Kate Shugak Books in Order

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.