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Author
Series
Kate Shugak volume 11
Language
English
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In Singing of the Dead, the next installment in Dana Stabenow's acclaimed crime series, Kate Shugak hires onto the staff of a political campaign to work security for a Native woman running for state senator. The candidate has been receiving anonymous threats, and Kate, who went to college with two of the staffers, is to become her shadow, watching the crowds at rallies and fundraisers. But just as she's getting started the campaign is rocked by the...
Author
Series
Kate Shugak volume 15
Language
English
Description
Anchorage private detective Kate Shugak and Alaska state trooper Jim Chopin pursue Louis Deem, a man arrested for and acquitted of the murder of his wife, after a witness to the shooting of a woman and her son places Deem at the scene of the crime.
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Series
Language
English
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Kate, a former investigator for the Anchorage D.A. and now a P.I. for hire, is missing after a winter spent in mourning. Alaska State Trooper Jim Chopin, Kate's best friend, needs her to help him work a new case. He discovers her hiding out in Bering, a small fishing village on Alaska's western coast, living and working under an assumed name-- working hard, as eighteen-hour workdays seem to be her only justification for getting up in the morning....
Author
Series
Kate Shugak novel volume 5
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
c1995.
Language
English
Description
Kate Shugak accidentally comes across a corpse in the woodlands of Alaska -- along with a disturbing mystery. The victim was the son of a local preacher, and Kate's investigation leads her to an isolated settlement of fundamentalists, to the remains of a woolly mammoth in a Fairbanks museum...and down a twisted road of secrets and suspicions.
Author
Series
Kate Shugak novel volume 6
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
c1996.
Language
English
Description
Kate Shugak, wanting only to be left alone on her Alaskan homestead, is drawn reluctantly into an investigation of the death of Sarah Kompkoff, a cousin of Kate's and a member of the Niniltna Native Association which is on the verge of taking a critical vote on the future use of an old growth forest.
Author
Series
Kate Shugak novel volume 9
Publisher
Putnam's
Pub. Date
c1999.
Language
English
Description
Kate Shugak and her boyfriend, Jack, lead a group of German tourists into the wilds of Alaska on a hunting trip, but the expedition begins to go horribly wrong when several of the hunters turn up dead, and Kate discovers that bears are not the only animals being hunted in the bush.
Author
Series
Kate Shugak novel volume 1
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
1992.
Language
English
Description
When a National Park ranger is reported missing and the man sent to find him disappears as well, former investigator Kate Shugak decides to brave the cold wilderness of north Alaska to crack the case.
Author
Series
Kate Shugak novel volume 3
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
Description
Attorney Kate Shugak gets an undercover job working on an Alaskan fishing boat in order to discover why two crew members mysteriously disappeared.
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Series
Language
English
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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...
12) A night too dark
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
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Description
When a man believed to have committed suicide reappears from the wilderness, Aleut private investigator Kate Shugak and Trooper Jim Chopin struggle to identify the remains of a mysterious victim, a case that is complicated by political factors at the local gold mine.
13) Though not dead
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Inheriting a homestead from her late uncle, a stunned Kate Shugak receives a cryptic letter from him imploring her to discover his father's fate, a mystery involving a priceless tribal artifact for which Kate is targeted by murderous attacks.
14) A grave denied
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Series
Language
English
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Everyone knew Len Dreyer, a handyman for hire in the Park near Niniltna, Alaska, but no one knew anything else about him. Even Kate Shugak hired him to thin the trees on her 160-acre homestead and was planning to ask him to help build a small second cabin on her property for Johnny Morgan, a teenaged boy in her care. But she, the Park's unofficial p.i., seems to have know less about him than anyone. Alaska is a place where anybody can bury his history...
15) Bad blood
Author
Series
Kate Shugak volume 20
Language
English
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Description
The villages of Kushtaka and Kuskulana sit across the river from each other, but Kuskulana's always thrived while Kushtaka is slowly dying out. One hundred years of bad blood between the communities threaten to come to a boil when the body of a young Kushtaka ne'er-do-well is found dead - and questions of love, loyalty, and revenge rise to the surface. Could this one, unexplained death ignite an all-out war? When a second murder that looks suspiciously...
Author
Series
Kate Shugak volume 21
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Description
Kate Shugak is a native Aleut working as a private investigator in Alaska. She's 5'1" tall, carries a scar that runs from ear to ear across her throat, and owns a half-wolf, half-husky dog named Mutt. Resourceful, strong-willed, defiant, Kate is tougher than your average heroine and she needs to be, to survive the worst the Alaskan wilds can throw at her. And throw their worst the wilds have: Kate and Mutt have both been shot.
17) So sure of death
Author
Series
[Liam Campbell mystery] volume 2
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c1999.
Language
English
Description
Fire and Ice, the first Liam Campbell mystery, was named by Library Journal as Best Mystery of 1998. Now Campbell is back to uncover the icy heart of a deadly family secret.
Author
Series
Kate Shugak volume 23
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A mid-air collision in the Alaskan wilderness between two small aircraft leaves ten people dead. Was it a bird strike, pilot error... or premeditated murder? Then an eleventh body is found in the wreckage: a man shot gangland style, twice in the chest and once in the head. In an investigation that reaches to the highest levels of government, justice may not be served, but Kate Shugak is determined that the truth will out, even at the risk of her life...
19) No fixed line
Author
Series
Kate Shugak volume 22
Language
English
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Description
"'... though there is no fixed line between wrong and right, There are roughly zones whose laws must be obeyed.' ... It is New Year's Eve, nearly six weeks into an off-and-on blizzard that has locked Alaska down, effectively cutting it off from the outside world. But now there are reports of a plane down in the Quilak mountains. With the National Transportation Safety Board unable to reach the crash site, ex-Trooper Jim Chopin is pulled out of retirement...
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