Midnight Come Again

Midnight Come Again (2000) Dana Stabenow

Last year I picked up A Taint in the Blood and thoroughly enjoyed it. But from details mentioned in the book, wasn’t sure if I wanted to go back and read earlier in the series. However, I discovered that Midnight Come Again is set after her lover is brutally murdered, so decided this would be an okay place to start further back in the series. (I have no interest in reading something that depressing.)

Although it’s a Kate Shugak book, we start off in Russia, then the story moves to First Sargent Jim Chopin being ordered to go undercover in Bering Alaska. The FBI suspects the Russian Mafia is acting in Bering, but doesn’t know how or why, so they send Jim (and to FBI agents) up to see what they can discover.

What Jim discovers when he gets to baring is Kate, hiding out under an assumed name. He also discovers that the FBI wasn’t being completely honest with him as to what they were searching for.

I really like Kate. As she’s a mess through much of the book, I can see why much of the story focus (especially in the beginning) was on Jim Chopin. She wasn’t falling apart per se, but she was barely holding herself together, and that’s hard to read for an extended period of time. So this gave us an escape from Kate’s grief, as well as some outside perspective.

And I’ve got the next books in the series ready to order.
Rating: 8/10

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