A Fine and Bitter Snow, Dana Stabenow
A Fine and Bitter Snow, Dana Stabenow
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A Fine and Bitter Snow

Author: Dana Stabenow

Narrator: Marguerite Gavin

Unabridged: 6 hr 18 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/09/2002


Synopsis

Book 12: A Kate Shugak Novel

Dana Stabenow's back with another winning installment in A Fine and Bitter Snow

Change never comes easy, but it comes just the same, and it's on its way to the Park, to Niniltna, in southeast Alaska. This time it concerns the possibility of drilling for oil in a wildlife preserve near there, near Aleutian P.I. Kate Shugak's home territory. Battle lines are drawn across their community, but at least it gives Kate something to do. Still just months after her lover's violent death, though she doesn't know quite how, she is trying to get back into her daily life.

First, tensions run high as their resident park ranger, Dan O'Brien, is deemed "too green for them" by management and asked to take early retirement. Kate rallies the troops inside the Park to fight for his job, but before she can really start throwing her weight around, a long-time Park resident is brutally murdered, another stabbed and left for dead as well.

Alaska State Trooper Jim Chopin enlists Kate to help investigate, and together they tackle the loose ends: motive, timing, opportunity, means. One thing is for certain-in Dana Stabenow's masterful crime novels about the beauty and the danger of living and dying in Alaska, nothing is as simple as it seems.

About The Author

Dana Stabenow, a New York Times bestselling author and Edgar Award winner, has written twenty Kate Shugak mysteries, four Liam Campbell mysteries, three science-fiction novels, and two thrillers, and she also freelances for Alaska magazine. She was born, raised, and lives in Alaska, where she was awarded the Governor's Award for the Arts and Humanities in 2007.Marguerite Gavin has recorded more than three hundred audiobooks. She is a winner of both AudioFile Earphones and Publishers Weekly Listen-Up awards. She lives with her family around Washington, DC.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Kelly_Hunsaker_reads on May 11, 2016

I was very disappointed in books 9 & 10. I missed book 11. And I am so glad that in this book - book 12 - Kate is back where she belongs. She is at home in her Park. She is at home with Johnny. She is at home in her own skin. What is good: Jim Chopin is growing as a character. He was almost cartoonis......more

Goodreads review by Stephanie on May 14, 2021

Marguerite Gavin is the narrator for the audiobook version of this novel.......more

Goodreads review by Judy on February 15, 2016

This was one of my favorites in the series. It had all of the great Park characters, and we learned a few new things about some of them. Very good mystery, and plenty of sexual tension. Dana Stabenow can really tell a story.......more

Goodreads review by Abibliofob on February 01, 2023

A Fine and Bitter Snow by Dana Stabenow is another great alaskan adventure with P.I. Kate Shugak, this time it starts with some troubling news that the current park ranger is being replaced. Then it goes to murder and a sad story about things that happened long ago. It is also a great story about Ch......more

Goodreads review by Lukasz on February 10, 2017

"Falling snow toned a shout down to a murmur and then absorbed the murmur, imposing its own sweet, silent hush on a noisy world." Dana Stabenow's A Fine and Bitter Snow, my first book by the author, almost gets thumbs-up from me. It is the twelfth installment in the 20-novel series that features Kate......more