Midnight come again

by Dana Stabenow

Paper Book, 2000

Status

Available

Call number

813/.54

Series

Kate Shugak (10)

Genres

Mystery

All Topics

Fiction

Publication

New York : St. Martin's Minotaur, 2000.

Description

Fiction. Mystery. Romance. Thriller. HTML:Book 10: A Kate Shugak Novel Edgar Award winner Dana Stabenow has written numerous atmospheric crime novels featuring the very prickly, very human Kate Shugak, but her novels also have a scene-stealing costar: Alaska, unforgiving, breathtaking, dangerous, and beautiful. Stabenow's evocation of this wilderness, combined with her talent for bringing characters to life and creating knuckle-whitening suspense, has made her "one of the strongest voices in crime fiction." (Seattle Times). Now in Midnight Come Again, all these elements come together for Stabenow's most compelling Kate Shugak novel to date. Kate, a former investigator for the Anchorage D.A. and now a P.I. for hire, is missing after a winter spent in mourning. Alaska State Trooper Jim Chopin, Kate's best friend, needs her to help him work a new case. He discovers her hiding out in Bering, a small fishing village on Alaska's western coast, living and working under an assumed name�?? working hard, as eighteen-hour workdays seem to be her only justification for getting up in the morning. But before they can even discuss Kate's last several months, or what Jim is doing looking for her in Bering, they're up to their eyes in Jim's case, which is suddenly more complicated�?? and more dangerous�?? than they suspected. A magnificent crime novel about life in America's last wilderness, the heart-wrenching grief that goes with love, and murder, Midnight Come Again is Dana Stabenow's best novel… (more)

User reviews

LibraryThing member ffortsa

Kate Shugak is rocked to her core by the death of her lover, and has buried herself in bitterly hard work handling freight in the far north. But the Russian mafia, a load of plutonium, and familiar faces conspire to get her to do more than mindlessly unload cargo.

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LibraryThing member jepeters333

Kate, a former investigator for the Anchorage DA and now a PI for hire, is missing after a winter spent in mourning. Alaska State Trooper Jim Chopin, Kate's best friend, needs her to help him work a new case. He discovers her hiding out in Bering, a small fishing village on Alaska's western coast,

living and working under an assumed name - working hard, under an assumed name - working hard, as 18-hour workdays seem to be her only justification for getting up in the morning. But before they can even discuss Kate's last several months, or what Jim is doing looking for her in Bering, they're up to their eyes in Jim's case, which is suddenly more complicated - and more dangerous - than they suspected.

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LibraryThing member buffalogr

Another great Kate Schugak Alaska mystery. I can just picture Kate getting lost somewhere in Alaska after major trauma. Main characters are Kate and Chopper Jim...oh and Mutt plays a big role--defending Kate's honor.. Stabenow does a great job with all of them. I especially like her description of

Kate's weak knee impression of a blonde Russian. The good guys collar the [big-bad-Russian] 'perps and all ends well.

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LibraryThing member MM_Jones

Not my favorite Dana Stabenow novel. I enjoy her characters, the recurring one and the introduction of new ones. I enjoy how she captures Alaska; the people, the systems, the nature. But the crime and/or thriller portion of this novel and the portrayal of the FBI fell rather flat.

LibraryThing member TheYodamom

This was another tough to read one in the series but not as bad as the last. The last book still haunts me, it was brutal. Reading about the after, the new Kate, the nearly empty shell of the person I knew. The shadows cling to Kate and her world, and she has abandoned herself. She disappeared

without a word for months till one day Chopper Jim walks into the room, but his Kate is not there.
Jim has been put on an assignment looking into possible terrorist activity. He looked for Kate, but wasn't able to find her, till he traveled to his assignment and there she was, broken with a new name. She gets tangled in his assignment after Jim is hurt and separately they piece this mess together. Separately is the key word, both are too haunted to do anything together. There is a small bit of comfort that comes from the darkness, but even that quickly gets ugly again. I don't know where these two will go in the series. I'd always wanted something long term for the two of them, they work well together. The last book might have buried any chance of that. ~sigh~ I'd like to see Kate happy again.

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