A Taint in the Blood pdf

Dana Stabenow (née le 27 mars 1952 à Anchorage, en Alaska) est une auteure américaine de romans de science-fiction, de polar/crime, de suspense/thriller et d'aventures historiques. a été élevée par sa mère célibataire qui vivait et travaillait sur une offre de pêche dans le golfe d'Alaska et présente de nombreuses descriptions de la géographie, de la géologie, de la météo et de la faune de l'Alaska. Stabenow a obtenu un BA en journalisme de l'Université d'Alaska en 1973 et, après avoir décidé de s'essayer en tant qu'auteur, elle s'est ensuite inscrite au programme MFA de l'UAA. Son premier roman, Second Star, a été acheté par Ace Science Fiction en 1990. Il a été suivi de deux autres livres de science-fiction. Son premier mystère Kate Shugak, A Cold Day for Murder, a remporté le prix Edgar du meilleur livre de poche original en 1993. Son mystère Kate Shugak 2011, Bien que pas mort, a reçu le prix Nero 2012. En 2007, Stabenow a été nommé artiste de l'année en Alaska en les Prix du gouverneur pour les arts et les sciences humaines. En 2011, Stabenow a écrit sur son blog un article informatif sur ses expériences de lecture d'enfance et comment celles-ci l'ont influencée à écrire des romans policiers.

A Taint in the Blood pdf par Dana Stabenow

Thirty-one years ago in Anchorage, Alaska, Victoria Pilz Bannister Muravieff was convicted of murdering her seventeen-year-old son William. The jury returned a quick verdict of guilty, believing the prosecutor's claims that she had set fire to her own home with both her sons inside; William died and the other, Oliver, narrowly escaped. Victoria was sentenced to life in prison without parole, and though she pled not guilty at the trial, she never again denied her guilt.
Now her daughter, Charlotte Muravieff, has hired Kate Shugak to clear her mother's name. Her daughter has always believed in her innocence, and now that Victoria has been diagnosed with terminal cancer, Charlotte wants her free. Kate is the only p.i. Charlotte can find who's willing to take such a long-shot case. Kate, on the other hand, is only willing because she's suddenly a single parent to a teenager, a teenager she hopes will decide to go to college. Besides, it can't be bad to do a favor for the Bannister family, one of the wealthiest and most prominent families in Alaska's short history.
As Kate begins an investigation, Victoria protests, refusing to cooperate. But soon it seems she isn't the only one who wants to leave the past in the past. In this spell-binding novel, Kate's confrontation with thirty years of secrets and regret-and murder-in one of Alaska's most powerful families shows award-winning crime writer Dana Stabenow at the top of her game.
"My mother was convicted of killing my brother." Kate absorbed this in silence for a moment. Okay, even she had to admit that this was a bit out of the ordinary. If anything, it made her even less inclined to listen to Charlotte's sob story, but the other woman was still drinking Kate's coffee, so she said, "How?" "They said she burned down the house with him in it." Arson, Kate thought. One of the easiest crimes to detect, given the current state of forensic technology. It was next to impossible to hide even the most minuscule remnants of a timer, no matter how unsophisticated, from an experienced arson detective with a good lab tech behind him, to say nothing of the dogs trained to sniff out accelerants. "How did they decide it was her?" Now that the worst of the story was out, Charlotte was eager to speak. "It mostly circumstantial. She lived in the house with us, she'd just taken out insurance policies on all our lives"