Reprinted from the members only Alaska Library Association list with permission:
From: Patience Frederiksen Sent: Monday, July 25, 2005 10:24 AM Subject: [AKLA list] Kudos To Kate Shugak
This weekend, I just finished reading Dana Stabenow’s most recent Kate Shugak mystery: A Taint in the Blood. I really enjoy this series, but especially when it is set in Anchorage and when Kate ends up at Loussac Library doing research. In this book, Kate goes to Loussac twice. Each time, she parks in the first row by the fountain, but all the way at the end so she can find her Subaru Forester when she comes out of the library.
Kate uses the microfilm of the Anchorage Daily News to search for details about a murder that took place thirty years ago. Later on, Kate learns some new information from a witness and realizes that she should have asked for help from a reference librarian at Loussac, because the librarian would have helped her find this new info much earlier in her investigation.
My only question is: what place sells coffee near the court building in downtown Anchorage and has the initials: MA? I could not place that restaurant. [Daniel’s note: a later e-mail to the list concluded the coffee place was Moose a la Mode.]
Kudos to Dana Stabenow for her vision of what a library provides and what a librarian can do!
Patience Frederiksen
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