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| Original Title: | Play With Fire |
| ISBN: | 0425152545 (ISBN13: 9780425152546) |
| Edition Language: | English URL http://www.stabenow.com/novels/kate-shugak/play-with-fire |
| Series: | Kate Shugak #5 |
| Characters: | Jack Morgan, Kate Shugak, Jim Chopin, Bernie Koslowski |
| Setting: | Alaska(United States) |
Dana Stabenow
Paperback | Pages: 320 pages Rating: 4.1 | 2929 Users | 175 Reviews
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Formerly the star investigator in the Anchorage D.A's office, Kate Shugak now tracks down criminals from her Aleut homestead. But she and her wolf-dog Mutt are taking a June break to pick wild morel mushrooms among the charred trees left by a devastating forest fire. In the ashes Kate also uncovers the mysterious corpse of a naked man. And when she is "hired" by a ten-year-old to locate his missing dad, she fears she has already found him. The reason how and why he died, however, is buried deeper than his body. Finding it will lead Kate to the remains of a woolly mammoth in a Fairbanks museum, back to her old lover Jack Morgan, and far afield to an isolated settlement of religious fundamentalists ... as she follows a twisted road toward a smoldering evil and the flash point for a macabre murder. The fifth Kate Shugak mystery, Play With Fire contains all of Stabenow's hallmarks of ingenious plotting and vivid characterizations. Best of all, it is again set in magnificently austere, endlessly fascinating Alaska, which comes to life through the authentic details only a true insider can provide.
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| Title | : | Play With Fire (Kate Shugak #5) |
| Author | : | Dana Stabenow |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 320 pages |
| Published | : | May 1st 1996 by Berkley (first published 1995) |
| Categories | : | Mystery. Fiction. Crime |
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Ratings: 4.1 From 2929 Users | 175 ReviewsComment On Out Of Books Play With Fire (Kate Shugak #5)
Delicious mushrooms grow after a fire. There's a hot blond with a camera hanging around out-of-work investigator Kate Shugak, because she ran out of gas while photographing Alaska. Picking 'shrooms at $$$ a pound will get her on the road again. The veteran in a wheel-chair can't get to the mushrooms, but he sure can cook. The body under the mushrooms - OK, how many people will say 'That sounds like a Miss Marple mystery title!'? I lost track ;)The client is heart breaking. The religiousI had a little trouble reading this book in the series - normally I really enjoy the Kate Shugak stories, but this one left me very disappointed. The author used this book as her own personal rant on Christianity. I say this because there is not one redeeming Christian character in the book. Every Christian talked about, a character who had a bad experience with a Christian, or non-Christians talking in conversations about the crazy whackos who believe this stuff are portrayed as zealous
The mystery was interesting enough, however the wholesale bashing of Christianity based on an encounter with a fringe cult group became tiresome. I also found the constant reference of people "from states beginning and ending with vowels" as red-necks offensive. In Shugak's world it appears to be okay to dish out lots of prejuidice.
Out foraging for morel mushrooms, the result of a massive forest fire, Kate Shugak discovers a naked, decomposing body. As it turns out the body belongs to a science teacher, run off by his pious community for teaching evolution. During the investigation, we are provided further insight into Kate's unique personality.
While I have enjoyed the Kate Shugak books in general, this one left a bad taste in my mouth. The mystery part was fine, like all her others, but unlike the others, this one gave no insight or understanding into the opposition. Her first books on native Alaskans, an oil company, crab fishing, etc. were interesting, giving a look into something unfamiliar and even explaining and overcoming stereotypes in most cases. This book's antagonists were a fringe Christian group, but every other character
This book got off to a really promising start with investigator Kate Shugak stumbling onto a corpse while mushroom picking in an Alaskan forest. A young boy hires her to find his missing father and Shugak discovers they're all mixed up with a fundamentalist sect. Was the death accidental or murderous retaliation? The other good thing in this book is that you get more of Kate's back story with a visit to the University of Alaska Fairbanks, where she recalls her years as a student.Unfortunately,
Kate Shugak is turning out to stick in my head as an interesting heroine. Progressive, independent values clearly shared by the author, fascinating Alaskan setting and characters. Ocassionally a bit preachy.
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