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Kate Shugak mysteries volume 12
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Delve into the Alaskan Wilderness with A Fine and Bitter Snow
Immerse yourself in an exhilarating exploration of Alaska's untamed terrain, where wildlife preservation clashes with the desperate thirst for oil. Dana Stabenow, an Edgar award-winning author, expertly navigates the intricate nuances of this tumultuous dynamic, all while unraveling a trail of horrifying crimes.
Change never comes easy, but it comes just the same,
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Kate Shugak mysteries volume 11
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Kate Shugak joins the staff of a Native woman running for the Alaska State Senate to work security. The candidate has been receiving anonymous threats and Kate's job will be to shadow the candidate. The campaign is rocked when a staff researcher is murdered and it appears linked to a ninety-year old unsolved murder.
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Kate Shugak, a former detective with the Anchorage District Attorney's office, is called out of her self-imposed isolation when she is recruited to find out what happened to a young national park ranger who disappeared during the Alaskan winter along with an investigator sent in to check on him.
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Kate Shugak mysteries volume 9
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The Edgar Award-winning, New York Times-bestselling series by Dana Stabenow set in Alaska. Kate Shugak takes on a murderous hunting party in Hunter's Moon.
For one group of hunters, it's open season on murder...
It's autumn in Alaska: hunting season. Kate Shugak is acting guide to ten big game hunters carrying an arsenal of expensive weaponry. Unfortunately, not one of them seems to know one end of a shotgun...
For one group of hunters, it's open season on murder...
It's autumn in Alaska: hunting season. Kate Shugak is acting guide to ten big game hunters carrying an arsenal of expensive weaponry. Unfortunately, not one of them seems to know one end of a shotgun...
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Kate Shugak mysteries volume 6
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Kate Shugak's family becomes involved in a murder investigation in Blood Will Tell. Fifty thousand square miles of untouched Alaskan forest is definitely a prize... but is it worth killing for? Ekaterina Moonin Shugak, tribal elder and community leader, is a fierce friend and an even fiercer foe. So when she arrives unannounced at Kate Shugak's homestead asking for her granddaughter's help, Kate knows there must be something seriously amiss in town....
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Kate Shugak mysteries volume 10
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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 18-hour workdays seem to be her only justification for getting up in the morning. But before...
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Kate Shugak mysteries volume 3
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Last March, two men disappeared whilst loading supplies on a remote island in the Bering Sea: two million square miles of dark capricious ocean and tempestuous squalls. Their Skipper, Harry Gault, should have been fired, at the least. But six months later he's still aboard the Avilda, and the families of the missing men are making noises about corruption. With the crew backing his version of events, what the authorities need is an investigator who...
9) A fatal thaw
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Kate Shugak mysteries volume 2
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"Eleven days ago, Roger McAniff bought himself a new Winchester 30.06 rifle. Ten days ago he went out to test it. Now nine people are dead. But only eight were killed by McAniff... Stephen Syms. Patrick Jorgensen. Lyle and Lucy Longstaff. Lisa Getty. The Weiss family, John, Tina, and their two children. All slaughtered. Considering she would have been his final victim, private investigator Kate Shugak almost regrets not killing Roger McAniff. But...
10) Breakup
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Kate Shugak mysteries volume 7
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The spring thaw in Alaska brings nothing but mayhem to Kate Shugak: taxes, rampaging bears, family feuds, a jet engine crashing into her backyard, and a dead body under the melting snow.
11) Killing grounds
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It's fishing season, and Kate Shugak is working with Old Sam aboard the fish tender Freya when Cal Meany floats up dead. His reputation as a womanizer, strike breaker, and abusive father ensures that there are several suspects. Ultimately, Kate finds herself in grave danger, as even her aunts join the list of suspects.
12) No fixed line
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Kate Shugak mysteries volume 22
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"'... 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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Kate Shugak mysteries volume 4
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The Edgar Award-winning, New York Times-bestselling series by Dana Stabenow set in Alaska. In A Cold Blooded Business, Kate Shugak investigates a drugs ring at an oil company – at great personal risk...
Prudhoe Bay, Alaska: population 2,000. Approximate number of families: zero. And America's largest oilfield...
In three months, the Prudhoe Bay oil operation has logged half a dozen drug overdoses, and...
Prudhoe Bay, Alaska: population 2,000. Approximate number of families: zero. And America's largest oilfield...
In three months, the Prudhoe Bay oil operation has logged half a dozen drug overdoses, and...
14) Play with fire
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Kate Shugak mysteries volume 5
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"Alaska's worst fire in decades left behind 125,000 acres of razed forest, three feet of ash, and one unburnt corpse. A ten-year-old boy has hired Kate Shugak to find his father. Daniel Seabolt has been missing since the previous summer, but his disappearance has never been reported. The boy's grandfather, the Right Reverend Pastor Simon Seabolt, has forbidden the tight-knit community even to speak Daniel's name. Unfortunately for the boy, Kate is...
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A renegade terrorist with a bottomless personal grudge against all things American targets the most visible symbol of American prestige and power one clear morning in Florida as NASA prepares to launch the Space Shuttle. This time the shuttle carries a high-profile payload and a high-paying visitor on board as a guest, and astronaut Kenai Munro, the FBI special agent Patrick Chisolm and U.S. Coast Guard Captain Cal Schyler are doing everything they...