Kate Shugak Series by Dana Stabenow, Christopher Golden, David Moody, John M. McIlveen, Nate Kenyon, Tom Piccirilli, Sarah Pinborough, Heather Graham, Jeff Strand, Tananarive Due, Michael Marshall Smith, Gary A. Braunbeck, Lauren Groff, Chelsea Cain, Simon R. Green, Sharyn McCrumb, Kelley Armstrong, David Liss, Kevin J. Anderson, Jonathan Maberry, Marguerite Gavin

4.12 · 370 ratings
  • The Collected Short Stories (Kate Shugak #0.5, 13.5, 13.6, 15.5, 17.5, 19.)
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    The Collected Short Stories (Kate Shugak #0.5, 13.5, 13.6, 15.5, 17.5, 19.)

    Dana Stabenow

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 4 ratings · published 2013

    Edgar-award winning author Dana Stabenow is best-known for her Kate Shugak novels, but the unifying protagonist of almost all her writing—be it crime, fantasy, horror, or science fiction—is Alaska. This genre-spanning collection of 16 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 22nd-century Mars to the fantasy kingdom of Mnemosynea... more

  • A Cold Day For Murder (Kate Shugak #1)
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    A Cold Day For Murder (Kate Shugak #1)

    Dana Stabenow

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings · published 1992

    Eighteen months ago, Aleut Kate Shugak quit her job investigating sex crimes for the Anchorage DA's office and retreated to her father's homestead in a national park in the interior of Alaska. But the world has a way of beating a path to her door, however remote. In the middle of one of the bitterest Decembers in recent memory ex-boss - and ex-lover - Jack Morgan shows up with an FBI agent in tow... more

  • A Fatal Thaw (Kate Shugak #2)
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    A Fatal Thaw (Kate Shugak #2)

    Dana Stabenow

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings · published 1993

    On her homestead in the middle of twenty million acres of national Park, Aleut P.I. Kate Shugak is caught up in spring cleaning, unaware that just miles away a man's sanity is breaking. When the sound of gunfire finally dies away, nine of his neighbors lie dead in the snow. But did he kill all nine, or only eight? The ninth victim was killed with a different weapon... more

  • Dead in the Water (Kate Shugak #3)
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    Dead in the Water (Kate Shugak #3)

    Dana Stabenow

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings · published 1993

    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.Two crewmen of the crab vessel Avilda are missing—presumed dead—under very suspicious circumstances. The Bering Sea offers ample means and opportunity, but without bodies, a motive, or evidence of foul play, the DA doesn’t have a case... more

  • A Cold-Blooded Business (Kate Shugak #4)
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    A Cold-Blooded Business (Kate Shugak #4)

    Dana Stabenow

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings · published 1994

    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...Work hard, play hard. That's the credo on the oilfields of Alaska's North Slope, where harsh conditions and long, isolated shifts make for some of the best-paid jobs in the state... more

  • Play With Fire (Kate Shugak #5)
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    Play With Fire (Kate Shugak #5)

    Dana Stabenow

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings · published 1995

    Formerly the star investigator in the Anchorage D.A's office, Kate Shugak now tracks down criminals from her Aleut homestead. But she and her wolf-dog Mutt are taking a June break to pick wild morel mushrooms among the charred trees left by a devastating forest fire. In the ashes Kate also uncovers the mysterious corpse of a naked man. And when she is "hired" by a ten-year-old to locate his missing dad, she fears she has already found him... more

  • Blood Will Tell (Kate Shugak #6)
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    Blood Will Tell (Kate Shugak #6)

    Dana Stabenow

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings · published 1996

    Dana Stabenow once again returns to Alaska, America's last frontier, where her unforgettable Aleut investigator, Kate Shugak, faces one of the most painful cases of her reluctant career. Kate was formerly the star investigator of the Anchorage D.A.'s office; now all she wants to do is enjoy the first weeks of autumn on her isolated homestead. Alone. But duty calls, in the form of Ekaterina Shugak, Kate's grandmother, the imposing matriarch of her extended family... more

  • Breakup (Kate Shugak #7)
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    Breakup (Kate Shugak #7)

    Dana Stabenow

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings · published 1997

    In Breakup, Kate Shugak's loyalties - to the land, her heritage, her home - are put to the test when a series of mishaps lead to murder. April in Alaska is typically a period of rebirth and renewal, and after the long winter Kate has nothing more strenuous on her agenda than paying her taxes. But mayhem abounds as the meltoff flows; this year's thaw is accompanied by rampaging bears, family feuds, and a plane crash quite literally in Kate's own backyard... more

  • Hunter's Moon (Kate Shugak #9)
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    Hunter's Moon (Kate Shugak #9)

    Dana Stabenow

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings · published 1999

    When Kate Shugak guides a hunting party in the Alaskan wilderness, it's open season...on murder.

  • Midnight Come Again (Kate Shugak #10)
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    Midnight Come Again (Kate Shugak #10)

    Dana Stabenow

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings · published 2000

    Edgar Award winner Dana Stabenow has written nine atmospheric crime novels featuring the very prickly, very human Kate Shugak, but her novels also have a scene-stealing costar: Alaska, unforgiving, breathtaking, dangerous, and beautiful. Stabenow's evocation of this wilderness, combined with her talent for bringing characters to life and creating knuckle-whitening suspense, has made her "one of the strongest voices in crime fiction." ("Seattle Times")... more

  • The Singing of the Dead (Kate Shugak #11)
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    The Singing of the Dead (Kate Shugak #11)

    Dana Stabenow

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings · published 2001

    Kate Shugak joins the staff of a political campaign to work security for a Native woman running for state senator. The candidate has been receiving anonymous threats, and Kate is to become her shadow, watching the crowds at rallies and fund-raisers. But just as she's getting started, the campaign is rocked by the murder of their staff researcher... more

  • A Fine and Bitter Snow (Kate Shugak #12)
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    A Fine and Bitter Snow (Kate Shugak #12)

    Dana Stabenow

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings · published 2002

    Change never comes easy so when the news breaks that the new administration oil might be drilling for oil soon in a wildlife preserve in southeastern Alaska, home to P.I. Kate Shugak, battle lines are quickly drawn across the community. But for Kate, who hasn't been able to get back into her daily life ever since her lover's violent death a few months ago, it's a welcome reprieve from doing nothing... more

  • A Grave Denied (Kate Shugak #13)
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    A Grave Denied (Kate Shugak #13)

    Dana Stabenow

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings · published 2003

    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, who was planning to ask him to help build a small second cabin on her property, knew him. But she, the Park's unofficial P.I., seems to have known less about him than anyone.When Len Dreyer's body is discovered, frozen solid, in the path of a receding glacier with a hole from a shotgun blast in his chest, no one even noticed that he was missing for months... more

  • A Taint In The Blood (Kate Shugak #14)
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    A Taint In The Blood (Kate Shugak #14)

    Dana Stabenow

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings · published 2004

    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 denied her guilt... more

  • A Deeper Sleep (Kate Shugak #15)
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    A Deeper Sleep (Kate Shugak #15)

    Dana Stabenow

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings · published 2006

    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, 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... more

  • Whisper to the Blood (Kate Shugak #16)
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    Whisper to the Blood (Kate Shugak #16)

    Dana Stabenow, Marguerite Gavin

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings · published 2009

    A mining company has discovered a rich mineral deposit in Alaska's enormous Iqaluk Wildlife Refuge. Politicos see dollar signs for the state, but Ninilta residents, who live near the proposed site, are split: Will outsiders take the jobs? Will the environment be harmed by pollution? Will roads disintegrate . . . tourists invade? As the new chairperson of Ninilta's Native Association, a job she never wanted, Kate is embarassingly ill-equipped to handle the questions... more

  • A Night Too Dark (Kate Shugak #17)
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    A Night Too Dark (Kate Shugak #17)

    Dana Stabenow, Marguerite Gavin

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings · published 2010

    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... more

  • The Monster's Corner: Stories Through Inhuman Eyes (Kate Shugak #17.25 Siren Song)
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    The Monster's Corner: Stories Through Inhuman Eyes (Kate Shugak #17.25 Siren Song)

    Christopher Golden, David Moody, John M. McIlveen, Nate Kenyon, Dana Stabenow, Tom Piccirilli, Sarah Pinborough, Heather Graham, Jeff Strand, Tananarive Due, Michael Marshall Smith, Gary A. Braunbeck, Lauren Groff, Chelsea Cain, Simon R. Green, Sharyn McCrumb, Kelley Armstrong, David Liss, Kevin J. Anderson, Jonathan Maberry

    Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings · published 2011

    Every hero has a story. Every story has a hero. We are all the hero of our own tale, and so it must be true for legions of monsters, from Lucifer to Mordred, from child-thieving fairies to Frankenstein’s monster and the Wicked Witch of the West.From the point of view of an outsider, they may very well be horrible, terrifying monstrosities, but of course they won’t see themselves in the same light... more

  • Though Not Dead (Kate Shugak #18)
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    Though Not Dead (Kate Shugak #18)

    Dana Stabenow

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings · published 2011

    Kate Shugak will go to the ends of the earth to solve one Alaskan family's epic mystery in this breathtaking novel from New York Times bestselling author Dana StabenowThe residents of Alaska's largest national park are still stunned by the death of one of its lifelong residents: Eighty-seven-year-old Old Sam Dementieff. Dubbed the "father" of all of the Park rats--although he had no children of his own--Sam was especially close to his niece, P. I. Kate Shugak... more

  • Restless in the Grave (Kate Shugak #19)
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    Restless in the Grave (Kate Shugak #19)

    Dana Stabenow

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings · published 2012

    New York Times bestseller Dana Stabenow returns with her most outstanding novel yet, teaming up two of her most beloved characters, Aleut private investigator Kate Shugak and Alaska state trooper Liam Campbell, in the same story for the first time.Alaska aviation entrepreneur Finn Grant died in the fiery crash of his Piper Super Cub... more

  • Bad Blood (Kate Shugak #20)
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    Bad Blood (Kate Shugak #20)

    Dana Stabenow

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings · published 2013

    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, 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... more

  • Less Than a Treason (Kate Shugak #21)
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    Less Than a Treason (Kate Shugak #21)

    Dana Stabenow, Marguerite Gavin

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings · published 2017

    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 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. Two thousand people go missing in Alaska every year... more

  • No Fixed Line (Kate Shugak #22)
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    No Fixed Line (Kate Shugak #22)

    Dana Stabenow

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings · published 2020

    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... more

  • Not the Ones Dead (Kate Shugak #23)
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    Not the Ones Dead (Kate Shugak #23)

    Dana Stabenow

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 2 ratings · published 2023

    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 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 a man shot gangland style, twice in the chest and once in the head... more

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