A Cold Day for Murder

The Edgar Award-winning first book in the Kate Shugak series, an atmospheric crime series with intricate storyline, strong characters, arctic setting and plots that zig when you expect them to zag.

Kate Shugak is a native Aleut working as a private investigator in Alaska. She's 5 foot 1 inch tall, carries a scar that runs from ear to ear across her throat and owns half-wolf, half-husky dog named Mutt. Resourceful, strong-willed, defiant, Kate is tougher than your average heroine - and she needs to be to survive the worst the Alaskan wilds can throw at her.

It's December in Alaska and a ranger is missing. It's no great loss to the rest of the National Park staff, they figure he's stumbled into a snowbank and will re-emerge come breakup, just in time for the ground to thaw and them to bury him. But when the man sent to look for him also disappears, Kate Shugak, ex-investigator for the Anchorage D.A. and Park homesteader, is sent in search of them both. Kate's ex-boss and ex- lover, Jack Morgan, convinces her to investigate their disappearances on her own terms, beginning her new career as a private investigator.

About the Author

In 1991 Dana Stabenow, born in Alaska and raised on a 75- foot fishing trawler, was offered a three-book deal for the first of her Kate Shugak mysteries. In 1992, the first in the series, A Cold Day for Murder, received an Edgar Award.