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Kate Shugak mysteries volume 19
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2012.
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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.
2) 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 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.
4) 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.
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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...
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Alaska state trooper Liam Campbell is slowly making a home for himself in Newenham. Life is peaceful, until Campbell's girlfriend discovers a murder at a remote post office. At first it seems a random assault; but then another woman disappears after her husband is killed at their gold mining claim. When he connects the crimes with a twenty-year-old string of missing women, Campbell knows he's facing a serial killer.
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When hunters stumble across a desiccated human hand clutching an incredibly rare coin, Liam Campbell is called in. The discovery leads him to the broken remains of a World War II-era transport plane emerging from the face of a calving glacier. For some sixty years the glacier has held its secrets close: Who was on the ill-fated flight? What were they doing? 74-year-old Lydia Tompkins might have had the answers Campbell needed, but now she's dead too...murdered...
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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 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 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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A fishing boat is found adrift, burned down, with seven charred bodies aboard. Is it a terrible accident, or was the fire covering up something else? And then a young archaeologist assistant is gruesomely murdered at a remore dig site. With eight dead, things are getting out of hand--and Liam is left following a trail of false leads and false hopes.
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Detective Cara Kennedy volume 01
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"A stranded detective tries to solve a murder in a tiny Alaskan town where everyone winters in the same high-rise building, in this gripping debut by Academy Award-nominated screenwriter Iris Yamashita. When a local teenager discovers a severed hand and foot washed up on the shore of the small town of Point Mettier, Alaska, Cara Kennedy is on the case. A detective from Anchorage, she has her own reasons for investigating the possible murder in this...
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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.
14) Shadows at dusk
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Missing in Alaska volume 2
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"Montana Detective Trevor West is desperate to learn what happened to his sister, who went missing in Alaska over a year ago, leaving nothing but a few photographs as clues to her whereabouts. At the advice of Police Chief Autumn Long, Trevor enlists the help of an experienced bush pilot. If Carrie James can't help him find the places in the photographs, no one can. But Carrie has her own agenda. Grieving the death of her closest friend and the only...
15) Hunter's moon
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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 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.
17) 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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Hardy Boys adventures volume 24
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During their Alaskan vacation, Frank and Joe Hardy help falconer Kate when her beloved peregrine goes missing.
19) Stone cross
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Arliss Cutter novels volume 2
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In a remote Alaskan village, Deputy US Marshal Arliss Cutter searches for a stone-cold killer amid a hotbed of corruption, lies, and long-buried secrets ... Winter comes early to the rural native community of Stone Cross, Alaska--and so does hunting season. Caribou and moose are a major source of food through the long, dark months ahead. But Arliss Cutter has come here for a very different game. A federal judge is receiving death threats and refuses...
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Beth Rivers is still in Alaska. The unidentified man who kidnapped her in her home of St. Louis hasn't been found yet, so she's not ready to go back. But as October comes to a close, Benedict is feeling more and more like her new home. Beth has been working on herself: She's managed to get back to writing, and she's enjoying these beautiful months between summer and winter in Alaska. Then, everything in Benedict changes after a mudslide exposes a...
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