Kirkus calls Kate18 “a fascinating puzzle”

The notoriously hard-to-please Kirkus Reviews says:

THOUGH NOT DEAD
Author: Stabenow, Dana

Review Date: November 1, 2010
Publisher:Minotaur Books
Pages: 464
Price ( Hardcover ): $25.99
Publication Date: February 1, 2011
ISBN ( Hardcover ): 978-0-312-55911-3
Category: Fiction
Classification: Mystery

Alaskan native Kate Shugak (A Night Too Dark, 2010, etc.), former
investigator for the Anchorage DA, investigates her own family’s past.

When he dies, Kate’s uncle and foster father, Old Sam, leaves everything
to Kate, along with a letter telling her how to distribute his property.
While packing up Sam’s extensive book collection, she finds an old
diary. But before she’s read very much of it, someone bashes her in the
head and steals it. The theft is only the first in a series of dangerous
encounters. After she’s run off the road, attacked and shot at while
checking out Sam’s property in the remote Canyon Hot Springs area, she
realizes that Sam had something someone badly wants, and that Sam’s life
must hold the clues to what she needs to know. So she travels around
Alaska digging up information. A cryptic note saying only “Find my
father” leads her to Sam’s Army service in the World War II Aleutian
campaign, where he met Dashiell Hammett and apparently his real father,
a con man and thief who had stolen a precious Russian icon. With her
boyfriend, State Trooper Jim Chopin, off in the lower 48 for his
father’s funeral, Kate has only her half-wolf Mutt and her prodigious
skills in surviving Alaska’s often brutal conditions to help her find
the truth.

Kate’s latest presents both a fascinating puzzle and an in-depth look at
life in Alaska, past and present.

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