Dana Stabenow

Edgar-award winning author Dana Stabenow is best known for her Kate Shugak novels, but the unifying protagonist of almost all her writing - be it crime, fantasy, horror, or science fiction - is Alaska....

A renegade terrorist with a bottomless personal grudge against all things American targets the most visible symbol of American prestige and power one clear morning in Florida as NASA prepares to launch the Space Shuttle....

It's Labor Day in Blewestown, Alaska, and it seems most of the town's 3,500 residents have turned out to celebrate. Not Liam Campbell. He's checking out the local watering hole. He's been in town for about a week when an archaeologist invites him out to his dig site outside of town....

Writing for Alaska magazine, Alaska-born Dana Stabenow revisits old haunts and explores new ones to capture the vital pioneering spirit of her home state....

Kate Shugak is a native Aleut working as a private investigator in Alaska....

"When the Betelgeuse message was detected, it changed a lot of things on Earth. We began to look seriously outward with deliberate calculation....

Star continues to silently mourn Caleb’s death, World Builders, Inc. is completing its first asteroid-based Bernal sphere, and the Svensdotter twins are of a restless age....

Kate Shugak is determined to convict the odious Louis Deem, who has been arrested and tried for several serious crimes but never convicted....

In Alaska, somebody disappears every day. Hunters who head into the wilderness....

A daughter hires Kate Shugak to clear her mother's name. Twenty years ago, her mother was convicted of arson and murder, of setting fire to the family home while her two sons were inside....

Alaska State Trooper Liam Campbell, newly promoted to corporal, is slowly making a home for himself in the remote town of Newenham....

The root cellar is full, the cordwood is stacked, the oil drums are filled and there’s a freshly-butchered moose in her cache, but Kate Shugak must leave her cabin and head into the chaos of Anchorage....

Once, Kate Shugak was the star investigator of the Anchorage D.A.'s office. Now she's gone back to her Aleut roots in the far Alaska north....

Ellfive colony won its independence in the One-Day Revolution, but while much may be forgiven, its debts haven’t been....

Eighteen months ago, Aleut Kate Shugak quit her job investigating sex crimes for the Anchorage DA’s office and retreated to her father’s homestead in a national park in the interior of Alaska....

When winter's done, but spring has not yet fully sprung, much of Alaska turns to slush. Locally, it's called "breakup," and it's a…messy time of year....

Three relatively quiet months have passed since Trooper Liam Campbell was assigned to the remote post of Newenham....

Liam's just been transferred from Anchorage to the small fishing village of Newenham, Alaska - where a local pilot seems to have lost his head....

Guiding becomes a deadly business when Kate Shugak accepts a contract to shepherd a group of German computer executives on an Alaskan hunting retreat....

Liam had his hands clenched around the edge of his seat and with every muscle strained upward, keeping that plane in the sky....