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Hunters Moon - [9] Kate Shugak mystery by Dana Stabenow
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Hunters Moon - [9] Kate Shugak mystery by Dana Stabenow
Hunters Moon - [9] Kate Shugak mystery by Dana Stabenow

At Taiga Lodge, George Perry's exclusive big-game hunting camp 125 miles northeast of Anchorage, Alaska, the price of admission has a unique flavor. "The charges depend on the customer's attitude," George tells Kate Shugak, who's working as one of his assistant guides. "The more they piss me off, the higher the price." Which means the party of German computer executives that Kate and her colleagues are looking after will be lucky to go home with any money at all. More interested in firing off their expensive guns than in the sport of hunting moose, these guys are a danger to themselves and anyone else within range. But when human bodies start to outnumber moose-head trophies, the resourceful Aleut Indian Kate realizes that the deaths have more to do with financial and moral crimes back home in Germany than accidents in Alaska. Hunter's Moon, Dana Stabenow's ninth installment in the excellent Kate Shugak series, is enriched with the intricate details of everyday Alaskan life. The author follows the lives of ordinary people as they try to survive the harshly majestic environment as best they can. She shows how people can be tempered and improved by the rugged country, or bent by it to the breaking point. Kate herself might occasionally acquire the mythic proportions of a fictional heroine, but she also embodies the pain and human frailty that make her instantly recognizable as one of us, no matter where we live.

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Tags: Shugak, Hunters, hunting, Alaska, people
Midnight Come Again - [10] Kate Shugak mystery by Dana Stabenow
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 Midnight Come Again - [10] Kate Shugak mystery by Dana Stabenow
Midnight Come Again - [10] Kate Shugak mystery by Dana Stabenow
Kate's tough life took a tragic turn  in last year's Hunter's Moon. In this ninth entry in the award-winning series, a guilty, inconsolable Kate, impulsively leaving her Alaska bush home for a coastal fishing village, goes to work incognito for Baird Air, a cargo airline. At Baird, she soon runs into Alaska State Trooper Jim Chopin, a friend who's on an undercover job for the FBI. This is only one of several plot-churning coincidences in an otherwise poignant and gripping novel featuring breathtaking descriptions of natural scenery and incisive depiction of Alaskan natives caught between traditional and modern cultures.

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Tags: Baird, Alaska, Stabenow, Midnight, Shugak
A Taint in the Blood - [14] Kate Shugak mystery by Dana Stabenow
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A Taint in the Blood - [14] Kate Shugak mystery by Dana Stabenow
A Taint in the Blood - [14] Kate Shugak mystery by Dana Stabenow

A flash (fire) from the past is the heart of the newest Kate Shugak murder mystery. As ever, Alaskan author Dana Stabenow expertly weaves the place and its politics into the tale. Kate goes South to Anchorage to investigate a 31 year cold case of arson/murder, angering one of Alaska's most powerful families. Longtime readers of this series will miss Kate's friends and family back in The Park ("twenty million acres, almost four times the size of Denali National Park but with less than one percent of the tourists,") but this foray into the bright lights of the big city shows that you can take the girl out of The Park, but you can't take The Park out of the girl.

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Tags: Shugak, Stabenow, mystery, Taint, Blood
A Fine and Bitter Snow - [12] Kate Shugak mystery by Dana Stabenow
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A Fine and Bitter Snow - [12] Kate Shugak mystery by Dana Stabenow
A Fine and Bitter Snow - [12] A Kate Shugak mystry by Dana Stabenow

The well-known Alaskan P.I. finds herself in the middle of a volatile situation involving proposed drilling for oil in a wildlife preserve. A ranger there is fired for political reasons, and then an important conservationist is poisoned. Be sure to have this on hand.

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Tags: Bitter, Stabenow, Shugak, reasons, political
A Deeper Sleep - [15] Kate Shugak mystery by Dana Stabenow
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A Deeper Sleep - [15] Kate Shugak mystery by Dana Stabenow
A Deeper Sleep - [15] Kate Shugak mystery by Dana Stabenow

This is the latest Dana Stabenow novel featuring Kate Shugak, the Aleutian detective. All the elements that have made the author's signature Kate Shugak crime series successful shine in this 15th entry (after 2004's A Taint in the Blood): Kate's personal growth as a woman and as an investigator; the Alaskan environment in all its unforgiving beauty; and a mystery whose solution remains in doubt until the end. The story opens with a brutal murder. The culprit, Louis Deem, who has managed to avoid justice for past crimes, is so odious that his presence is a cancer in the little Niniltna community Kate calls home. Stabenow's rich cast of supporting characters include natives and longtime settlers as well as those newcomers so unprepared that Kate refers to them as committing "suicide by Alaska." There is rough humor, a rich heritage of the community necessary for survival, and at the same time a remarkable tolerance for the many idiosyncrasies of those attracted to the harsh realities of Alaskan life. Kate Shugak is becoming a leader among her people and is already a leader in the sorority of women detectives.

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Tags: Shugak, Stabenow, mystery, leader, community