Dead in the water
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Two crewmen of the crab vessel Avilda are missing—presumed dead—under very suspicious circumstances. The Bering Sea offers ample means and opportunity, but without bodies, a motive, or evidence of foul play, the DA doesn’t have a case. And so, freelancing again for her former employer, Kate Shugak finds herself working undercover in one of Alaska’s most dangerous professions: crab fisherman. It’s an assignment that will take her from the debauchery of Dutch Harbor to the most isolated of the Aleutians, and if the job itself doesn’t kill her, her unsavory crewmates just might.
Third in Stabenow’s Edgar Award-winning series of Alaskan mysteries, Dead in the Water is richly informed by the author’s own upbringing aboard an Alaskan fishing vessel.
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19 primary books25 released booksKate Shugak
Kate Shugak is a 25-book series with 19 primary works first released in 1992 with contributions by Dana Stabenow.
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I don't know how I finished this before. I guess I have less tolerance for stupid behavior now? I won't say what she did, but when Kate did something very dangerous with no forethought whatsoever, I just couldn't buy it.
In her third adventure Jack has once again talked Kate into helping with a difficult case. This time using money (something she is in need of) as a powerful inducement.
It seems that two young men have gone missing from a crab vessel. Kate signs onto that vessel with the intention of sleuthing out what happened to them. It turns out to be a very tough assignment indeed. Crab fishing is dangerous and the crew is even more so.
This is a nice action-whodunit in which Kate is pushed to, and even a bit beyond, her limits. Also, as in the earlier books in the series, Stabenow gives a bit of the history and culture of the local native peoples, in this case the Aleut Culture, deftly tying it into the story.
Good story; I will read on in the series.
3.5 stars rounded up.
