I'm bemused by the ending

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	• A Deeper Sleep: A Kate Shugak Novel (Kate Shugak Novels) Dana Stabenow St. Martin's Minotaur, 2008 - 352 pages average customer review:based on 22 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Another Excellent Story

I love all of books in this series from the very first one to this latest one. Kate is a strong person and I enjoy reading about life in Alaska. Never once have I been disappointed in Kate or the people in the park. Dana Stabenow writes wonderful stories and I have a hard time between Kate Shugak adventures.

Contrived Ending

In this fifteenth Kate Shugak outing, Stabenow has fallen short. This outing lacks passion, it feels obligatory, the ending seems contrived and unrealistic.

Yes, it's a mystery - of sorts. There's a killer on the loose in the Park. Everyone knows who has done the deed. But the killer is like teflon - the charges against him don't stick. When an eyewitness accuses the killer killing a mother and her child, the Park Rats know that the killer will be sent away. But will he? Not if his luck holds.

No one hates the killer more than Kate Shugak. She and Jim Chopin investigate the killing, but can't seem to put him at the scene despite the eyewitness. The case against the killer goes from bad to worse in a very short time.

The ending, involving the aunties, is just not believable. It's as if Stabenow got only so far in her writing and couldn't figure out how to end the book so she contrived the ending. This is not a good ploy for Stabenow fans.

Stabenow has, for years, been one of the best writers of procedurals around. Her characters have remained vibrant and interesting over the years. Stabenow's writing has improved from very good to outstanding. It's too bad that this book was published as is.

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I'm bemused by the ending

SPOILER

I agree with other readers that this volume is a bit "thin," but I'm mostly bemused by the ending. If I've got it right, there were seven co-conspirators (well, six at least) in on the last murder. And Kate didn't figure it out - at least not all of it! Isn't she supposed to be the heroine/detective?

A Deeper Sleep

A Deeper Sleep: A Kate Shugak Novel (Kate Shugak Novels)
Ms Stabenow keeps writing better novels with each new one. This is a difficult story, with no perfect solution. What in life has perfect solutions?

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Kate Shugak, a private investigator, has been working on a case for the Anchorage District Attorney involving the murder of a young woman by her husband, a man named Louis Deem. Deem has been the subject of investigations before, and he?s never been convicted of a crime. But Kate and her on-again, off-again lover, state trooper Jim Chopin, who arrested Deem, are convinced that this time it?s different?and he?ll finally be punished for his actions.

When the jury returns a verdict of not guilty, Kate, Jim, and citizens of Niniltna, Alaska, believe Deem has gotten away with murder. And when, a few weeks later, two people turn up dead after an apparent robbery, Kate and Jim can?t help but believe that Deem is involved?but what it takes to bring Deem to justice could tear them apart?if the real killer doesn?t get to them first.

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