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It's Labor Day in Blewestown, Alaska, and it seems most of the town's 3,500 residents have turned out to celebrate. Not Liam Campbell. He's checking out the local watering hole. He's been in town for about a week when an archaeologist invites him out to his dig site outside of town....

Writing for Alaska magazine, Alaska-born Dana Stabenow revisits old haunts and explores new ones to capture the vital pioneering spirit of her home state....

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....

Guiding becomes a deadly business when Kate Shugak accepts a contract to shepherd a group of German computer executives on an Alaskan hunting retreat....

Someone sabotaged Finn Grant's engine, and virtually everyone in southwestern Alaska has a motive, including his betrayed wife, his bullied children, and Liam’s wife, bush pilot Wyanet Chouinard....

The residents of Alaska’s largest national park are stunned by the death of one of their oldest members, 87-year-old Old Sam Dementieff....

The root cellar is full, the cordwood is stacked, the oil drums are filled and there’s a freshly-butchered moose in her cache, but Kate Shugak must leave her cabin and head into the chaos of Anchorage....

When winter's done, but spring has not yet fully sprung, much of Alaska turns to slush. Locally, it's called "breakup," and it's a…messy time of year....

A mushroom hunting foray turns gruesome when Kate Shugak stumbles across a burnt, decaying corpse amid a grove of morels....

string of drug-related accidents at an oil company's rig in the Arctic Circle forces Kate Shugak to go undercover....

It's fishing season, and Kate Shugak is working with Old Sam aboard the fish tender Freya when Cal Meany floats up dead....

Liam had his hands clenched around the edge of his seat and with every muscle strained upward, keeping that plane in the sky....

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....

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....

In Alaska, people disappear every day. In Aleut detective Kate Shugak's Park, they've been disappearing a lot lately. Hikers head into the wilderness unprepared and get lost. Miners quit without notice at the busy Suulutaq Mine. Suicides leave farewell notes and vanish....

Sixteen-year-old Johanna flees Cambaluc in 1322, following the murder of her father and the murderous intentions of her stepmother, accompanied by her sister and wise woman Shasha, and by Jaufre, an orphan of the Road who has been raised to be her companion - and who hopes to become more....

In Everything Under the Heavens, 16-year-old Johanna fled Cambaluc - and her murderous stepmother - joining her uncle's westbound caravan on the Silk Road. With her foster brother Jaufre and a few faithful companions, they made it to the rooftop of the world.... 

Kate Shugak is a native Aleut working as a private investigator in Alaska....

Three relatively quiet months have passed since Trooper Liam Campbell was assigned to the remote post of Newenham....

"When the Betelgeuse message was detected, it changed a lot of things on Earth. We began to look seriously outward with deliberate calculation....