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(0)Dana Stabenow
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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 14
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In this spell-binding novel, A Taint in the Blood, Kate's confrontation with thirty years of secrets and regret-and murder-in one of Alaska's most powerful families shows award-winning crime writer Dana Stabenow at the top of her game.
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
23) 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.
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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...
25) Blood will tell
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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....
26) Better to rest
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"Alaska's finest mystery writer" (Anchorage Daily News) has given readers a hero to cheer for Alaska state trooper Sergeant Liam Campbell is the representative of law and order in the fishing village of Newenham-yet struggles to keep his own life on an even keel. Now, just when his future is starting to heat up, he delves into a case of a downed WW II army plane found mysteriously frozen in a glacier.
Passionate about this work and perhaps more
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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...
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A few years after losing his wife and young son in a tragic accident, Alaska state trooper Liam Campbell has finally begun to make a new life in Newenham, a remote fishing village of proud, independent natives where the currents of loyalty, fear, and violence run deep. Campbell's latest investigation into a seemingly routine homicide a robbery gone bad--becomes something else when the first murder is followed by a second then a third.
29) So sure of death
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Alaskan State Trooper Liam Campbell must solve the murder of seven family members in the small village of Newenham. There are many suspects, but finding the real murderer proves difficult.
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With the long-term success of procedural shows dominating prime-time television, the readership for a forensic anthology extends well beyond traditional mystery readers.
Collected by Martin H. Greenberg — the King of Anthologists — this volume features the following contributors:
Brendan DuBois
Edward D. Hoch
Michael A. Black
Max Allan Collins and Matthew Clemens
Jeremiah Healy
Kristine Kathryn Rusch
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Collected by Martin H. Greenberg — the King of Anthologists — this volume features the following contributors:
Brendan DuBois
Edward D. Hoch
Michael A. Black
Max Allan Collins and Matthew Clemens
Jeremiah Healy
Kristine Kathryn Rusch
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31) Fire and ice
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Alaska state trooper Liam Campbell has been demoted and transferred to the small town Newenham--an ice-bound fishing town with a six-bed jail and a saloon that doubles as a courtroom. Campbell never expected his new job to be easy, but finding his ex-lover crouched over a headless body on the tarmac is a hell of a way to get off the plane.
32) 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.
33) 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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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...
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Private investigator Kate Shugak is 5 foot 1 inch tall, carries a scar that runs from ear to ear across her throat and owns a half-wolf, half-husky named Mutt. Orphaned at eight years old, Kate grew up to be resourceful, strong willed and defiant. She is tougher than your average heroine – and she needs to be to survive the worst the Alaskan wilds can throw at her.
Kate investigates murders. She's worked under cover in the Arctic Circle,...
Kate investigates murders. She's worked under cover in the Arctic Circle,...
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Silk and Song volume 2
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"In Everything Under the Heavens, 16-year old Johanna fled Cambaluc -- and her murderous stepmother-- joining her uncle's westbound caravan on the Silk Road. With her foster brother Jaufre and a few faithful companions, they made it to the rooftop of the world--Terak Pass-- separating Mongol China from the scattered sheikdoms of the Persian empire. Then, disaster struck. In a climactic skirmish, Johanna and her stallion, North Wind, were abducted...
37) Silk and song
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"Beijing, 1322. Sixteen-year-old Wu Johanna is the granddaughter of the legendary trader Marco Polo. In the wake of her father's death, Johanna finds that lineage counts for little amid the disintegrating court of the Khan. Johanna's destiny-if she has one-lies with her grandfather, in Venice. So, with a small band of companions, she takes to the road-the Silk Road-that storied collection of routes that link the silks of Cathay, the spices of the...
38) Red planet run
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Star accepts a commission to explore Mars and gets far more than she bargained for.
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Silk and Song volume 1
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"Raised in a prosperous family of 14th century Chinese merchants, by the age of sixteen Wu Johanna's world reaches from Japan in the east to Tajikistan in the west. It's a world seen from camelback, through tent flaps, and in the cool, shaded caravanserai where travelers and traders gather along the Silk Road. Hers is a world of spice merchants and pearl divers, bandits and troubadours, servants and sheikhs. A world in which trust is more valuable...