Dana Stabenow Books in Order

In 1890 New Mexico Territory, Pinkerton detective Clare Wright goes undercover as a Harvey Girl waitress in the rough railroad town of Montaña Roja, hunting the gang behind a string of deadly train robberies while trying not to blow her cover or lose her life.

A nonfiction collection of Stabenow's book reviews, covering everything from crime novels and science fiction to biographies and history. Rather than assigning star ratings, she talks plainly about what worked for her as a reader and why certain titles stuck.

Granted leave to visit Cyrenaica on a family errand, Tetisheri walks into a nest of Roman spies, rival generals and local kings maneuvering on the eve of civil war. As armies gather, she must solve a murder and a disappearance that tie local intrigue to Cleopatra's wider game.

When two small aircraft collide over the Alaskan wilderness, ten people die in what looks like a tragic accident. The discovery of an eleventh victim, executed and hidden in the wreckage, pulls Kate into a case of political manipulation where the official story may matter more than the truth.

When Herminia, Alexandria's most beloved actress, disappears before a major performance, Cleopatra orders Tetisheri to find her. The search drags Tetisheri from glittering theaters to the city's poorest quarters and into a plot fueled by poverty, resentment and the hunger for spectacle.

In post civil war Alexandria, bodies are found standing upright on the harbor floor, weighted to the seabed. Cleopatra sends Tetisheri to learn who they were and why they were killed, drawing her into the worlds of scribes, builders and officials reshaping the city.

Transferred to the quirky town of Blewestown, Liam barely has time to unpack before an archaeologist is murdered at a dig that may rewrite local history. When the remains of a long missing boy are also uncovered, he must balance small town politics, land battles and very old grief.

In this nonfiction companion, Stabenow recounts two extended research trips aboard Coast Guard cutters in the Bering Sea and eastern Pacific, offering an inside look at rescues, drug interdictions and daily life at sea that later informed her maritime thrillers.

In the midst of a relentless New Year's blizzard, a small plane crashes in the Quilak Mountains. Jim Chopin is called out to recover bodies, but instead finds two traumatized children. As Kate tries to learn who they are and who wanted them dead, an accusation from beyond the grave threatens to upend life in the Park.

In 47 BC Alexandria, Cleopatra's trusted fixer Tetisheri is summoned after the queen's previous Eye of Isis is murdered and a shipment of new coin vanishes. Untangling the theft forces her through taverns, temples and palaces where nothing and no one is quite what they seem.

A geologist disappears while prospecting near the Suulutaq Mine, and a group of lost hikers literally stumbles over human bones in Kate's backyard mountains. Still recovering from a gunshot wound, Kate is drawn back into the Park's business as the missing and the dead slowly connect.

Having finally reached the fabled cities on the Middle Sea, Johanna and her ragtag family must navigate Venetian politics, shifting loyalties and a risky new venture that could secure their future. Kidnapping, royal intrigue and hard choices test how far she will go to build a home.

In 1322 Beijing, Wu Johanna, granddaughter of Marco Polo, finds her future in peril after her father's death and her stepmother's scheming. Joining her uncle's caravan, she flees west along the Silk Road, determined to reach Venice and claim a place in her grandfather's world.

Separated from her companions and held in a Persian harem, Johanna fights to regain her freedom while Jaufre, left for dead in the mountains, struggles to catch up. Their journey across Central Asia toward Gaza and the Mediterranean is shadowed by war, betrayal and new alliances.

A long simmering feud between the neighboring villages of Kushtaka and Kuskulana erupts after a young man is found dead in a fish wheel. As accusations fly and another suspicious death follows, Kate must unpick a century of grievances before the river runs with more blood.

When aviation entrepreneur Finn Grant dies in a sabotaged plane crash, nearly everyone in southwestern Alaska has a motive, including Liam Campbell's pilot wife. Liam calls on Kate to go undercover in Grant's world of charter flights and shady freight, where business secrets and family loyalties turn deadly.

Drawn from Stabenow's longtime travel columns, this nonfiction collection visits ferries, fishing towns, Iditarod checkpoints and backcountry trails across the state. It offers an affectionate, boots on the ground portrait of Alaska in all seasons, far beyond standard tourist routes.

After beloved patriarch Old Sam Dementieff dies, he leaves Kate his estate and a simple request: find my father. Chasing the mystery of Sam's missing parent and a stolen Russian icon takes her through a century of Alaskan history and puts her in the sights of someone desperate to keep the past hidden.

When people tied to the controversial Suulutaq gold mine start vanishing, from disillusioned miners to local activists, Kate and Jim fear something more than accidents is at work. A discovered body, and then a missing identity, draw them into the mine's darkest secrets.

A large mining company begins buying up land around Niniltna, promising jobs but bringing tension and protest. After two brutal killings and a series of snowmobile attacks, Kate, now head of the local Native Association, has to decide whom to trust as money, power and tradition collide.

A follow up anthology to Powers of Detection, collecting new tales in which detectives confront ghosts, dragons, trickster gods and even Santa on holiday. Stabenow curates a mix of mystery and fantasy that sends investigators across strange realms in search of justice.

A vengeful terrorist targets a space shuttle launch in Florida, seeing it as the ultimate symbol of American power. As Coast Guard captain Cal Schuyler, astronaut Kenai Munro and FBI analyst Patrick Chisholm try to secure the mission, threads from distant battlefields converge on one morning's countdown.

A forensic themed anthology gathered by Martin H. Greenberg, with an introduction and a Liam Campbell short story from Stabenow. Each tale turns on the science, and limitations, of evidence at crime scenes ranging from high tech labs to lonely back roads.

Career abuser Louis Deem has beaten every charge ever brought against him, including a recent murder case Kate helped build. When a new double homicide suggests he has struck again, Kate and trooper Jim Chopin must find a way to stop a man the courts keep turning loose.

A CIA analyst tracing rumors of black market plutonium realizes a hijacked freighter is headed toward North America, straight into the patrol zone of the Coast Guard cutter Sojourner Truth. With his estranged wife serving as the cutter's executive officer, stopping the ship becomes both a national and personal mission.

A genre spanning collection of sixteen short stories, plus essays, that move from modern Alaska to Mars and a fantasy kingdom. Kate Shugak, Liam Campbell and other recurring characters share space with stand alone tales that showcase Stabenow's range.

An anthology of original stories that blend mystery and fantasy, where investigators wield magic as readily as logic. Edited by Stabenow, it features authors from across the genres exploring murders in enchanted schools, supernatural courtrooms and other worlds beyond the ordinary.

Decades after a wealthy Anchorage woman was convicted of burning her house with her sons inside, her daughter hires Kate to clear her name before terminal cancer claims her. Reopening the case stirs up old money, buried scandals and people willing to kill to keep history buried.

An anthology of essays and stories by women who live and work in Alaska, from pilots and teachers to pipeline hands and river guides. Edited by Stabenow, the collection showcases candid, funny and sometimes harrowing slices of life on the so called Last Frontier.

As the summer ice recedes, a handyman everyone vaguely knew but nobody really knew turns up frozen and shot in a glacier's path. Asked to investigate, Kate digs into Len Dreyer's shadowy past, only to find unexpected danger much closer to home.

A dismembered hand found in glacier ice leads Liam to a crashed World War II transport plane and a mystery frozen for sixty years. Digging into the manifest pits him against his own Air Force colonel father and uncovers wartime secrets some people would still kill to protect.

When plans to open drilling in a nearby wildlife preserve split Kate's community, she tries to stay above the fight. Then a conservation advocate is poisoned and a park ranger loses his job, pulling her into a case where environmental ideals and hard economics collide.

Hired as security for a Native candidate running for state senate, Kate shadows the campaign across Alaska. After a staffer is murdered, her search for motive leads her back to a notorious gold rush killing, where buried history may be shaping modern politics.

A seemingly straightforward robbery gone wrong escalates when more bodies turn up, all linked to old events Liam thought were long past. As the death toll rises, he must trace a pattern stretching back years, even as his growing relationship with Wy makes the stakes painfully personal.

Broken by a personal tragedy, Kate disappears into a new identity in a remote coastal town, hauling freight for a bush airline. When trooper Jim Chopin arrives undercover on a case involving stolen plutonium and the Russian mob, their paths collide in a dangerous investigation.

Still rebuilding his life in Newenham, Liam investigates the slaughter of an entire family on their fishing boat, a case that forces him to confront secrets buried along the coast and the complicated ties between Native villages, commercial fleets and big money.

Kate and her partner Jack agree to help guide a luxury hunting trip for German executives, only to find the remote camp turning into a killing ground. When accidents start thinning the party, Kate realizes someone is stalking both predators and guides.

While working as a deckhand on Old Sam's salmon tender, Kate hauls a despised fisherman out of the water, beaten, stabbed, strangled and drowned. Sorting through feuding families, strike tension and village gossip, she has to decide who hated him enough to overkill.

Disgraced Alaska State Trooper Liam Campbell arrives in the tiny fishing town of Newenham hoping for a fresh start, only to find his former lover Wy Chouinard crouched over a decapitated body on the runway. His first day on the job becomes a test of loyalty and nerve.

In the chaos of Alaska's spring thaw, Kate juggles marauding wildlife, small town feuds, a plane crash that nearly lands in her front yard and, as the last of the snow melts, a corpse that turns a season of mischief into a murder investigation.

At her grandmother's insistence, Kate travels to Anchorage to look into a series of sudden deaths among Native Association board members just before a crucial land vote, uncovering a maze of tribal politics, family rivalries and high stakes development deals.

Star Svensdotter accepts a commission to survey mysterious ruins on Mars, packing up her restless twin daughters for the trip. What begins as a scientific survey turns perilous when space pirates, political intrigue and an enigmatic artifact suggest why earlier missions never came home.

After stumbling over a burned corpse while camping in the Alaskan bush, Kate follows the trail into a closed religious community deep in the forest, where obsession, secrecy and old grudges smolder just as dangerously as the fire that killed one of their own.

Infiltrating an Arctic oil company as a safety officer, Kate investigates a rash of suspicious accidents tied to cocaine running along the pipeline. Between whiteouts, roughnecks and corporate spin, she has to expose a killer without blowing her cover.

Working undercover on a crab boat in the brutal waters of the Bering Sea, Kate hunts for answers to the disappearance of two crewmen. Life on board is deadly enough, but someone on the Avilda is willing to kill again to keep their secrets.

On the first day of spring, a local man goes on a shooting spree that leaves nine people dead, but ballistics show one victim was killed by someone else. Kate must untangle the massacre's true target before the trail disappears with the snow.

Ex Anchorage district attorney investigator Kate Shugak is pulled out of her remote homestead when a young park ranger disappears in the Alaskan wilderness, followed by the man sent to find him. Tracking both missing men forces her back into old loyalties and very present dangers.

Engineer Esther "Star" Svensdotter is racing to finish Ellfive, a giant orbital habitat that will give Earth its first permanent foothold in space, while fending off terrorists, political power plays and a potentially rogue artificial intelligence that could jeopardize everything.

With Ellfive newly independent but deeply in debt, Star Svensdotter heads a prospecting mission to the asteroid belt, hoping to secure the colony's future. Out on the anarchic frontier, her crew faces dangerous rivals, hidden agendas and choices that will shape humanity's expansion into space.