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In "A Deeper Sleep, " her first novel since "Blindfold Game, " the stand-alone political thriller that made Dana Stabenow a "New York Times" bestseller, Stabenow returns to the popular and award-winning Kate Shugak series. Kate, a private investigator, has been working on a case for the Anchorage District Attorney involving the murder of a young woman by her husband, a man named Louis Deem. Deem has been the subject of investigations before, and he's never been convicted of a crime. But Kate and her on-again, off-again lover, state trooper Jim Chopin, who arrested Deem, are convinced that this time it's different, and he'll finally be punished for his actions. When the jury returns a verdict of not guilty, Kate and Jim are devastated, and like the rest of the citizens of Niniltna, Alaska, certain that a man has gotten away with murder. They can't help but think that it's only a matter of time before he's in the frame for another killing. Sure enough, a few weeks later a shooting leaves two dead in an apparent robbery. But this time Kate and Jim have a witness, and they're not going to let Louis Deem get away again. Or will he? Dana Stabenow, Edgar Award-winning author and "New York Times" bestselling thriller writer, delivers a gripping page-turner about one town's search for justice--at any cost.
Author Notes
Dana Stabenow is the author of the Kate Shugak series for Putnam/Berkley and the Liam Campbell Series for Dutton/Signet.
She lives in Anchorage, Alaska.
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Reviews (5)
Publisher's Weekly Review
All the elements that have made the author's signature Kate Shugak crime series successful shine in this 15th entry (after 2004's A Taint in the Blood): Kate's personal growth as a woman and as an investigator; the Alaskan environment in all its unforgiving beauty; and a mystery whose solution remains in doubt until the end. The story opens with a brutal murder. The culprit, Louis Deem, who has managed to avoid justice for past crimes, is so odious that his presence is a cancer in the little Niniltna community Kate calls home. Stabenow's rich cast of supporting characters include natives and longtime settlers as well as those newcomers so unprepared that Kate refers to them as committing "suicide by Alaska." There is rough humor, a rich heritage of the community necessary for survival, and at the same time a remarkable tolerance for the many idiosyncrasies of those attracted to the harsh realities of Alaskan life. Kate Shugak is becoming a leader among her people and is already a leader in the sorority of women detectives. (Jan.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Kirkus Review
A ne'er-do-well in Niniltna, Alaska, as bent as he is good-looking, has so far escaped justice, but he may not escape revenge. When Louis Deem is acquitted in the murder of his third wife because the local jury is terrorized by Deem's cohort, Auntie Vi, one of the four "aunties" who unofficially run Niniltna, has had enough. She comes to Kate Shugak (A Taint in the Blood, 2004) with two dangerous demands: one, that Deem pay for his crimes, and two, that Kate assume leadership in the Niniltna Native Association, a role she's assiduously avoided. Kate agrees to bring Deem to justice, though she has no idea how, and ignores the second demand. She speaks with Deem's latest fiance, the young daughter of a large family homesteading in Volcanoes National Park near a possible gold deposit. As a result, someone shoots Mutt, Kate's beloved dog. Then someone breaks into the home of bartender Bernie Koslowski, who collects gold nuggets, and kills his wife and teenage son. Johnny Morgan, Kate's foster son, insists that he saw Deem do it, but once again there's no proof. Will Deem get away with murder again? Yet another strong entry in this long-running series: a satisfying exploration of justice on America's last frontier with a twisty ending that marks a new stage in Kate's career. Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
Booklist Review
In her fifteenth adventure, private investigator Kate Shugak is determined to find the evidence to convict Louis Deem, who has been arrested and tried for several serious crimes but never convicted. When a double homicide occurs after his latest acquittal, Kate investigates. A witness places Deem at the scene, but Kate wants additional evidence to convince the jury. Deem is a dangerous character who intimidates witnesses, and Kate and her family won't be safe until he is in jail. Kate is a strong, smart, respected investigator and member of her Alaskan community. In fact, the tribal elders in the Native American community want Kate to assume a leadership role in the tribe's affairs, a role Kate doesn't want. Also on Kate's mind is her relationship with Alaska state trooper Jim Chopin: matters are heating up, although Jim is now the one showing some ambivalence to a more permanent relationship. An engaging plot, the fascinating Native American frame, the well-developed characters, and the vivid depiction of the Alaskan wilderness add up to another strong entry in this consistently satisfying series. --Sue O'Brien Copyright 2006 Booklist
New York Review of Books Review
AMONG the many perverse diversions and delights of Jesse Kellerman's unnerving new thriller, TROUBLE (Putnam, $24.95), are his clinically detailed descriptions of all the variables that could drive a third-year medical student like Jonah Stem crazy. The sleep deprivation from putting in 16-hour days, six days a week, might do it alone. But compounding that constant assault on the nervous system are the abusive egomaniacal surgeons, the disgusting scut work on the colorectal ward and the staggering psychic misery of observing all the human suffering. That Kellerman maintains such a grimly hilarious perspective on his subject is its own twisted tribute to the survival instincts of writers who go down to the depths to entertain their readers. In Jonah's words, when he finds himself on the psych wing: "You had to laugh. If you didn't, you'd drown." As this psychologically complex story develops, it isn't the normal crush of work and study that finally pushes this sensitive hero to the limits of his mental endurance. It's a woman who calls herself Eve Jones. Jonah thought he was rescuing Eve from a violent death when he fought and killed a man he saw attacking her on a dark street on the far West Side of Manhattan. (Indeed, he has his moment of fame as a media hero: "Superdoc Battles Sicko W/ Knife.") But Eve works her way into his bloodstream like a slow-acting poison, challenging his devotion to an ex-girlfriend who suffers from a debilitating neurological disorder and wickedly manipulating Jonah's emotional neediness to satisfy her own sadistic sexual tastes. Before Jonah realizes that this pain artist means it literally when she says "I love you to death," she has taken control of his life. Jesse Kellerman Eve may be too much of a monster to pass as a credible human being, but she's a memorable character, with her mad theories on the aesthetics of pain and her genius at recognizing the wolfish impulses Jonah has repressed under his nice-guy persona. ("She knew," Jonah acknowledges. "She could divine latent rage.") Her feats of pure, guilt-free perversity also make her a wonderful foil for the amusingly clueless friends and family members against whose behavioral norms Jonah is subconsciously rebelling. "He needed to see how it felt to say no," Jonah says, when he first blows off one of his routine duty calls on his ex-girlfriend. "And now he knew: it felt O.K." But in a very short while, it will not feel O.K. at all, and Jonah can only wish he were back on the colorectal ward. Thomas H. Cook is one of the most literary of psychological-suspense authors, and sometimes, as in THE CLOUD OF UNKNOWING (Otto Penzler/Harcourt, $24), he allows his lyrical style to swamp his story. But while the suspense is minimal in this first-person account of an underachieving small-town lawyer who fears for the sanity of his gifted but unstable sister, the narrative is sustained by its thematic richness and the subtlety of its psychological portraits of tormented characters. As children, both David Sears and his older sister, Diana, were subjected to grueling intellectual drills by their father, a paranoid schizophrenic given to frightening rages when a little boy stumbles over his lessons in Greek mythology. But unlike David, who resigns himself to being the dunce of the family, Diana is every bit as brilliant as her father - and perhaps as mad. That suspicion, first raised when Diana accuses her husband of having murdered their mentally disturbed son, becomes an obsession with David when she initiates his teenage daughter into her fanciful way of thinking. Although Cook is maddeningly coy about who actually killed whom, he writes eloquently about the fears that lead people to equate intelligence with madness, suppressing the imagination and taking refuge in mediocrity. When I'm casting about for an antidote to the sugary female sleuths who solve crimes without disrupting their social calendars, Kate Shugak, the Aleut private investigator in Dana Stabenow's Alaskan mysteries, invariably comes to mind. In more than a dozen novels, Kate has demonstrated that she can shoot a rifle, butcher a moose, overhaul an engine and survive in remote regions of the Alaskan wilderness. More amazing yet, her outdoor skills don't alienate the rugged men in her life. A DEEPER SLEEP (St. Martin's Minotaur, $24.95) finds Kate under pressure from her relatives to get tough with a serial wife-killer whose luck at eluding the law has demoralized their entire village. For once, Kate's straight-arrow methods fail her, truth being an arbitrary concept in a community where local custom dictates justice. So forget all those hair-raising treks into the wild; joining the tribal council may well be the most dangerous move Kate has ever made. Meanwhile, thousands of miles away on an Indian pueblo in New Mexico, a young female agent with the Bureau of Land Management puts some muscle into a homicide case with eerie mystical overtones. Making her striking debut in Sandi Ault's WILD INDIGO (Berkley Prime Crime, $23.95), Jamaica Wild watches a man trampled in a buffalo stampede. Despite the expression of rapture she saw on his face, she refuses to accept the Tanoah tribe's judgment that his death was a suicide and doggedly pursues an investigation that strains her relationship with the "pueblo mother" who's initiating her into the Tanoah customs. Scenes of the high, dry, glittering landscape are as clean as a sun-bleached bone, and there are thrills galore when Jamaica is trapped in a flash flood that tears down the canyon walls of an ancient mountain sacred to the tribe. But Ault is no less artful at depicting the marriage customs, funeral rites and religious ceremonies that have drawn Jamaica to this tightly knit world and made her lose her heart to its people. In Kellerman's thriller, a woman works her way into his medical-student hero's bloodstream like a slow-acting poison.
Library Journal Review
P.I. Kate Shugak and state trooper Jim Chopin try to pin murders on a slippery suspect in Nilniltna, AK, in her 15th case. Edgar-winning Stabenow lives in Alaska. Seven-city tour. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.