Kate Shugak is an Aleut who lives on a 160-acre homestead in a generic national Park in Alaska. Her roommate is a half-wolf, half-husky dog named Mutt. Her nearest neighbors are a bull moose and a grizzly sow. Farther off are dog mushers, miners, hunters, trappers, fishermen, bush pilots, pipeline workers, Park rats and Park rangers, other Aleuts, Athabascans, a few Tlingits and the residents of Niniltna, a village perched on the edge of the Kanuyaq River, a 600-mile long, salmon-rich tributary that winds through the Park to Prince William Sound.
Astute Danamanicas (are there any other kind?) will note the recent addition of maps set in the Kate Shugak ‘verse. Said maps were built by cartographer Cherie Northon, also guilty of the great Mnemosynea map.
If you’d like to talk about the maps and the books, you’ll find Blog posts related to Kate Shugak here.
Books in the Series
- A Cold Day for Murder
- A Fatal Thaw
- Dead in the Water
- A Cold-Blooded Business
- Play With Fire
- Blood Will Tell
- Breakup
- Killing Grounds
- Hunter’s Moon
- Midnight Come Again
- The Singing of the Dead
- A Fine and Bitter Snow
- A Grave Denied
- A Taint in the Blood
- A Deeper Sleep
- Whisper to the Blood
- A Night Too Dark