KATE SHUGAK is a native Aleut working as a private investigator in
Alaska. She's 5 foot 1 inch tall, carries a scar that runs from ear
to ear across her throat and owns half-wolf, half-husky dog named
Mutt. Resourceful, strong-willed, defiant, Kate is tougher than your
average heroine - and she needs to be to survive the worst the
Alaskan wilds can throw at her.
A FINE AND BITTER SNOW. Tensions run high when Kate's friend and
chief park ranger, Dan O'Brien, is asked to take early retirement.
Could it have somthing to do with his opposition to plans to drill
for oil? Kate rallies the troops to fight for his job, but before
she can really start throwing her weight around, a longtime
resident, a friend of Kate's grandmother, is found brutally
murdered. Alaska State Trooper Jim Chopin enlists Kate in the
investigation, and it isn't long before she discovers that when it
comes to the beauty and danger of living and dying in Alaska,
nothing is as simple as it seems...
