Search - Breakup (Kate Shugak, Bk 7)

I have read and reread this book. The story line is good, the characters all are well defined as are the rest of the Shugak series, but I find the book too funny for words. I dig this out when things are particularly bad (or I'm in a bad mood) and spend the next few hours laughing. This is one of my all-time favorites!

Stabenow manages to capture perfectly the chaotic feel of Alaska life. I worked up there several summers and it felt like I was back in one of the frontier towns that I remember fondly. This is pretty far into the Shugak series, but a librarian recommended that I start with this book. I found that I did not need to read any of Stabenow's other books in order to fall in love with Shugak and the series. Since then I have pretty much read them all and I would say that none of them quite matches this one. So if you have not read any Shugak mysteries yet, this might be a good place to start.
What's so unusal about this book while comparing it to both others in the series as well as other mysteries, is that it pretty much doesnt have a mystery. Instead what makes this such a fun read is that you are lead on an excursion into the life of the protagonist that is well worth following along upon.