Fire and Ice

Dana Stabenow

Dana Stabenow

This is the end of the line for Alaska State Trooper Liam Campbell. Newenham is the last police outpost in the United States before you hit Siberia, and it's Campbell's last shot ... show more ▼at getting his life back on track. It's an ice-bound fishing town with a six-bed jail, a busted ATM and a saloon that does double-duty as a courtroom. It's a wide-enough patch to warrant a state police presence, though, and Trooper Liam Campbell is it. He's been sent there in disgrace, busted down from sergeant to trooper in the aftermath of a mistake that cost a family of five their lives. Campbell never expected his new job to be simple, but finding his ex-lover crouched over a headless body on the tarmac is a hell of a way to get off the plane...

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• 689

• Published: 2017

Theft of an Idol

Dana Stabenow

Dana Stabenow

When Cleopatra's most beloved actress disappears, her new Eye of Isis must solve a case that will lead to the darkest corners of Alexandria. From the palaces of Alexandria reigns C... show more ▼leopatra – seventh of her name, avatar of the goddess Isis, ruler of the Kingdom of Egypt – surrounded by riches untold. Through the streets of her great city bustle scholars and sailors, politicians and priests. For those with the means, it is a comfortable life.But not all are invited to share in the wealth of Egypt's first city. For the peasants and farmers, their lives lie in the hands of the gods and the harvest. Unless, that is, they can find other methods to feed their families. Other, less savoury methods.When Herminia, one of Alexandria's most beloved actresses, disappears on the eve of a great performance, Cleopatra sets Tetisheri, her Eye, to investigate. In her search for the truth, Tetisheri will uncover a mystery that will take her to the city's darkest corners...Reviews for Dana Stabenow:...

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• 668

• Published: 2022

A Cold Blooded Business

Dana Stabenow

Dana Stabenow

KATE SHUGAK is a native Aleut working as a private investigator in Alaska. She's 5 foot 1 inch tall, carries a scar that runs from ear to ear across her throat and owns half-wolf, ... show more ▼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. A COLD BLOODED BUSINESS. It's March. Someone is selling drugs to the employees of a Prudhoe Bay oil field company, and the company hires Kate to go undercover and apprehend the dealer. But coke isn't the only illegal substance being dealt...

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• 605

• Published: 1994

Second Star

Dana Stabenow

Dana Stabenow

From the New York Times bestselling author of the Kate Shugak series, Second Star is the first thrilling novel in the hit Star Svensdotter trilogy by Dana Stabenow.Esther 'Star' Sv... show more ▼ensdotter's job is overseeing the completion of the American Alliance's first O'Neill cylinder - a massive space hub capable of supporting thousands of colonists. It's just weeks away from commissioning, and she'll be damned if Luddite terrorists, squabbling bureaucrats, military takeovers or rogue AI will stand in the way. Frontier justice on Ellfive sometimes involves an airlock - you don't want to be on the wrong side of justice. Or the wrong side of Star Svensdotter.The first in Dana Stabenow's Star Svensdotter trilogy, Second Star is a tale of first contact, declarations of independence, and new frontiers.

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• 575

• Published: 2023

The Collected Short Stories and Essays

Dana Stabenow

Dana Stabenow

Edgar Award-winning author Dana Stabenow is best known for her Kate Shugak series of crime novels, but the unifying protagonist of almost all her writing, be it crime, fantasy, hor... show more ▼ror, or science fiction, is Alaska. This genre-spanning collection of sixteen short stories features familiar characters like Kate and Jim, Liam and Wy, and Bill and Moses, but also ranges farther afield than many readers will expect, leaping from modern-day Anchorage to twenty-second-century Mars to the fantasy kingdom of Mnemosynea. Remarkably disparate, but indisputably Stabenow, a writer whose fertile imagination is anything but predictable.Titles in this collection are 'Nooses Give', 'Conspiracy', 'Under the Influence', 'Wreck Rights', 'Cherchez la Femme', 'Siren Song', 'The Eyak Interpreter', 'Any Taint of Vice', 'On the Evidence', 'Missing, Presumed...', 'The Perfect Gift', 'Gold Fever', 'Cheechako', 'No Place Like Home', 'Justice is a Two-Edged Sword', and 'A Woman's Work'. Newly added in this...

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• 566

• Published: 2021

Death of an Eye

Dana Stabenow

Dana Stabenow

Death of an Eye

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• 526

• Published: 2018

Disappearance of a Scribe

Dana Stabenow

Dana Stabenow

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• 503

• Published: 2022

A Handful of Stars

Dana Stabenow

Dana Stabenow

From the New York Times bestselling author of the Kate Shugak series, A Handful of Stars is the second thrilling novel in the hit Star Svensdotter trilogy by Dana Stabenow.Ellfive ... show more ▼Colony won its independence in the One-Day Revolution, but while much has since been forgiven, the colony's debts haven't been. The orbital nation needs minerals and ore to achieve its production goals and start making serious money, and in this solar system, the cost of lifting rocks to orbit is prohibitive; the only viable option is to mine them yourself.Experienced explorer Star Svensdotter leads a prospecting expedition to the Belt, located on the very edges of Earth's colonization of space. It's not exactly unexplored territory: a motley assortment of grifters, drifters and fortune hunters have already made the Belt their home. But Star and her crew soon find that they have a lot to offer the anarchic frontier society, and that there are richer...

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• 453

• Published: 2023

Abduction of a Slave

Dana Stabenow

Dana Stabenow

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• 395

• Published: 2025

Not the Ones Dead

Dana Stabenow

Dana Stabenow

The gripping new Kate Shugak novel by New York Times bestselling author Dana Stabenow. What seems a tragic accident soon becomes a murder investigation as Kate is drawn into a case... show more ▼ of political intrigue.A mid-air collision in the Alaskan wilderness between two small aircraft leaves ten people dead. Was it a bird strike, pilot error... or premeditated murder?Then an eleventh body is found in the wreckage: a man shot gangland style, twice in the chest and once in the head.In an investigation that reaches to the highest levels of government, justice may not be served, but Kate Shugak is determined that the truth will out, even at the risk of her life and the lives of those she loves most.Reviewers on Dana Stabenow's Kate Shugak series: 'An antidote to sugary female sleuths: Kate Shugak, the Aleut private investigator' New York Times'Crime fiction doesn't get much better than this' Booklist'If you are...

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• 371

• Published: 2023

Kate Shugak 01 - A Cold Day for Murder

Dana Stabenow

Dana Stabenow

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• 315

• Published: 2011

Spoils of the dead

Dana Stabenow

Dana Stabenow

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• 223

• Published: 2021

Kate Shugak 03 - Dead in the Water

Dana Stabenow

Dana Stabenow

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• 216

• Published: 1993

No Fixed Line (A Kate Shugak Investigation Book 22)

Dana Stabenow

Dana Stabenow

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• 214

• Published: 2020

A Cold-Blooded Business

Dana Stabenow

Dana Stabenow

SUMMARY: Alaskan private detective Kate Shugak goes undercover to expose the illicit drug trade along the TransAlaska pipeline, but the case is threatened when her cover is blown. ... show more ▼By the author of Dead in the Water. SUMMARY: The Edgar Award-winning author of A Cold Day for Murder continues her success with a new mystery featuring Alaskan P.I. Kate Shugak. Kate goes undercover to get to the bottom of illicit drug trading on the Trans-Alaska pipeline and winds up in a murderous race against time and the elements.

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• 143

• Published: 1995