A cold-blooded business : a Kate Shugak novel
(Book)

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... An oil company's rig north of the Arctic Circle is doing a brisk trade--in illicit drugs. Hired to break a deadly cycle of drug-induced accidents, Kate goes undercover to find a cocaine connection along the TransAlaska Pipeline. But these dealers know when they're being snowed--and they leave Kate to fight for survival against the harshest enemy of all: the great outdoors...