Midnight Come Again

De: Dana Stabenow

Narrado por: Marguerite Gavin

Book 10: A Kate Shugak Novel

Edgar Award winner Dana Stabenow has written numerous atmospheric crime novels featuring the very prickly, very human Kate Shugak, but her novels also have a scene-stealing costar: Alaska, unforgiving, breathtaking, dangerous, and beautiful. Stabenow's evocation of this wilderness, combined with her talent for bringing characters to life and creating knuckle-whitening suspense, has made her "one of the strongest voices in crime fiction." (Seattle Times).

Now in Midnight Come Again, all these elements come together for Stabenow's most compelling Kate Shugak novel to date.

Kate, a former investigator for the Anchorage D.A. and now a P.I. for hire, is missing after a winter spent in mourning. Alaska State Trooper Jim Chopin, Kate's best friend, needs her to help him work a new case. He discovers her hiding out in Bering, a small fishing village on Alaska's western coast, living and working under an assumed name-- working hard, as eighteen-hour workdays seem to be her only justification for getting up in the morning. But before they can even discuss Kate's last several months, or what Jim is doing looking for her in Bering, they're up to their eyes in Jim's case, which is suddenly more complicated-- and more dangerous-- than they suspected.

A magnificent crime novel about life in America's last wilderness, the heart-wrenching grief that goes with love, and murder, Midnight Come Again is Dana Stabenow's best novel to date.©2000 Dana Stabenow; (P)2000 Books on Tape, Inc.

Best

This was one of if not the best Kate Shugak book I have read yet. The last few chapters, specifically the ending brought this man to tears.

Another Fine Stabenow Work

It was difficult to read this book, in that it was difficult to grieve so fully with someone like Kate. Stabenow handled that emotional challenge deftly, as well as the intricate plot and characterizations. I will say the narration seemed a bit lackluster. Either this was the first book Gavin narrated in the series (which would be odd and out of order, since she narrated the 10 before), or she was under the weather the whole time.

Great Characters

Another great Kate Schugak Alaska mystery. I can just picture Kate getting lost somewhere in Alaska after major trauma. Main characters are Kate and Chopper Jim...oh and Mutt plays a big role--defending Kate's honor.. Stabenow does a great job with all of them. I especially like her description of Kate's weak knee impression of a blonde Russian. The good guys collar the [big-bad-Russian] 'perps and all ends well.

Decent story, wrong narrator

Average Kate Shugak story, but the narrator is mislabeled. This is most definitely not Marguerite Gavin’s voice and the listing needs to be corrected!

Read Hunter's Moon first!!!!

Must read the previous book in the series BEFORE this one or you will ruin them both! Both are excellent and both give a detailed and quite wonderful depiction of Alaskan life and both have a very strong and intelligent female main character. Love the series.