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Kate Shugak mysteries volume 15
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English
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Private investigator Kate Shugak is determined to find the evidence to convict Louis Deem, who has been arrested and tried for serious crimes but never convicted. When a double homicide occurs after his latest acquittal, Kate investigates.
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Kate Shugak mysteries volume 17
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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In Alaska, somebody disappears every day. Hunters who head into the wilderness… Fishermen who brave the great rivers… Tourists who attempt to do both. In Aleut detective Kate Shugak’s Park, people have been falling off the grid quite a bit lately. And as she and state trooper Jim Chopin are about to realize, it’s got something to do with the recent discovery of the world’s second-largest gold mine in their very own backyard. A hostile environmental...
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Kate Shugak mysteries volume 20
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English
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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 13
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English
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On an eighth-grade field trip to Grant Glacier in Alaska, students discover a corpse in an ice cave beneath the glacier. With too many cases, State Trooper Jim Chopin hires Aleut PI Kate Shugak to investigate. After discovering that the victim had a secret life, Kate becomes the killer's next target.
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Kate Shugak mysteries volume 12
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English
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Tensions run high when Kate's friend and chief park ranger, Dan O'Brien, is deemed "too green" for them by management and asked to take early retirement. Kate rallies the troops to fight for his job, but before she can really start throwing her weight around, a longtime resident is found brutally murdered. Alaska State Trooper Jim Chopin enlists Kate in the investigation, and it isn't long before she discovers that when it comes to the beauty and...
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Kate Shugak mysteries volume 18
Pub. Date
2011
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English
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Kate and the rest of the Park rats are stunned by the death of Old Sam, Kate's eighty-seven-year-old uncle and foster father. In his will, he leaves almost everything to Kate, including a homestead deep in gold mining country that no one knew he had and a letter that reads simply, "Find my father.' Easier said than done, since Sam's father is something of a mystery: an outsider who disappeared shortly after learning about Sam's existence, he took...
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Kate Shugak mysteries volume 16
Pub. Date
2009
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English
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Inside Alaska's biggest national park, around the town of Niniltna, a gold mining company has started buying up land. The residents of the Park are uneasy. "But gold is up to nine hundred dollars an ounce" is the refrain of Talia Macleod, the popular Alaskan skiing champ the company has hired to improve their relations with Alaskans and pave the way for the mineś expansion. And she promises much-needed jobs to the locals. But before she can make...
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Kate Shugak mysteries volume 10
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English
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Aleutian PI Kate Shugak is hiding out in Bering, Alaska. Her self-imposed exile is threatened when Chopper Jim Chopin, a state trooper from her home village arrives in Bering with a new identity of his own. Tagging along are a couple of undercover FBI agents who think that criminals aboard a Russian fishing vessel are attempting to smuggle stolen plutonium into the U.S. to sell to terrorists. But Kate suspects that the Russians are involved in...
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Kate Shugak mysteries volume 21
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English
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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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Kate Shugak mysteries volume 22
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English
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"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 to try to identify the aircraft, collect the corpses, and determine why no flight has been reported missing....
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Kate Shugak mysteries volume 19
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English
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Alaska aviation entrepreneur Finn Grant died in the fiery crash of his Piper Super Cub. Someone sabotaged his engine, and virtually everyone in southwestern Alaska has a motive, including his betrayed wife, his bullied children, and Liam’s wife, bush pilot Wyanet Chouinard. With few places to turn, Liam asks his former mentor Niniltna post commander Sergeant Jim Chopin, for help, and Jim quickly brings Kate onto the case. Working undercover as—of...
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Publisher
Tantor
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
6 audio discs (6 1/2 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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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.
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Kate Shugak mysteries volume 11
Language
English
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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 23
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"When the body of a man shot gangland style is found in the wreckage of a mid-air collision in the Alaskan wilderness, Kate Shugak, as the investigation reaches to the highest levels of the government, is determined to find the truth, risking her life and the lives of those she loves most."--
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Kate Shugak mysteries volume 14
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English
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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 jury returned a quick verdict of guilty, believing the prosecutor's claims that she had set fire to her own home with both her sons inside; William died and the other, Oliver, narrowly escaped. Victoria was sentenced to life in prison without parole, and though she pled not guilty at the trial, she never again...
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Series
Kate Shugak volume 1
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
1993, c1992
Physical Desc
199 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Up in the cold Alaskan countryside, a young National Park Ranger disappears. When the investigator on the case also vanishes, it's time for detective Kate Shugak to start hunting for answers.
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Kate Shugak volume 3
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
c1993
Physical Desc
217 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
She's a savvy investigator with the cool toughness of Sam Spade--and a smile that could melt a block of ice. Once the star of the Anchorage D.A.'s office, she's gone back to her roots in the far Alaska north. But Kate's taken her talent for detection along...and trouble knows where to find her. There are some pretty tough men on an Alaskan fishing boat...and now one very tough woman is about to join the crew. Kate's working undercover to find out...
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Kate Shugak mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
1995, c1994
Physical Desc
228 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
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...
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Kate Shugak mysteries volume 6
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
1997
Physical Desc
238 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Alaska Federation of Natives convention has convened, and a vote that will determine the future of the tribal lands tops the agenda. Tensions are running high--high enough to raise questions about the recent death of a Niniltna Native Association board member. Kate has always avoided tribal politics. But she is soon drawn into an investigation beset by lies and deceit. And the more she learns, the more she discovers how deeply she is tied to the...
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Kate Shugak mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Beeler Large Print
Pub. Date
2002, c1993
Physical Desc
210 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Roger McAniff cracks along with the ice on the first day of spring and goes on a killing spree, murdering nine and wounding two others. Or so it seems until ballistics tests prove that one of the victims, Lisa Getty, was killed by a different rifle. Shugak's investigation reconstructs Getty's life, uncovering her promiscuity, drug-dealing and endangered species-poaching, but all those leads prove false. The tension level rises when a park ranger is...
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