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Nathan Active mysteries volume 4
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Alaska State Trooper Nathan Active must figure out what connects a dead hunter on a remote Arctic lake with a year-old fatal plane crash in the Brooks Range and a fire that killed eight people.
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Nathan Active mysteries volume 1
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Alaska trooper Nathan Active investigates a rash of suicides in an Eskimo village. The villagers blame a family curse, but Active, an Eskimo raised by whites, thinks a human hand is at work.
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Nathan Active mysteries volume 2
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A murder with a motive steeped in Inupiat tradition. Nathan Active is regarded as half white by Alaskans. He is a state trooper, adopted and raised in Anchorage, but now serving a tour of duty in Chukchi, the village of his birth, where he is called upon to investigate the murder of an Inupiat tribal leader. The victim was killed with an antique ivory and wood harpoon returned to the community by the Smithsonian, in accordance with the terms of the...
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When hunters stumble across a desiccated human hand clutching an incredibly rare coin, Liam Campbell is called in. The discovery leads him to the broken remains of a World War II-era transport plane emerging from the face of a calving glacier. For some sixty years the glacier has held its secrets close: Who was on the ill-fated flight? What were they doing? 74-year-old Lydia Tompkins might have had the answers Campbell needed, but now she's dead too...murdered...
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A fishing boat is found adrift, burned down, with seven charred bodies aboard. Is it a terrible accident, or was the fire covering up something else? And then a young archaeologist assistant is gruesomely murdered at a remore dig site. With eight dead, things are getting out of hand--and Liam is left following a trail of false leads and false hopes.
7) Fire and ice
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Alaska state trooper Liam Campbell has been demoted and transferred to the small town Newenham--an ice-bound fishing town with a six-bed jail and a saloon that doubles as a courtroom. Campbell never expected his new job to be easy, but finding his ex-lover crouched over a headless body on the tarmac is a hell of a way to get off the plane.
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2016
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307 pages ; 21 cm.
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"Nathan Active, top cop in a stretch of Alaskan tundra larger than fifteen of the United States, must figure out what connects Alaska's gorgeous female governor to a dog musher run down and killed by a snowmobile. Nathan's career is on the line as he's plunged into the bizarre family dynamics and outsize political ambitions of the most dangerous woman he ever met." --
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Labor Day in Blewestown, Alaska, and it seems most of the town's thirty-five hundred residents have turned out to celebrate - or to cause trouble. Liam Campbell is checking out the local watering hole in his new town. He's finally made it out of Newenham and is ready for a quiet life with his wife. He has been in town for about a week when an archaeologist invites him out to his dig site outside of town. He's on the verge of a momentous discovery,...
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Kate Shugak mysteries volume 19
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New York Times bestseller Dana Stabenow returns with her most outstanding novel yet, teaming up two of her most beloved characters, Aleut private investigator Kate Shugak and Alaska state trooper Liam Campbell, in the same story for the first time. Alaska aviation entrepreneur Finn Grant died in the fiery crash of his Piper Super Cub. Someone sabotaged his engine, and virtually everyone in southwestern Alaska has a motive, including his betrayed wife,...
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Alaska state trooper Liam Campbell is slowly making a home for himself in Newenham. Life is peaceful, until Campbell's girlfriend discovers a murder at a remote post office. At first it seems a random assault; but then another woman disappears after her husband is killed at their gold mining claim. When he connects the crimes with a twenty-year-old string of missing women, Campbell knows he's facing a serial killer.
13) The big empty
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2018.
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244 pages ; 22 cm
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"Evie Kavoonah, a young mother-to-be, and her fiancé, Dr. Todd Brenner, are on a flight over the Brooks Range when their Bush plane runs out of gas and hits a ridge, instantly killing them both. Chukchi police chief Nathan Active doubts he'll find anything amiss when his close friend, Cowboy Decker, asks him to look into the possibility of foul play. But Evie was like a daughter to Cowboy, who trained her to fly, and he insists there's no way his...
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Alaska mysteries volume 4
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1998
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343 p. : ill. ; 17 cm.
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In July of 1897, the S.S. Portland sailed from Skagway, Alaska, to Seattle, Washington, carrying two tons of Yukon gold--its arrival setting off the famed Klondike Gold Rush. Now, a hundred years later, amid great fanfare and publicity, another ship is recreating the fabled voyage. But this time Death is on board. A true Gold Rush buff, Alex Jensen is thrilled to be representing the Troopers on the Spirit of '98's historic journey down Alaska's spectacular...
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