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    Bad Blood
    Bad Blood
    Bad Blood
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    Bad Blood

    By Dana Stabenow

    3.5/5

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    KATE SHUGAK is a native Aleut working as a private investigator in Alaska. She's 5 foot 1 inch tall, carries a scar that runs from ear to ear across her throat and owns half-wolf, half-husky dog named Mutt. Resourceful, strong-willed, defiant, Kate is tougher than your average heroine – and she needs to be to survive the worst the Alaskan wilds can throw at her.

    BAD BLOOD: One hundred years of bad blood between two Alaskan villages come to a boil when the body of a young Kushtaka man is found wedged in a fish wheel. Sergeant Jim Chopin's prime suspect is a Kuskulana man who is already in trouble in both villages for falling in love across the river. But when he disappears, both tribes refuse to speak to Jim – so when there's a second murder which looks suspiciously like payback, Jim calls on Kate Shugak for help.

    Now Kate must untangle the village tales of tragedy and revenge if she is to find the truth before it's too late...
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBloomsbury Publishing
    Release dateFeb 26, 2013
    ISBN9781781852897
    Bad Blood
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    Dana Stabenow

    Dana Stabenow was born in Anchorage, Alaska and raised on a 75-foot fishing tender. She knew there was a warmer, drier job out there somewhere and found it in writing. Her first book in the bestselling Kate Shugak series, A Cold Day for Murder, received an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America. Follow Dana at stabenow.com

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    • 4/5
      Romeo and Juliet--Alaska style. Chopper Jim is stonewalled when he tries to solve murders invovling two feuding villages and no one will talk. The narration: Marguerite Gavin does a fantastic job reading this series. Given the ending, I thought that this book, #20, was the end of Kate. Imagine my surprise to find #21 available.
    • 1/5
      Couldn't seem to get going with this book at all and quickly abandoned it.
    • 4/5
      Another satisfying read from Stabenow. This book ends with a cliffhanger. The Shugak series, of which this is book 20,are full of information about Aleutian Indian culture and Alaskan plants and animals. If you read Hillerman or Nevada Barr,you will like this series.There is a lot going on in this murder mystery--3 murders, drugs and whiskey smuggling, and a blood feud between two bush Alaskan villages. There is also a Romeo and Juliet love story.This book is more about Alaska State trooper Jim Chopin than Kate Shugak.
    • 4/5
      Romeo and Juliet crossed with the Hatfields and McCoys and plopped down in modern-day Alaska. The haves and the have-nots: two small towns on the fringes of one of America's last frontiers, on opposite sides of a river, with opposing viewpoints on almost everything and bone-deep, years-long grudges held fiercely by almost all concerned. The resentment and hatred flicker but ride the edge of civility, until the first body turns up and Sergent Jim Chopin, the new flying pastor, and of course, Kate Shugak and Mutt get involved.I liked everything about this book with one huge exception: the ending. Not nice at all to leave us readers with a fade-to-black that way!
    • 2/5
      Like a previous reviewer, I agree that the series is just losing my interest. Absolutely hated the ending, but I guess something had to be interesting in the book.
    • 3/5
      Just finished listening to Bad Blood(Kate Shugak #20) and here's the verdict:What I liked: The narration: Marguerite Gavin does a fantastic job reading this series. Her voices fit the characters and she has a reading style that keeps you engaged.The romance between Jennifer and Ryan. Although they are young they seem to be mature and have a realistic picture of what it takes to make a marriage work.The ending: I know many readers were disappointed with the ending but it left me anxious for the next volume. The ending was so shocking it left you wondering what's next for the series.What I didn't like: The convoluted plot line. Not only was it confusing it was boring. The reason behind the murders was underwhelming. I would like to see more suspense and a mystery that keeps you guessing.The character's were flat-Jim and Kate seemed to be shadows of their former selves. Also, Johnny only made a brief phone in appearance in the book.I have to admit if not for the ending I may have given up on the series as it seems to have lost a bit of its sparkle. I'm hoping the next installment will give the Kate Shugak books a much needed kick start. Not bad but not Dana Stabenow's best. 3.0 stars
    • 4/5
      Chopper Jim is stonewalled when he tries to solve murders invovling two feuding villages and no one will talk. Violence and hatred are in the air, juxtaposed with the romance between two young folks from each village. There is crime resolution by the end, but unsettling results for Kate.
    • 2/5
      First I need to say I thought it was me. Next I need to say it was the book. I picked up another right after this one by another author and I ended up staying up to read the whole thing. It was well written, interesting, great plot, characters that lived. In short everything this was not. It was the book.

      Like the last book of Stabenow's, I had a very hard time getting into this. The last book, as much as I love Kate and Liam, was like wrestling with a grizzly during breakup. Dana Stabenow is on my buy without reading list. I am probably going to remove it from the list after the last two books.

      I would have given this a 3 [barely more like a rounded up 2.85] except Dana is now doing the draw it out for more than one book cliff hanger endings. I hate those. The ending was a 1. Flat out if you don't plan to read the next book, don't bother. It was a serious temptation to make the entire book a 1 but I've read worse. They need a rating that says "Should never have been a book" instead of 1

      I don't expect a plot to be tidy but I do expect it to not make me have to buy the next book because some twit of a writer can't finish it up properly in one book. I call those twits the "I can't write but I can draw one book out and make a LOT of money from it" writers. They take one plot, meander around, don't bother to end it but leave you hanging and continue the plot in the next. By the time you finish all 7 books in their series [if you last that long] You suddenly realize you read half a book.

      Dana's previous books were solid, well written, funny, serious, and, while in a series, could be read as a stand alone. Now? She's one of the masses that are not on my buy before reading list.

      It, like the last, jumped all over the place and seemed as if I were reading a couple short stories that were interwoven. The actually plot seems to start halfway thru the book. The beginning was simply set up and boring set up at that. It didn't add anything to any of the characters and I couldn't see the Kate, Jim or Mutt I fell in love with.

      If she hadn't been better at writing before this, she would have got a 3 but she's better than this.
    • 4/5
      Two small towns, one big feud, a pair of star-crossed lovers, and several murders.If you've been reading the series, you'll want this. If you haven't, start earlier. (Although it would stand alone reasonably well, I think.)

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