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Dana Stabenow
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Kate Shugak mysteries volume 18
Pub. Date
c2011
Description
The demise of 89-year-old Samuel "Old Sam" Dementieff, Kate Shugak's friend, relative, and mentor, triggers a deadly treasure hunt in Edgar-winner Stabenow's brilliant 18th novel to feature the feisty Alaska detective (after 2010's A Night Too Dark). Through flashbacks, Stabenow covers key events in Sam's life and Alaska's history, from the devastating flu epidemic of 1918 to the state's newest and biggest gold mine, the Suulutaq. Sam's service during...
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Coast Guard volume 1
Pub. Date
2006
Description
Hugh Rincon and Sara Lange are Alaska natives who, despite being married, have careers that keep them apart: Sara is executive officer on a Coast Guard cutter in Alaskan waters; Hugh gathers information for the CIA, a continent away. When Hugh's discovery of a terrorist plot to drop a dirty bomb on an Alaskan city isn't taken seriously by his own agency, he realizes that it's up to him to save his wife and protect the people in a place he still holds...
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Silk and Song volume 3
Pub. Date
2015
Description
"The Land Beyond is the third and final novel in Dana Stabenow's Silk and Song trilogy. The story began in Everything Under the Heavens, when 16-year old Johanna fled Cambaluc--and her murderous stepmother--joining her uncle's westbound caravan on the Silk Road. Their journey has taken them across an entire continent. And now to the land beyond the sea."--publisher.
46) Silk and song
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Pub. Date
2017.
Description
In Beijing, 1322 Sixteen-year-old Wu Johanna is the granddaughter of the legendary trader Marco Polo. In the wake of her father's death, Johanna finds that lineage counts for little amid the disintegrating court of the Khan. Johanna's destiny--if she has one--lies with her grandfather, in Venice. So, with a small band of companions, she takes to the road--the Silk Road--that storied collection of routes that link the silks of Cathay, the spices of...
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Pub. Date
c2009
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*Starred Review* Will Alaska's current notoriety, courtesy of a certain vice-presidential candidate, give a bump to this mystery, the latest in Stabenow's Kate Shugak series? It's doubtful if Kate would approve, but any residual interest would be well deserved. While limning a vital part of Alaskan landscape and culture virtually ignored by the recent media splurge, the novel is also one of the best in a series that now numbers 16 installments. A...
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Kate Shugak mysteries volume 15
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
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...
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Kate Shugak mysteries volume 1
Pub. Date
p2011
Description
Kate Shugak returns to her roots in the far Alaskan north, after leaving the Anchorage D.A.'s office. Her deductive powers are definitely needed when a ranger disappears. Looking for clues among the Aleutian pipeliners, she begins to realize the fine line between lies and loyalties-- between justice served and cold murder.
55) Inherit the dead
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Pub. Date
c2013
Description
Pericles "Perry" Christo is a PI with a past--a former cop, who lost his badge and his family when a corruption scandal left him broke and disgraced. When wealthy Upper East Side matron Julia Drusilla summons him one cold February night, he grabs what seems to be a straightforward (and lucrative) case. The socialite is looking for her beautiful, aimless daughter, Angelina, who is about to become a very wealthy young woman. But as Christo digs deeper,...
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[2004].
Description
"Powers of Detection features a dozen tales of mystery and fantasy, set in worlds where sleuths may wield wands instead of firearms— and criminals maybe as inhuman as the crimes they commit." "From a magical boarding school murder to a courtroom where a witch stands trial, from ancient legends of Alaska and Egypt to stories featuring such familiar faces as Sookie Stackhouse and such familiar places as the Nightside, these paranormal procedurals...
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Big Max Higgins ran the outlaw town of Hell's Creek up in the north Montana Rockies ... and he decided to include the nearby town of Barlow in his cutthroat operation. What he didn't know was that Smoke Jensen was there with his wife, visiting relatives. It didn't take Smoke long to rout out the lot of them with angry fists and blazing guns ... but Smoke didn't count on Big Max doing something as daring, desperate, and stupid as kidnapping his wife-and...
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