6/29/2023 0 Comments Fire and ice by dana stabenowI wish I still had the receipt, because I think it amounted to about $120 on my expense account for that book tour. I remember with particular fondness a pear-potato bisque finished with a white wine from France. This is massive trauma for any author, and so I responded in time-honored authorial fashion: I sobbed loudly at her over the phone, and then I left my hotel room and found the priciest restaurant within walking distance, where I ate and drank everything on the menu from soup to nuts, at Putnam’s expense. I was on book tour with, I think it was, Breakup, the seventh Kate Shugak novel, when my editor at Putnam called to tell me that she was leaving for a job at another publishing house. Of course, small town tensions tend to simmer just beneath the surface, and murder, once done, has a tendency to happen again… Dealing with death is never simple, but when the woman leaning over the body proves to be Liam’s old flame, it’s evident that his new job is about to become much more complicated.įrom Newenham’s cast of eccentric – and sometimes hair-trigger – residents, to the intricate ballet of fishing boats rushing against time to net their limit, Stabenow captures the contagious spirit of melancholy madness that pervades America’s last frontier. Alaska State Trooper Liam Campbell, demoted and reassigned to the remote Bush town of Newenham, literally steps off the plane into a murder scene.
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