Mystery in the Beautiful Alaskan Wilderness I listened to the last 10 minutes, purely to delete it and move on to the next book. Normally when I reach the last hour of a book, I am listening anywhere and everywhere. I had to force myself to listen to the last hour, including the big (or not so big) reveal, so I could write a fair review. For a book that was only 5.5 hours, I nearly gave up after 3 hours thinking that the story was going nowhere, but I thought as I was over half way, I would plough through. The synopsis is the most interesting part of this book. Most of the story was filling, linking together a few uninteresting events. If you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from A Cold Day for Murder?Īll of it. I can't blame the narrator for the boring story. What didn’t you like about Marguerite Gavin’s performance? Had it been longer, I would never have finished it. There was no suspense, no build up, no tension, the story just trotted along aimlessly then ended. What disappointed you about A Cold Day for Murder?Ībsolutely no depth to the story or any of the characters. In the end, the sanctuary she sought after five and a half years in the urban jungles may prove more lethal than anything she left behind in the city streets of Anchorage. Her formidable grandmother and Native chief, Ekaterina Shugak, is - for reasons of her own - against Kate’s investigation her cousin, Martin, may be Kate’s prime suspect and the local trooper, Jim Chopin, is more interested in Kate than in her investigation. Reluctantly, Kate, along with Mutt, her half-wolf, half-husky sidekick, leaves her wilderness refuge to follow a frozen trail through the Park, twenty thousand square miles of mountain and tundra sparsely populated with hunters, fishermen, trappers, mushers, pilots and homesteaders. A Park ranger with powerful relatives is missing, and now the investigator Jack sent in to look for him is missing, too.

In the middle of one of the bitterest Decembers in recent memory ex-boss - and ex-lover - Jack Morgan shows up with an FBI agent in tow.

But the world has a way of beating a path to her door, however remote. Eighteen months ago, Aleut Kate Shugak quit her job investigating sex crimes for the Anchorage DA’s office and retreated to her father’s homestead in a national park in the interior of Alaska.

A Cold Day for Murder by Dana Stabenow