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Cold Day for Murder finished

I will read more by Stabenow.  This was very good on Alaska tensions between Native Americans, whites, Federal land administrators, park rangers.  The last frontier with many different visions of how best to manage it.  The "murder mystery" part was weaker.  Forest Ranger goes missing, then the man who sets out to find him goes missing.  Both murdered by old guy who is Kate Shugak's sort of surrogate granddad.  It was pretty obvious that he was the murderer.  The final scene with her grandmother who accuses Kate of deserting her Native American heritage was very good, showing the pull in different directions and the lack of an obvious "right" answer.

Ending scene for my failing memory.  Kate goes down into mine to confirm that the bodies are there.  Abel sort of tries to kill her; the elevator she is in fails.  Her lover, Jack, saves her.  Kate confronts Abel. He again threatens to kill her.  She walks away, his gun trained on her.  Gunshot . . . he has killed himself because he can't kill this girl who is like a granddaughter to him.

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