The Kate Shugak Novels, Vol. 1(2012)

Marguerite GavinDana Stabenow

Kate Shugak used to investigate for the Anchorage DA's office—a job that brought her face-to-face with some of the very worst of humanity. You can only do that sort of work for so long without it getting to you, though… and then, once it does, once it really does, you have to put a lot of distance between you and it. Fortunately for Kate, if there's one thing Alaska has a lot of, it's distances.

So, she's moved back to The Park, to a homestead cabin that's off the grid and a lifetime away from the city…and yet, condo or cabin, Polo or parka, somehow people manage to be bad all over. And though always reluctant, Kate Shugak seems unable to remain uninvolved. She investigates.

Volume One contains the first three Kate Shugak novels—the Edgar-award winning A Cold Day for Murder, along with A Fatal Thaw, and Dead in the Water—as well as the short story prequel, "Nooses Give."