorage, Alaska and raised on a 75-foot fishing tender. She knew there was a warmer, drier job out there somewhere and found it in writing. Her first book in the bestselling Kate Shugak series, A Cold Day for Murder, received an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America. Follow Dana at stabenow.com
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Reviews for A Fatal Thaw
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This book was a very interesting murder mystery with a mix of Alaskan history. It was a fast, easy read and very entertaining. Love Kate's independent nature and the relationship she has with her dog. Looking forward to reading the next book in the series.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Kate Shugak was an investigator for the Anchorage prosecutor’s office until while attempting to stop a child molester, her throat is cut from ear to ear. When her throat is healed, with her voice ruined, she retires back to the National Park to her homestead.On the first spring morning she wakes to 30 degrees and begins her break-out chores. A killer 25 miles north and west to her begins a murders spree. Kate will bring him down, the police will take him to Anchorage for trial, BUT one victim of his rampage was killed by a different rifle! Kate begins to investigate …This novel, though part of a series, can be read as a standalone novel as Ms. Stabenow has provided plenty of flesh to her characters and a backdrop of Alaskan wilderness and native ceremonies. Though this is a mystery, you will not be following clues to solve, instead you will have an ear to the investigation.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Kate Shugak has had months of relative peace, unbothered by the demands of her former profession. That's broken by not jus t a murder in the park, but a massacre one bright, sunny, Alaska-spring morning. Kate is the last person he comes after, because she's warned of the shootings and the fact that the man is headed her way. She and her wolf cross, Mutt, manage to take him down alive.
There are nine dead. But did the man kill all nine, or only eight? One of the dead, a woman, was killed by a bullet from a different gun. Same type, same caliber, but not the same gun.
Two killers, with the same type of gun, the same sunny morning?
The woman killed by the second gun, unfortunately, had a host of people who might have wanted her dead, and they would all be local.
Kate gets the thankless task of finding, or not finding, this second killer.
This is, once again, a story of character and intricate social ties, with the questions of who and why the keys that open those questions. Kate and her friends, family, and colleagues are complicated people, filled with virtues and flaws, and so are their neighbors and friends.
A good read or listen. Recommended.
I bought this audiobook. - Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/53.5 Kate is on tough Alaskan Woman. In this second book she faces a crazy man, an unknown murderer, a glacier and......very near death with her dear companion Mutt 1/2 husky 1/2 wolf.I really enjoy these quick tales of murder adventure and extreme living. The characters are all quirky and just as you'd expect in the wilds.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This is the second in the Kate Shugak series and another fun read. Kate investigates a murder of opportunity. Good--Stabenow’s descriptions of a modern potlatch and spring in the Arctic. Marguerite Gavin, again, does a great job on the narration. Stabenow exquisitely describes the mountains in this tale--I wonder why she just doesn't use the real names? This second book in the series had a stronger plot than the first. Where's #3?
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A fun quick read is this early Shugak Alaskan outback mystery. Who used the other rifle to kill one of the perceived victims of a deranged serial killer? Lots of local color as spring arrives and a potlatch is staged for the victims. Kate is almost a victim before she identifies the killer.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5There's a mass murder in the Alaskan park area where Kate Shugak lives. She, with the help of Mutt, captures the suspect. When ballistics gets back the report, it is discovered that one of the shots that killed was fired from a different rifle. Kate helps investigate. She knows who the person who did it was almost from the beginning and most readers will also suspect that person from the beginning. The author, however, does a good job in describing the area. Not exactly the best in the series. It is a short and quick read. I enjoyed the earlier installment entitled A Cold Day so I'll probably give the next one a chance based on the strength of the first.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Second in the Kate Shugak series.Spring has come to the Park and with it, a mad killer who leaves 10 bodies behind until brought down by Kate and her half wolf, half husky dog, Mutt. Among the bodies, however, is that of a beautiful, promiscuous young woman who, it unfolds, was shot by a different rifle from the one used by the mass killer. Kate is assigned the job of tracking down and identifying this second murderer.A big step upward in quality of writing in this 2nd book in the series. Especially fine are Stabenow’s descriptions of a modern potlatch and the manner in which spring comes to the Arctic. Her characters are still more or less one-dimensional, but the situations and locales are absorbing and really carry the book along. Stabenow endows Kate with a fine sense of ironic humor; Kate is one character who, while not exactly developing, continues to interest.Highly recommended.