Big Max Higgins ran the outlaw town of Hell's Creek up in the north Montana Rockies ... and he decided to include the nearby town of Barlow in his cutthroat operation. What he didn't know was that Smoke Jensen was there with his wife, visiting relatives. It didn't take Smoke long to rout out the lot of them with angry fists and blazing guns ... but Smoke didn't count on Big Max doing something as daring, desperate, and stupid as kidnapping his wife-and...

There are some pretty tough men on an Alaskan fishing boat -- and now one very tough woman is about to join the crew.

In Alaska, PI Kate Shugak, who has always shied from tribal politics, is forced to become involved by a murder. The victim is a native councillor attending a conference on oil exploration of native lands.

Kate Shugak, an Alaskan homesteader and private eye, is helping her uncle fish for salmon in an estuary near Prince William Sound. Cal Meany, a commercial fisherman, is abusing his family and bullying other anglers, including Kate's aunts. The aptly named Meany is murdered, and Kate's subsequent investigation is made especially hard because her aunts are suspects, salmon season is in full swing, and her lover, Jack Morgan, has arrived from Anchorage....

In this ninth outing for her popular series heroine, Dana Stabenow adds depth, texture, and vulnerability to Kate's inner life; reveals new aspects of Jim Chopin's character; and introduces Alice's daughter Stephanie, with whom Kate forges a bond of love and obligation that promises the youngster an ongoing role in future Kate Shugak's adventures. An expertly paced and plotted thriller with moody, moving undertones, Midnight Come Again will please...

A cold winter in the Alaskan bush becomes even colder when a forest ranger loses his job in a politically motivated firing. Then a conservationist is murdered, and the tensions that have been swirling around the question of whether to drill for oil on the preserve erupt into local warfare. Aleutian PI Kate Shugak campaigns to save the fired ranger and, with the help of Alaska State Trooper Jim Chopin, attempts to solve the murder before more violence...

The story opens with a brutal murder. The culprit, Louis Deem, who has managed to avoid justice for past crimes, is so odious that his presence is a cancer in the little Niniltna community Kate calls home. Stabenow's rich cast of supporting characters include natives and longtime settlers as well as those newcomers so unprepared that Kate refers to them as committing "suicide by Alaska." There is rough humor, a rich heritage of the community necessary...

Global Harvest Resources is intent on opening the Suulutaq Mine, where substantial deposits of gold, copper, and molybdenum have been found on state leases in the middle of the Iqaluk Wildlife Refuge, 50 miles from Niniltna. When Kate, chair of the board of directors of the Niniltna Native Association, and state trooper Jim Chopin find bear-eaten human remains near the truck of Global Harvest roustabout Dewayne A. Gammons, they assume the remains...

Kate Shugak returns to her roots in the far Alaskan north, after leaving the Anchorage D.A.'s office. Her deductive powers are definitely needed when a ranger disappears. Looking for clues among the Aleutian pipeliners, she begins to realize the fine line between lies and loyalties-- between justice served and cold murder.

Inheriting a homestead from her late uncle, a stunned Kate Shugak receives a cryptic letter from him imploring her to discover his father's fate, a mystery involving a priceless tribal artifact for which Kate is targeted by murderous attacks.