Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9780425172599
ISBN number: 0425172597
Label: Berkley
Manufacturer: Berkley
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 239
Printing Date: December 01, 1999
Publishing house: Berkley
Sale Popularity Level: 97668
Studio: Berkley
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A corporate hunting retreat turns into a deadly game of cat and mouse in this latest addition to the Kate Shugak series.
'With eight Shugak mysteries under her belt, Stabenow is quickly emerging as one of the strongest voices in crime fiction in the vast expanse of Alaska,' wrote The Seattle Times of last year's Killing Grounds. With Hunter's Moon, the unstoppable Kate Shugak guides a hunting expedition gone horribly wrong.
It's September and the height of hunting season in the bush. Experienced hunter Kate and her boyfriend, Jack, volunteer to help out their friend and big-game outfitter George Perry with a hunting trip. But while they kill to pack their freezers, this wealthy group of German computer executives wants trophies to hang on their walls. The conflict of interest doesn't end there; used to pampering, the group has a style that clashes with Kate's self-sufficient ways.
After successfully bagging a moose with two of her charges, Kate returns to camp to learn that a hunter has been shot. It appears to be an accident, until the body of a second hunter is discovered in even more gruesome circumstances. With no shortage of potential suspects, Kate realizes the moose and the bears aren't the only animals being hunted in the bush.
In a plot that combines elements of Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None and Richard Connell's The Most Dangerous Game, in a setting as perilous as it is beautiful, with a cast of characters as rich and full as any in detective fiction today, Dana Stabenow weaves a story that will test the limits of Kate's strength, ingenuity, and determination, and will ultimately change the course of her life forever.
Amazon.com Review:
At Taiga Lodge, George Perry's exclusive big-game hunting camp 125 miles northeast of Anchorage, Alaska, the price of admission has a unique flavor. 'The charges depend on the customer's attitude,' George tells Kate Shugak, who's working as one of his assistant guides. 'The more they piss me off, the higher the price.' Which means the party of German computer executives that Kate and her colleagues are looking after will be lucky to go home with any money at all. More interested in firing off their expensive guns than in the sport of hunting moose, these guys are a danger to themselves and anyone else within range. But when human bodies start to outnumber moose-head trophies, the resourceful Aleut Indian Kate realizes that the deaths have more to do with financial and moral crimes back home in Germany than accidents in Alaska.
Hunter's Moon, Dana Stabenow's ninth installment in the excellent Kate Shugak series, is enriched with the intricate details of everyday Alaskan life. The author follows the lives of ordinary people as they try to survive the harshly majestic environment as best they can. She shows how people can be tempered and improved by the rugged country, or bent by it to the breaking point. Kate herself might occasionally acquire the mythic proportions of a fictional heroine, but she also embodies the pain and human frailty that make her instantly recognizable as one of us, no matter where we live. --Dick Adler
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Of all the Kate Shugak novels, this one stands above. Dana Stabenow takes a huge risk in killing a sympathetic character, but it's one that sets Kate up for the significant development she undergoes in subsequent books. Wrenching, emotional, harsh, superb. Dana's talent shines.
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People on previous reviews let it slip, but that didn't make me not want to read this book. I have enjoyed the series, and I even liked this book, sad though it was. It just shows more growth for the main character. I hope Ms. Stabenow gracefully has Kate recover from this and writes many more enjoyable books. So many other authors have done this and the series never are quite the same.
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I'm writing this review because of all the people who have said they will stop reading the series because of this book.
If you have read the other reviews, you know that a Very Bad Thing happens in this book -- many of the reviews have said exactly what that Very Bad Thing is.
I had a similar reaction. But I already had the subsequent book in hand, and wanted -- needed -- to see what happened after. So I read it, and the subsequent one, and the one after that, and the one after _that_ (and I'll be reading the most recently released as soon as I get my hands on it).
They are worth reading, just as much as the ones before. Yes, a Very Bad Thing happens in this book. Senseless, unforeseen, and devastating. But such things happen in real life too. And people go on, much as this series goes on.
So if you liked the series up to this point, read Hunter's Moon, react, and then keep reading the series. I don't think you'll regret it.
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I started reading this series with 'A Fine and Bitter Snow' and have made my way, increasingly faster, through the earlier books. Having read references to the tragedy that befell Jack, I knew of the premise before I started the book. However that didn't soften the blow. I too found myself with tears, greatly caring about these 2 fictional characters (and Mutt too!).
Reading later books in the series first, I didn't initially warm to Kate's character who I felt was somewhat cold and detached. Now I completely understand that part of her character, a result of the loss she experienced. It has been enjoyable to read the earlier books which she shared with Jack, and I'm enjoying reading later books where there is a glimmer of happiness in her future.
Dana has made me a fan of mysteries and added to my love of all things Alaskan!
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I avoided reading this novel for a long time because I accidently found out the ending in a review. I was quite disapointed in the stunt ending and the lack of any real mystery. I read to be entertained, to learn someting new, not to be annoyed at the end because there was very little value in what I had paid for. The German hunting party for the most part was a sampling of every cartoon character that portrays bad guy, killing off a main characther because there was no effort to write a better solution to ending a romantic dilemma, and the "Outside" bashing. This series has probably come to and end for me as I'm finding the writing formulaistic and am not as entertained as I once was when the plots were more cunning and the charaters more believable.
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