Blood Will Tell [Hardcover]

Dana Stabenow (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1997

At the request of her grandmother, a matriarch of her Aleut clan, Kate Shugak travels to Anchorage to investigate the mysterious deaths of several Council members just before a crucial meeting to determine the fate of some disputed tribal lands. Mystery Guild Alt.

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Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Mystery matters less than people and place in this sixth adventure for Native Alaskan investigator Kate Shugak (after Play with Fire). Relishing the prospect of a solitary winter at her isolated cabin, Shugak is pressured back to Anchorage by her grandmother, a leader of her Native association. A member of the association board dies mysteriously as the group prepares to vote on a controversial development initiative for tribal hunting and fishing lands. Soon after Shugak agrees to help, another board member suffers a fatal "accident." With the help of her lover, Jack Morgan, a local policeman, and the 140-pound Mutt, her half-Husky, half-Arctic gray wolf, Shugak sorts through tribal politics and a long trail of corruption in battles over land and oil. Sensing that lobbyists and developers have penetrated the Native association, Shugak fears that the truth may hit close to home. Even if Stabenow sometimes lapses into lecture tones to solve the puzzle, Alaska's rough and tumble history fascinates, and Shugak is an eloquent voice for Native Alaskan concerns in changing times. Two contrasting chapters?Shugak's shooting a moose and her reluctant conversion to glamour at Nordstrom's?stand out. Major ad/promo; Mystery Guild alternate.
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From Library Journal

Ancestral Alaska is at stake when Kate's grandmother, matriarch of their tribe, drags Kate to an important Federation of Natives meeting. Suspicious deaths threaten development decisions until Kate investigates. Evocative.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Hardcover
• Publisher: San Val (June 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0613999576
• ISBN-13: 978-0613999571
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,172,720 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Dana Stabenow was born in Anchorage and raised on 75-foot fish tender in the Gulf of Alaska.  She knew there was a warmer, drier job out there somewhere and found it in writing. 

Her first science fiction novel, Second Star, sank without a trace (but has since been resurrected as an e-book), her first crime fiction novel, A Cold Day for Murder, won an Edgar award, her first thriller, Blindfold Game, hit the New York Times bestseller list, and her twenty-eighth novel and nineteenth Kate Shugak novel, Restless in the Grave, comes out February 14, 2012.

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Moving Interlude, May 22, 2004

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Wendy Kaplan (Houston) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Blood Will Tell (Kate Shugak Mystery) (Mass Market Paperback)

Alhough "Blood Will Tell" is the sixth in the fabulous Kate Shugak series, it is more of an interlude between books rather than a story in itself.

This outing finds Kate reunited with her formidable grandmother, Ekaterina Moonin Shugak, the fabled matriarch of her tribe and of all the native Alaska peoples. Quite against her will, Kate has been roped in by her grandmother into leaving her beloved homestead, where she is just settling down with Mutt in anticipation of a lovely long winter, and traveling to Anchorage to attend the annual native Alaska convention.

As any devotee of this series knows, crowds of any kind are anathema to Kate, and having to attend such a convention is true punishment. But as readers also know, Ekaterina is not to be denied. So Kate and Mutt reluctantly say goodbye to peace and silence and travel off to the convention--only to be entangled in a nasty behind-the-scenes environmental ripoff that will not only cheat Kate's native people, but one that involves murder and danger.

Much more than usual, we earn about the Aleut customs and beliefs, and much more than usual, this reader was moved to tears several times.

A must for fans of this series to read, definitely a keeper.

10 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars cool and competent Kate, February 15, 2000

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loraine magee - See all my reviews

This review is from: Blood Will Tell (Kate Shugak Mystery) (Mass Market Paperback)

This story begins with the quandry of coming out of the outhouse and finding a moose nearby.Kate Shugak solves this problem and stocks up on meat for an Alaskan winter.As the story continues she goes with her grandmother to Anchorage to help with tribal politics,family matters and corruption. Kate does a wonderful job on her boyfriend's ex-wife and gets talked into going to a party all dressed up.It is a mystery and a story of a women finding her identity. The end is quite a surprise and may bring tears. This series is terrific,informative, and most of all-well written.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It Is In the Blood, April 9, 2009

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Nash Black "Troubadour" (Jamestown, KY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Blood Will Tell (Hardcover)

Kate Shugak has long avoided the tribal politics that is her grandmother's life blood, but Ekaterina induces her to Anchorage for the Alaska Federation of Natives convention.
Foxy Ekaterina leaves Kate with no choice but take the podium and speak to her people. At a loss as to what to say, Kate tells the story of her recent killing of a moose and the bounty of the land. The delegates understand within their hearts the pull of a land has for each one of them.
Mutt's entrapment of the FBI agent who is doing some B&R, as Kate and Jack Morgan are engaged in the same effort is one of the funniest scenes Ms. Stabenow has written for this outstanding series. Lies, greed, deceit are at the heart of the control of the convention which will change Kate's life.
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