Kate Shugak mysteries
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"Somewhere in twenty million acres of hungry forest, a ranger has disappeared: Mark Miller. Missing six weeks. It's assumed by the National Park Service that Miller has been caught in a snowstorm and frozen to death, the typical fate of those who get lost in this vast and desolate terrain. But as a favour to his congressman father, the FBI send in an investigator: Ken Dahl. Dahl was last heard from two weeks and two days ago. Not it's time to send...
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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...
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Kate Shugak mysteries volume 3
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There's something fishy about the disappearance of two crew members from an Alaskan fishing boat. Investigator Kate Shugak goes undercover and starts casting her net for clues among the toughest crew on the Bering Sea. And if she doesn't watch her back, she could end up being forced to walk the plank.
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Kate Shugak mysteries volume 4
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Alaskan private detective Kate Shugak goes undercover to expose the illicit drug trade along the TransAlaska Pipeline, but the case is threatened when her own cover is blown and the body count begins to rise.
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It's a crisp, snowless October in The Park. The root cellar is full, the cordwood is stacked, the oil drums are filled and there's a freshly-butchered moose in her cache, but Kate Shugak must leave her cabin and head into the chaos of Anchorage, where the Alaska Federation of Natives' annual convention is being held. Why? Because board members of the Niniltna Native Association have been dying and they are the board members who happened to oppose...
7) Breakup
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April in Alaska is the period of spring thaw, what the locals call "breakup". For Kate, this year's meltdown brings nothing but mayhem. First, the snow uncovers a dead body near Kate's home. Then a woman is killed in a suspicious bear attack. Kate is drawn further into the destruction of breakup--and into the path of a murderer.
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Kate Shugak mysteries volume 8
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While deckhanding on board a salmon tender, Kate Shugak hauls up the body of a widely disliked fisherman whose apparent murder is greeted with great rejoicing. Drafted by State Trooper Jim Chopin to assist in the investigation, Kate draws up a long list of suspects. Meanwhile, Kate's Aleut aunties are mixed up in some shady dealings of their own, which Kate must prove do not include murder.
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Kate Shugak mysteries volume 9
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When Kate guides a hunting party of German businessmen in the Alaskan wilderness, turns out they want to kill not for food or sport, but for the sake of killing. "Gripping and adrenaline-charged . . . razor-sharp suspense and gritty prose."--"Publishers Weekly."
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Kate Shugak mysteries volume 10
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Kate is missing in this tenth novel. She has spent the winter working under an assumed name. Her best friend, Jim Chopin, needs her help on a case and discovers her hiding out in Bering. But before they get into any specifics, Kate is gone. Jim's case is far more complicated and more dangerous than they suspected.
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Kate Shugak mysteries volume 11
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Private investigator Kate Shugak returns to her hometown to protect a Native American woman who is running for state senate, but when the staff researcher is killed, Kate must find out who wants the campaign to end before all their lives are put in danger.
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Kate Shugak mysteries volume 12
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Aleutian private detective Kate Shugak joins Alaska State Trooper Jim Chopin in investigating two brutal attacks against residents of Niniltna Park in southeast Alaska which occurred in the midst of controversy over proposed oil drilling in a nearby wildlife preserve.
13) A grave denied
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Kate Shugak mysteries volume 13
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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...
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Kate Shugak mysteries volume 14
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Kate Shugak agrees to help a young woman clear her mother's name, and sets out to prove that Victoria Pilz Bannister Muravieff did not kill her seventeen-year-old son more than thirty years ago, but her investigation is complicated by Victoria's refusal to help Kate uncover the truth.
15) A deeper sleep
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Kate Shugak mysteries volume 15
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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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Kate Shugak mysteries volume 16
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The inhabitants of Niniltna are uneasy about the gold-mining company buying up tracts of land nearby, an unease shared by P.I. Kate Shugak as she probes the killings of a mine opponent and a popular ski champion-turned-company spokesperson.
17) A night too dark
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Kate Shugak mysteries volume 17
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When an abandoned pickup truck complete with suicide note leads a search party to find human remains that have clearly served as a snack for a bear, case closed--suicide by Alaska. But things get complicated when the dead man stumbles out of the wilderness and onto Kate's homestead weeks later. Kate and Trooper Jim Chopin must unravel the story of the man and the body, whoever he is, which is wrapped up in the politics of the Suulutaq Mine, a gold...
18) Though not dead
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Kate Shugak mysteries volume 18
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The residents of Alaska's largest national park are stunned by the death of one of their oldest members, eighty-seven-year-old Old Sam Dementieff...Even private investigator Kate Shugak. Sam, a lifelong resident, dubbed the "father" of all of the Park rats--even though he had no children of his own--was especially close to Kate, his niece, but even she is surprised to discover that in his will he's left her everything, including a letter instructing...
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Kate Shugak mysteries volume 19
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Aleut private investigator Kate Shugak and Alaska State Trooper Liam Campbell--the heroes of "New York Times" bestseller Stabenow's most beloved series--team up for the first time ever when Liam needs Kate's help to clear his wife of the murder of a wealthy aviation entrepreneur.
20) Bad blood
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One hundred years of bad blood between the villages of Kushtaka and Kuskulana come to a boil when the body of a young Kushtaka ne'er-do-well is found wedged in a fish wheel. Sergeant Jim Chopin's prime suspect is a Kuskulana man who is already in trouble in both villages for falling in love across the river. But when the suspect disappears, members of both tribes refuse to speak to Jim. When a second murder that looks suspiciously like payback occurs,...
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Kate Shugak mysteries volume 21
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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.
22) 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 23
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2023.
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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...