Fiction
The
Cloud Atlas - Set against the magnificent backdrop of Alaska in the waning
days of World War II, The Cloud Atlas is an enthralling debut novel, a story
of adventure and awakening—and of a young soldier who came to Alaska
on an extraordinary, top-secret mission…and found a world that would haunt him forever.
Two
Old Women - Based on an Athabascan Indian legend passed along for many
generations from mothers to daughters of the upper Yukon River area in Alaska,
this is the suspenseful, shocking, ultimately inspirational tale of two old
women abandoned by their tribe during a brutal winter famine. Though these
two women have been known to complain more than contribute, they now must either
survive on their
own or die truing.
Mysteries
A
Grave Denied: A Kate Shugak Novel - Everyone knew Len Dreyer, a handyman
for hire in the Park near Niniltna, Alaska, but no one knew anything else about
him. Even Kate Shugak hired him to thin the trees on her 160-acre homestead,
but she, the Park's unofficial p.i.,
seems to have known less about him than anyone. Alaska is a place where anybody
can bury his history and start fresh, and for any reason, but this particular
mystery comes to light when Len Dreyer turns
up murdered. His body is discovered, frozen solid, in the path of a receding
glacier with the hole from a shotgun blast in his chest. No one even knew he
was missing, but it turns out he's been missing for months.
Death Trap : An Alaska Mystery - With August drawing to a close, Jessie Arnold
is feeling empty. Not even the return of a friend can lessen her disappointment
over having to miss the approaching Alaskan dogsled racing season because of
her recent knee surgery. But a request to help man the Iditarod booth at the
Alaska State Fair is a godsend, something that keeps Jessie involved and happy
. . . until a corpse turns up on the fairgrounds.
Better to Rest: A Liam Campbell Mystery - Alaska state trooper Sergeant Liam Campbell
is the representative of law and order in the fishing village of Newenham-yet
struggles to keep his own life on an even keel. Now, just when his future is
starting to heat up, he delves into a case of a downed WWII army plane found
mysteriously frozen in a glacier.
Shaman Pass - 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 Indian Graves Act, just a few days earlier together with
an unidentified Inupiat mummy nicknamed “Uncle Frosty.”
Cold
Water Burning - It could be argued that being a private investigator in the
small town of Sitka, Alaska, is one of the worst career decisions a person with
a high-school diploma can make. And the fact is, even by his own admission Cecil
Younger is not even a good private investigator. Yet for some reason, call it
fate, he cannot give it up. As if he needed proof, there was the case of the
unsolved murders aboard the Mygirl.
