When an abandoned pickup truck complete with suicide note leads a search party to find human remains that have clearly served as a snack for a bear, case closed--suicide by Alaska. But things get complicated when the dead man stumbles out of the wilderness and onto Kate's homestead weeks later. Kate and Trooper Jim Chopin must unravel the story of the man and the body, whoever he is, which is wrapped up in the politics of the Suulutaq Mine, a gold...

Anchorage private detective Kate Shugak and Alaska state trooper Jim Chopin pursue Louis Deem, a man arrested for and acquitted of the murder of his wife, after a witness to the shooting of a woman and her son places Deem at the scene of the crime.

On the first day of spring a young mans fancy turns to thoughts of massacre when he takes a .30-06 and kills nine of his neighbors in the Park. Or did he kill only eight? And if so, who killed the ninth victim, and why? It's up to Kate to find out.

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. After a forest fire, Kate ventured into the charred woodlands to look for wild mushrooms. Instead she found a corpse--and a disturbing mystery. The victim was the son of a local preacher, and Kate's investigation...

Kate Shugak, a former detective with the Anchorage District Attorney's office, is called out of her self-imposed isolation when she is recruited to find out what happened to a young national park ranger who disappeared during the Alaskan winter along with an investigator sent in to check on him.

In Alaska, PI Kate Shugak, who has always shied from tribal politics, is forced to become involved by a murder. The victim is a native councilor attending a conference on oil exploration of native lands.

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.

Everyone knew Len Dreyer, a handyman for hire in the Park near Niniltna, Alaska, but no one knew anything else about him. Even Kate Shugak hired him to thin the trees on her 160-acre homestead and was planning to ask him to help build a small second cabin on her property for Johnny Morgan, a teenaged boy in her care. But she, the Park's unofficial p.i., seems to have know less about him than anyone. Alaska is a place where anybody can bury his history...

Kate Shugak investigates the murder of a researcher working for a the campaign of an Alaskan state senate candidate. She discovers a connection to a murder committed during the Klondike Gold Rush of 1915.

Hired by Charlotte Mauravieff, who wants to clear her mother's name of the arson fire that killed one of her brothers, private investigator Kate Shugak finds the case complicated by someone who wants the truth to stay hidden.