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Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Language
English
Formats
Description
“Nik Kane is an old-school gumshoe with classic attributes: former cop, aging but still virile, estranged from family, strong sense of honor, traumatic incident in past, has problems avoiding both the drink and guys with guns. It’s a pleasure to see the archetype done so well.”—The Seattle Times
A beautiful young woman is found strangled, lying at the feet of gifted young legislator Matthew Hope....
A beautiful young woman is found strangled, lying at the feet of gifted young legislator Matthew Hope....
Author
Series
Alaska mystery volume 1
Publisher
Avon
Pub. Date
c1991.
Language
English
Description
The winner of Alaska's world-famous Iditarod -- a grueling, eleven-hundred-mile dog sled race across a frigid Arctic wilderness---takes home a $250,000 purse. But this year, the prize is survival. Only the toughest and the most able come to compete in this annual torturous test of endurance, skill, and courage. Now, suddenly and inexplicably, the top Iditarod contestants are dying one by one in bizarre and gruesome ways. Jessie Arnold, Alaska's premier...
Author
Series
Alaska mystery volume 4
Publisher
Avon
Pub. Date
c1997.
Language
English
Description
As the only law officer in the vicinity, it is Alex Jensen's duty to unravel the twisted skein of lies, greed and lethal secrets that entangles the crew and passengers aboard the Spirit of '98 while on an historic cruise.
4) Deadfall
Author
Series
Alaska mystery volume 5
Publisher
Avon
Pub. Date
c1998.
Language
English
Description
Sleuth Jessie Arnold, a dog sledder, flees to a remote island of Alaska to avoid a stalker who has attacked her dogs. State trooper Alex Jensen tries to find him before the stalker finds her.
Author
Series
Alaska mystery volume 6
Publisher
Avon
Pub. Date
c1999.
Language
English
Description
Well along the trail of the Yukon Quest, Jessie is stunned to learn that a young novice racer she met at the start has been abducted and held for ransom. The girl's distraught father has been warned that no one but Jessie Arnold is to be told-especially not the police. Feeling isolated and alone, Jessie must decide what to do in the face of terrible odds.
Author
Series
Alaska mystery volume 7
Publisher
Morrow
Pub. Date
c2000.
Language
English
Description
Jessie Arnold is burdened with a ruined home, the suspicion of arson, and a houseguest of questionable sanity.
7) Dead north
Author
Series
Alaska mystery volume 8
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2001.
Language
English
Description
With her cabin a pile of ashes and her life in pieces, champion Alaskan "musher" Jessie Arnold has gratefully accepted a friends proposal that she drive his motor home up from Idaho, along the Alaska Highwaya breathtaking, two thousand-mile-long route winding past hot springs, glaciers, and ice-blue lakes. But the idyllic trip takes a dark turn when a teenage hitchhiker brings terror aboard. Frightened and alone, Patrick Cutler disappears...
8) Cold company
Author
Series
Alaska mystery volume 9
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2002.
Language
English
Description
Multiple award-winning author Sue Henry takes us into the heart of America's last frontier with a gripping tale of suspense set in a rugged land that appeals to the adventurous and strong ... and to those who are drawn to darkness. Famed Alaskan "musher" Jessie Arnold thinks she's finally put her dark past behind her. But the excavations on her new cabin unearth a decades-old skeleton entombed in a crumbling basement wall -- along with a butterfly...
9) Death trap
Author
Series
Alaska mystery volume 10
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
Recovering from knee surgery that will cause her to miss the upcoming dogsled racing season, champion "musher" Jessie Arnold feels empty and bored -- so she grabs an opportunity to fill her days manning the Iditarod booth at the Alaska State Fair. But murder becomes an attraction here as well -- an especially brutal one -- when the corpse of a small-time hoodlum slain by a double-blade axe blow to the skull turns up on the fairgrounds. Jessie shouldn't...
10) Lost angel
Author
Series
Nik Kane Alaska mystery volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Faith, the teenage granddaughter of Moses Wright, the founder of the Christian commune of Rejoice, mysteriously vanishes, the elders of the Alaskan commune enlist troubled former cop Nik Kane to help find the missing girl.
11) Capital offense
Author
Series
Nik Kane Alaska mystery volume 2
Publisher
Putnam's
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
English
Description
When a promising young legislator is accused of the murder of a young woman, disgraced ex-cop Nik Kane is hired by a mysterious patron to investigate the case, which is heavily influenced by corrupt forces in the oil industry.
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