Strange happenings in the Alaskan National Park!

Not the Ones Dead (Kate Shugak #23) by Dana Stabenow   

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Another satisfying novel by Stabenow. I can smell the cold crisp of the air, and taste the frozen mountains. Stabenow’s descriptions of this awesome, spreading Alaskan National Park are a delight.

Less delightful is what happens here! Unexplained! A group of settlers are denying people access to public tracks. The roadhouse, center of the community, burns down. A mid air crash near the Quilaks, mountains a few minutes flight on from Paddy Murphy’s airstrip. Murphy’s sold his claim and up and left. But then there’s a mysterious extra dead body at the crash sit. What’s going on?

Duane Jackson, the new post master, warns Kate about the new owners of Demetri Totemoff’s lodge?!

And drones! I’ve had my reservations about them but post this read they’re now amplified. 

What’s going on is exactly what Kate Shugak and her partner Jim are trying to find out, accompanied of course by Mutt, Kate’s half-Husky, half-Arctic grey wolf companion.

It’s off season and these events would be hard to match even at the height of activity in the Park.

An Aria & Aries ARC via NetGalley                                  

Many thanks to the author and publisher.