Dana Stabenow
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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 12
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A cold winter in the Alaskan bush becomes even colder when a forest ranger loses his job in a politically motivated firing. Then a conservationist is murdered, and the tensions that have been swirling around the question of whether to drill for oil on the preserve erupt into local warfare. Aleutian PI Kate Shugak campaigns to save the fired ranger and, with the help of Alaska State Trooper Jim Chopin, attempts to solve the murder before more violence...
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Kate Shugak mysteries volume 13
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"Alaska is a place where anybody can bury their history and start fresh, for any reason, and this particular mystery comes to light when Len Dreyer turns up murdered. His body is discovered, frozen solid in the path of a receding glacier, with a hole from a shotgun blast in his chest. No one even knew he was missing, but it turns out he had been missing for months" -- JACKET.
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Kate Shugak mysteries volume 14
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Thirty-one years ago in Anchorage, Alaska, Victoria Pilz Bannister Muravieff was convicted of murdering her seventeen-year-old son, William. The prosecution convinced the jury that she set fire to her home while both of her sons were trapped inside. WIlliam died and the other, Oliver, narrowly escaped. Victoria was sentenced to life in prison, and though she pled not guilty at the trial, she never again denied her guilt.
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Eye of Isis volume 02
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2022.
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After two Alexandrian fishermen discover a skeleton anchored by a cement weight, Queen Cleopatra charges Tetisheri, her new Eye of Isis, to uncover the identities of the victim and the killers.
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Kate Shugak mysteries volume 11
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[2001]
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Kate Shugak joins the security staff for a Native woman running for the Alaskan state senate. The candidate has received anonymous threats--and soon her campaign is rocked by the murder of their staff researcher. Kate must retrace the researcher's steps and delve into the past, in particular the grisly murder of a "good time girl" during the 1915 Klondike Gold Rush.
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Kate Shugak mysteries volume 6
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In Alaska, PI Kate Shugak, who has always shied from tribal politics, is forced to become involved by a murder. The victim is a native councillor attending a conference on oil exploration of native lands.
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Kate Shugak mysteries volume 20
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"New York Times bestselling author Dana Stabenow's latest finds Kate Shugak entangled in a bitter tribal rivalry and murder. 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...
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Kate Shugak mysteries volume 18
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Inheriting a homestead from her late uncle, a stunned Kate Shugak receives a cryptic letter from him imploring her to discover his father's fate, a mystery involving a priceless tribal artifact for which Kate is targeted by murderous attacks.
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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.
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Alaska aviation entrepreneur Finn Grant died in a fiery plane crash. Someone sabotaged his engine, and virtually everyone in southwestern Alaska has a motive. Among the suspects are a betrayed wife, his bullied children, and State Trooper Liam Campbell's wife, bush pilot Wyanet Chouinard. With his wife under a judicial microscope, Liam asks his former mentor, Sergeant Jim Chopin, for help, and Jim quickly brings P.I. Kate Shugak onto the case.
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2021.
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Re-stationed in a remote bush town in the aftermath of a fatal judgment call, Trooper Liam Campbell tackles unexpected challenges in the form of a cutthroat local fishing trade, violent drug dealers, and the murder of an archaeologist who claimed to be on the verge of a great discovery.
Labor Day in Blewestown, Alaska, and it seems most of the town's thirty-five hundred residents have turned out to celebrate- or to cause trouble. Liam Campbell is...
13) Fire and ice
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Stabenow, author of the Edgar-winning Kate Shugak series (Killing Grounds, 1998), masterfully traces the twisting life of Alaska State Trooper Liam Campbell in this series debut. Campbell steps off a plane in the town of Newenham, his new posting, leaving behind him in Anchorage a tattered career, a dead son and a wife in a coma. His first moments in town bring him into close contact with pilot Wy Chouinard, the woman he really loves, and the headless...
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Kate Shugak mysteries volume 16
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Between two suspicious murders and a series of attacks on snow mobilers up the Kanuyaq River, part-time P.I. and newly elected chairman of the Niniltna Native Association Kate Shugak has her hands full.
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In this ninth outing for her popular series heroine, Dana Stabenow adds depth, texture, and vulnerability to Kate's inner life; reveals new aspects of Jim Chopin's character; and introduces Alice's daughter Stephanie, with whom Kate forges a bond of love and obligation that promises the youngster an ongoing role in future Kate Shugak's adventures. An expertly paced and plotted thriller with moody, moving undertones, Midnight Come Again will please...
16) A Night too Dark
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Kate Shugak mysteries volume 17
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[2010]
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Global Harvest Resources is intent on opening the Suulutaq Mine, where substantial deposits of gold, copper, and molybdenum have been found on state leases in the middle of the Iqaluk Wildlife Refuge, 50 miles from Niniltna. When Kate, chair of the board of directors of the Niniltna Native Association, and state trooper Jim Chopin find bear-eaten human remains near the truck of Global Harvest roustabout Dewayne A. Gammons, they assume the remains...
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Following "A Deeper Sleep," her most successful Kate Shugak novel to date, the Edgar Award winner and "New York Times" bestselling thriller writer Dana Stabenow delivers a nail-biting, all-too-real novel of international suspense. A terrorist with a most personal grudge, an FBI analyst challenged to be three steps ahead of the intelligence, a Coast Guard captain assigned to keep watch on that very American of symbols from the water, an astronaut...
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Kate Shugak mysteries volume 4
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1994
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PI Kate Shugak goes undercover to investigate a narcotics ring on the Trans-Alaska pipeline. In the process she discovers another racket, this one in native artifacts. The usual bicultural observations from Shugak, an Aleut.
19) Breakup
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Kate Shugak mysteries volume 7
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"In Breakup, Kate Shugak's loyalties - to the land, her heritage, her home - are put to the test when a series of mishaps lead to murder."--BOOK JACKET. "April in Alaska is typically a period of rebirth and renewal, and after the long winter Kate has nothing more strenuous on her agenda than paying her taxes. But mayhem abounds as the meltoff flows; this year's thaw is accompanied by rampaging bears, family feuds, and a plane crash quite literally...
20) Hunter's Moon
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Come along on a hunting trip from hell in the harrowing ninth entry of Stabenow's (Killing Grounds) Edgar Award-winning series set in the Alaskan bush. It's autumn in the foothills of the Alaska Range, bear and moose season. Kate Shugak and four other bush residentsAincluding her lover, Jack MorganAhave signed on to guide big-game hunters. But the Alaskan guides respect the land and hunt primarily for meat, placing them at odds with their clients,...