by Dana Stabenow (Author)
Kate Shugak hires onto the staff of a political campaign to work security for a Native woman running for state senator. The candidate has been receiving anonymous threats, and Kate, who went to college with two of the staffers, is to become her shadow, watching the crowds at rallies and fund-raisers. But just as she's getting started, the campaign is rocked by the murder of their staff researcher. In order to track the killer, Kate will have to retrace the researchers steps and delve into the past, in particular the grisly murder of a good-time girl during the Klondike Gold Rush of 1915. Little can she guess the impact a ninety-year-old unsolved case could have on a modern-day psychotic killer...
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Pages: 320
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Saint Martin's Press Inc.
Published: 30 Aug 2002
ISBN 10: 0312982887
ISBN 13: 9780312982881
One of Stabenow's best. --Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Dana Stabenow excels at evoking the bleakness and beauty of the far north. --Seattle Times/Post Intelligencer
If you haven't discovered this splendid North Country series, now is the time...highly entertaining. --USA Today
Dana Stabenow is the New York Times bestselling author of the Kate Shugak mysteries and the Liam Campbell mysteries, as well as a few science fiction and thriller novels. Her book A Cold Day for Murder won an Edgar Award in 1994. Stabenow was born in Anchorage, Alaska and raised on a 75-foot fish tender in the Gulf of Alaska. She has a B.A. in journalism and an M.F.A. in writing from the University of Alaska. She has worked as an egg counter and bookkeeper for a seafood company, and worked on the TransAlaska pipeline before becoming a full-time writer. She continues to live in Alaska.