A Cold Day for Murder Kate Shugak Novels Other 042513301X 9780425133019 Dana Stabenow

from LisCarey

Kate Shugak left her job as a detective on the Anchorage police force, and retreated to her late father's homestead in a national park in the interior of Alaska. That apparently isn't remote enough, though. Her ex-boss, Jack Morgan, and an FBI agent find her and ask her to take on a case of two m...

from Jim53

This is the first of Stabenow's series of mysteries featuring Kate Shugak. There are now 17 in the series, all set in Alaska, where the author grew up on a 75-foot fishing tender. Kate, once the star investigator of the Anchorage DA's office, has retreated to her grandfather's homestead after a h...

from cathyskye

First Line: They came out of the south late that morning on a black-and-silver Ski-doo LT. Somewhere in the endless acres of "The Park" a ranger has gone missing. No one puts up much of a fuss about it, figuring his body will be uncovered in time for the ground to thaw so he can be buried. But wh...

from buffalogr

A COLD DAY FOR MURDER is the first in her Kate Shugak series--now 20+. It's not overly complicated except for the many characters -- one of them won't be in the next novel, but may pop in after a stretch in prison. The characters demonstrate Alaskan provincial racism very well. I liked the settin...

from sarad

A quick read, and I really came to like Kate's brusque nature and way of relating to people. The solution to the mystery itself wasn't particularly satisfying. I didn't find myself having an AHA moment or slapping my forehead because I should have figured it out. I believe this was the first of t...