The Kate Shugak Novels, Vol. 2(2012)

Marguerite GavinDana Stabenow

Kate Shugak, former investigator for the Anchorage DA, returns in this omnibus edition containing books four through six of the award-winning series.

In A Cold-Blooded Business, Kate goes undercover at Royal Petroleum's North Slope facilities. They've been having some serious problems with the white stuff—not snow, but cocaine—and their highly-paid, isolated, somewhat stir-crazy employees have been overdosing at an alarming rate. Kate's job is to identify the dealer and staunch the flow before more people die. It's never that simple, of course.

In Play with Fire, Kate and friends stumble across a naked, decaying corpse in the woods. Judged death by misadventure by the Troopers, Kate's sense of justice demands that she launch her own investigation, leading her to ask some very uncomfortable questions of a frontier faith community. Questions that might drive someone to kill…again.

In Blood Will Tell, Kate is forced to involve herself in Native politics, attending the annual Federation convention in Anchorage and investigating the deaths of several board members. Opposition to a new development project seems to have been the link tying the victims together, but when Kate poses the question that all detective work begins with—cui bono?—she finds there are more suspects on the list than not.

Also the two Kate Shugak short stories, "Wreck Rights" and "Cherchez la Femme."