publisher’s weekly review for a night too dark

The Publisher’s Weekly review of
A Night Too Dark,
the 17th Kate Shugak novel
(Minotaur, February 2010):

A Night Too Dark: A Kate Shugak Novel Dana Stabenow. Minotaur, $24.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-312-55909-0

Bestseller Stabenow deftly explores the environmental and economic impact of gold mining in her sizzling 17th novel to feature Alaska PI Kate Shugak (after 2009′s Whisper to the Blood). Global Harvest Resources is intent on opening the Suulutaq Mine, where substantial deposits of gold, copper, and molybdenum have been found on state leases in the middle of the Iqaluk Wildlife Refuge, 50 miles from Niniltna. When Kate, “chair of the board of directors of the Niniltna Native Association,” and state trooper Jim Chopin find bear-eaten human remains near the truck of Global Harvest roustabout Dewayne A. Gammons, they assume the remains are Gammons’s. After all, there was a suicide note in Gammons’s truck. Weeks later, a wounded and nearly catatonic Gammons emerges from the woods near Kate’s homestead. More puzzles—and murder—follow. An uneasy resolution to the crimes suggests further drama ahead for Kate and her fellow “Park rats.” Author tour. (Feb.)

Go here and here to read excerpts. Two more will be posted, on January 1st and February 1st. A Reader’s Guide goes up on February 16th, date of publication.

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