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Summary: Drunks and loners
Review: The novel is the third in a series, and you need to read the previous two novels in order to understand the relationships between the characters. Like other novels by this author, it has a strange title. It is set in Alaska at the end of the 20th century. A bad slump in the fishing industry aggravates conditions caused by harsh weather, dark winters, and isolation. There is alcoholism and related domestic violence. Men beat their wives and parents abuse their children. A large number of people sleep around. The Alaska Bush has also become home to a variety of people ranging from eccentrics to a dangerous psycho.It is September and Wy is flying mail to isolated settlements and preparing to bring out summer people before bad weather. She dicovers a rural postmistress shot to death behind her counter. Events are compounded by the discovery of a murdered miner, his wife missing, and later a murdered recluse. Trooper Liam Campbell is a bit too quick to throw people into jail on flimsy evidence, and does not seem overly concerned about their rights (there is no such thing as ballistics for a shotgun - thousands of guns will produce the same shot pattern). References are made to other women missing in the past, and the case gradually winds forward to a conclusion. As in the previous novel, there is collateral damage. It does not pay to be on the premises when Liam is working on a case. The plot becomes fairly transparent, and the guilty party is known to the readers long before he is known to Liam. At times the story drags a bit when it goes off into side issues. The novel has sexual content, language, and some violence. Parental guidance is suggested for younger readers.
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Summary: Drunks and loners
Review: The novel is the third in a series, and you need to read the previous two novels in order to understand the relationships between the characters. Like other novels by this author, it has a strange title. It is set in Alaska at the end of the 20th century. A bad slump in the fishing industry aggravates conditions caused by harsh weather, dark winters, and isolation. There is alcoholism and related domestic violence. Men beat their wives and parents abuse their children. A large number of people sleep around. The Alaska Bush has also become home to a variety of people ranging from eccentrics to a dangerous psycho. It is September and Wy is flying mail to isolated settlements and preparing to bring out summer people before bad weather. She dicovers a rural postmistress shot to death behind her counter. Events are compounded by the discovery of a murdered miner, his wife missing, and later a murdered recluse. Trooper Liam Campbell is a bit too quick to throw people into jail on flimsy evidence, and does not seem overly concerned about their rights (there is no such thing as ballistics for a shotgun - thousands of guns will produce the same shot pattern). References are made to other women missing in the past, and the case gradually winds forward to a conclusion. As in the previous novel, there is collateral damage. It does not pay to be on the premises when Liam is working on a case. The plot becomes fairly transparent, and the guilty party is known to the readers long before he is known to Liam. At times the story drags a bit when it goes off into side issues. The novel has sexual content, language, and some violence. Parental guidance is suggested for younger readers.
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Summary: Terrible reader for this series
Review: The reader for this book is impossible for me to listen to without gritting my teeth. Maybe this series is better in written form.
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Summary: Best of the Liam Campbell Series Thus Far
Review: This is the third outing for Liam Campbell, Alaska state trooper exiled to Newenham in the Bush when civilians were killed on his watch. He is continues to make the best of a bad situation. As summer ends, there is a rash of killings seemingly unrelated - too far apart, weapons not the same, etc. But, then again, maybe it is the same killer and if it is, Liam's got a serial killer loose in the Bush. Stabenow takes us through each step of the investigation and while she's at it transports us to the Alaskan Bush. This is a well written plot with intelligent, believable characters, a well-plotted mystery, and a satisfying ending. Only a handful of writer write as well as or better than Stabenow!
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Summary: Best of the Liam Campbell Series Thus Far
Review: This is the third outing for Liam Campbell, Alaska state trooper exiled to Newenham in the Bush when civilians were killed on his watch. He is continues to make the best of a bad situation. As summer ends, there is a rash of killings seemingly unrelated - too far apart, weapons not the same, etc. But, then again, maybe it is the same killer and if it is, Liam's got a serial killer loose in the Bush. Stabenow takes us through each step of the investigation and while she's at it transports us to the Alaskan Bush. This is a well written plot with intelligent, believable characters, a well-plotted mystery, and a satisfying ending. Only a handful of writer write as well as or better than Stabenow!
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Summary: Terrible reader for this series
Review: This is the third story in the Liam Campbell series by Stabenow. If you like the Kate Shugak stories you will also like this series. I admit that I jumped in at the third story here but I am now going back to get the rest. Liam is forced to solve a serial murder case though at first no one is sure that it is a serial case. It seems with different weapons and the distances apart that they are not connected. But, as the story progresses you see how they are connected and how eventually things come together. As usual Stabenow also makes the characters very real as well as the difference in the remote parts of Alaska and family values. She describes the setting as well as the lifestyles fantastically. Another winner by Stabenow.
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Summary: The third winner in the Liam Campbell Series
Review: This is the third story in the Liam Campbell series by Stabenow. If you like the Kate Shugak stories you will also like this series. I admit that I jumped in at the third story here but I am now going back to get the rest. Liam is forced to solve a serial murder case though at first no one is sure that it is a serial case. It seems with different weapons and the distances apart that they are not connected. But, as the story progresses you see how they are connected and how eventually things come together. As usual Stabenow also makes the characters very real as well as the difference in the remote parts of Alaska and family values. She describes the setting as well as the lifestyles fantastically. Another winner by Stabenow.
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Summary: 5 Stars
Review: This was my first Dana Stebenow book and I really enjoyed the story line of this novel but I wish I had bought the book instead of listening to it on cassette. The readers voice is, at first, like nails on a chalkboard and I almost stopped listening before I got started. I'm honestly not sure if it got better or I just got used to it. I also found it annoying that the book jacket information was read at the beginning of the tape instead of at the end and that the title and authors name was repeated (along with a few lines of the story) at the beginning of each side of every tape. On the last tape it sounded like the reader was very tired or trying to stretch out the words to fit the tape. While I highly recommend this book I absolutely do not recommend buying the book on tape.
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Summary: Buy the book not the audio cassette.
Review: This was my first Dana Stebenow book and I really enjoyed the story line of this novel but I wish I had bought the book instead of listening to it on cassette. The readers voice is, at first, like nails on a chalkboard and I almost stopped listening before I got started. I'm honestly not sure if it got better or I just got used to it. I also found it annoying that the book jacket information was read at the beginning of the tape instead of at the end and that the title and authors name was repeated (along with a few lines of the story) at the beginning of each side of every tape. On the last tape it sounded like the reader was very tired or trying to stretch out the words to fit the tape. While I highly recommend this book I absolutely do not recommend buying the book on tape.
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Summary: Another Page Turner!
Review: While delivering the mail to small outposts in Alaska, pilot Wyanet Chouinard discovers the body of a postmistress. Wy's lover, Trooper Liam Campbell, has to investigate the murder and also support Wy through a personal crisis involving Wy's adopted son's birth mother and a court order that the woman has allowing her to see her son. Friends of Wy and Liam take the boy to stay at their remote fish camp along with a young girl who has been the victim of domestic violence. Meanwhile, a gold miner has also been murdered and his wife is missing. Liam searches for the wife in connection with the two murders, but the reader knows that the woman has been abducted by the real killer. Yet another body is found and the potential for violence escalates as a winter storm comes on and the kidnapped woman escapes her captor and heads for help in the same area where the fish camp is located. Wy realizes her son may be in peril because the trail of bodies is leading closer to the fish camp. She and Liam (who hates to fly) take off in the storm. The story reaches a dramatic climax at the cabin at the fish camp as several story lines converge. Stabenow makes the reader care about all the characters and especially the victims of the killer.
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