800) and Bernie's Roadhouse, site of a hilarious showdown between two drunken pipeline workers with a stolen 30-ton excavating machine and a helicopter-flying state trooper. In the process Shugak gets shot at twice and readers get a guided tour of the local landmarks, including Shugak's manipulative grandmother's house in Niniltna (pop. When a park ranger-a congressman's son-disappears, as does the investigator sent after him, the FBI and Shugak's old boss ask for her help. But after getting her throat cut while apprehending a child abuser, she has retired to the Park, 20 million acres of Alaskan wilderness, snow and eccentrics-yet the children's cries keep reverberating in her head. Detective Kate Shugak became the top investigator for the Anchorage District Attorney's Office. This whodunit rides the crest of today's styles: a female detective, a remote locale and the conflict between the traditional way of life (in this case Aleut) and modern America.
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