A Cold Day for Murder

Publisher Marketing: 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. A Park ranger with powerful relatives is missing, and now the investigator Jack sent in to look for him is missing, too. Reluctantly, Kate, along with Mutt, her half-wolf, half-husky sidekick, leaves her wilderness refuge to follow a frozen trail through the Park, twenty thousand square miles of mountain and tundra sparsely populated with hunters, fishermen, trappers, mushers, pilots and homesteaders. Her formidable grandmother and Native chief, Ekaterina Shugak, is for reasons of her own against Kate s investigation; her cousin, Martin, may be Kate s prime suspect; and the local trooper, Jim Chopin, is more interested in Kate than in her investigation. In the end, the sanctuary she sought after five and a half years in the urban jungles may prove more lethal than anything she left behind in the city streets of Anchorage." Review Citations: School Library Journal 11/01/1992 pg. 147 (EAN 9780425133019, Mass Market Paperbound) Publishers Weekly 05/18/1992 (EAN 9780425133019, Mass Market Paperbound) Contributor Bio:  Stabenow, Dana Dana Stabenow is the "New York Times" bestselling author of the Kate Shugak mysteries and the Liam Campbell mysteries, as well as a few science fiction and thriller novels. Her book "A Cold Day for Murder" won an Edgar Award in 1994. Stabenow was born in Anchorage, Alaska and raised on a 75-foot fish tender in the Gulf of Alaska. She has a B. A. in journalism and an M. F. A. in writing from the University of Alaska. She has worked as an egg counter and bookkeeper for a seafood company, and worked on the TransAlaska pipeline before becoming a full-time writer. She continues to live in Alaska. Contributor Bio:  Gavin, Marguerite Marguerite Gavin is a seasoned theater veteran, a five-time nominee for the prestigious Audie Award, and the winner of numerous "AudioFile" Earphones and "Publishers Weekly" awards. Marguerite has been an actor, director, and audiobook narrator for her entire professional career, and has over four hundred titles to her credit.