
Which this pretty much was, so I went down to Nordstrom in Anchorage and found a pair of dress slacks with pockets (very important) on the sale rack. For one thing, I was broke, and for another, I don’t do dress-up. When I finally figured out I had to dress up for it, I nearly said I couldn’t go. They were also, my editor said, flying me to New York City for the Edgar awards ceremony. Then a tentative, You know what an Academy Award is, don’t you? The Edgar Awards were to crime fiction what the Academy Awards were to film. There was a moment of silence, followed by a spluttering explanation.

Last seen yesterday… ContentsĪnd pyrotechnical adviser A Word from the Author Kate Shugak: light brown eyes, black hair, five foot tall with an angry scar from ear to ear.

Last heard from two weeks and two days ago.Now it’s time to send in a professional. But as a favour to his congressman father, the FBI send in an investigator: Ken Dahl. It’s assumed by the Alaskan Parks Department that Miller has been caught in a snowstorm and frozen to death, the typical fate of those who get lost in this vast and desolate terrain. Somewhere in twenty million acres of forest and glaciers, a ranger has disappeared: Mark Miller. Table of Contents About A Cold Day for Murder Maps Kate’s Homestead Niniltna The Park A Cold Day for Murder Just as well that she’ll have Mutt at her side throughout it all. In this epic box set, Kate will track an unknown mass murderer, go undercover to apprehend a drug dealer and face extreme peril herself. She’s worked under cover in the Arctic Circle, gone to sea, signed up as a bodyguard, tracked missing tribal relics and she continues to fight for the Aleut way of life.

She is tougher than your average heroine – and she needs to be to survive the worst the Alaskan wilds can throw at her. Orphaned at eight years old, Kate grew up to be resourceful, strong willed and defiant.

Private investigator Kate Shugak is 5 foot 1 inch tall, carries a scar that runs from ear to ear across her throat and owns a half-wolf, half-husky named Mutt.
