Killing grounds - [8] Kate Shugak mystery by Dana Stabenow
Like Nevada Barr,
Dana Stabenow writes mysteries so firmly rooted in the natural world
that their sense of place becomes a vital part of the plot. In this
book about Native Alaskan crime solver Kate Shugak, the ocean and the
men who fish it for salmon are described in such vivid detail that
you'll never look at a salmon steak the same way again. When a
particularly nasty fisherman is murdered, there's no end of
suspects--including members of Kate's own family. The story also sports
a richly ironic undertone of political incorrectness, as Kate muses
about the forest rangers, "who wanted to annex every square foot of
land they saw and keep it pristine and inviolate, unsullied by human
hand. They failed to recall that the indigenous peoples who came across
the Bering land bridge during the last Ice Age had their hands all over
anything that had the remotest possibility of nutritional value, and
were every bit as much of the landscape and the wheel of life as the
fish and the birds and the mammals."
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