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Author
Series
Kate Shugak mysteries volume 22
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
"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 NTSB (National Transportation Safety Board-responsible for investigating aviation incidents) unable to reach the crash site, ex-Trooper Jim Chopin is pulled out of retirement to try to identify the aircraft, collect the corpses,...
Author
Series
Kate Shugak mysteries volume 16
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
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Description
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.
Author
Series
Kate Shugak mysteries volume 15
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Kate Shugak mysteries volume 21
Publisher
Head of Zeus
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Kate Shugak mysteries volume 12
Language
English
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Description
The possibility of drilling for oil in an Alaskan wildlife preserve near the home of private investigator Kate Shugak has battle lines drawn. When a ranger loses his job for political reasons and a passionate conservation spokesperson is found poisoned, the war begins in earnest.
Author
Series
Kate Shugak mysteries volume 13
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Series
Publisher
Head of Zeus
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Restationed 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...
Author
Series
Kate Shugak mysteries volume 17
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Formats
Description
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...
Author
Series
Kate Shugak mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
1994.
Language
English
Description
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.
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Series
Language
English
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Once, Kate Shugak was the star investigator of the Anchorage D.A.'s office. Now she's gone back to her Aleut roots in the far Alaska north--where her talent for detection makes her the toughest crime-tracker in that stark and mysterious land. After a forest fire, Kate ventured into the charred woodlands to look for wild mushrooms. Instead she found a corpse--and a disturbing mystery. The victim was the son of a local preacher, and Kate's investigation...
Author
Series
Kate Shugak mysteries volume 9
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Kate Shugak investigates murder among a party of German big-game hunters she is guiding in Alaska. In no time she is asking herself, did these people come to hunt, or is the hunt a front for something more sinister. By the author of Killing Grounds.
Author
Series
Kate Shugak mysteries volume 11
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
Kate Shugak investigates the murder of a researcher working for a the campaign of an Alaskan state senate candidate. She discovers a connection to a murder committed during the Klondike Gold Rush of 1915.
Author
Series
Kate Shugak mysteries volume 10
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Kate Shugak comes out of hiding in the woods of Alaska to help her longtime friend Jim Chopin solve a dangerous case.
16) Though not dead
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
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.
Author
Series
Kate Shugak mysteries volume 14
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Hired by Charlotte Mauravieff, who wants to clear her mother's name of the arson fire that killed one of her brothers, private investigator Kate Shugak finds the case complicated by someone who wants the truth to stay hidden.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
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