Review
A Deeper Sleep is the fifteen volume in
the Kate Shugak series, so the series is likely to be familiar
to many readers at this point. However, the nature of series
such as this is that unless the author becomes a seriously
heavy-weight household name there are always far more people who
have yet to discover her than already know her; and the absence
of such a prolific and well-thought of author from BookBrowse's
lists was something that needed to be rectified!
The fifteenth installment has been a surprisingly long time
coming - after turning out at least one book a year between 1992
and 2004, Stabenow took a 2 year hiatus to work on her first
standalone novel,
Blindfold Game (2006), a rip-roaring
sea-going adventure/political thriller, which launched her on to
the New York Times...
Beyond the Book
Dana Stabenow was born in Anchorage,
Alaska on March 27, 1952, and raised on
a 75-foot fish tender in the Gulf of
Alaska. She graduated from
Seldovia High School in 1969 and put
herself through college working as an
egg grader, bookkeeper and expediter for
Whitney-Fidalgo Seafoods in Anchorage.
She received a B.A. in journalism from
the University of Alaska in 1973, after
which she says that she spent "one more
summer knee-deep in humpies (a type of
small salmon) and blew everything I
earned on a four-month backpacking trip
to Europe". Where she discovered English
pubs,...
