Dana Stabenow

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  • Bibliography:
    60 Books (6 Series)
  • First Book:
    June 1991
  • Latest Book:
    January 2025
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Full Series List in Order

Coastguard

0.5 - Nooses Give (Dec-1999)
1 - Blindfold Game (Jan-2006)
2 - Prepared for Rage (Feb-2008)
19.5 - Any Taint of Vice (Dec-2012)

Eye of Isis

1 - Death of an Eye (Dec-2018)
2 - Disappearance of a Scribe (Jan-2022)
3 - Theft of an Idol (Nov-2022)
4 - Abduction of a Slave (Jan-2025)

A Kate Shugak Mystery

0.5 - Nooses Give (Dec-1999)
1 - A Cold Day for Murder (Jun-1992)
2 - A Fatal Thaw (Jan-1993)
3 - Dead in the Water (Jul-1993)
4 - A Cold-Blooded Business (Mar-1994)
5 - Play with Fire (Apr-1995)
6 - Blood Will Tell (May-1996)
7 - Breakup (Jun-1997)
8 - Killing Grounds (Mar-1998)
9 - Hunter's Moon (May-1999)
10 - Midnight Come Again (May-2000)
11 - The Singing of the Dead (May-2001)
12 - A Fine and Bitter Snow (Jun-2002)
13 - A Grave Denied (Sep-2003)
13.5 - Under The Influence ()
14 - A Taint in the Blood (Sep-2004)
15 - A Deeper Sleep (Jan-2007)
16 - Whisper to the Blood (Feb-2009)
17 - A Night Too Dark (Feb-2010)
18 - Though Not Dead (Feb-2011)
19 - Restless in the Grave (Feb-2012)
19.5 - Any Taint of Vice (Dec-2012)
20 - Bad Blood (Mar-2013)
21 - Less Than a Treason (May-2017)
22 - No Fixed Line (Jan-2020)
23 - Not the Ones Dead (Apr-2023)

A Liam Campbell Mystery

1 - Fire and Ice (Oct-1998)
2 - So Sure of Death (Oct-1999)
3 - Nothing Gold Can Stay (Sep-2000)
4 - Better to Rest (Sep-2002)
5 - Spoils of the Dead (Jan-2021)

Silk and Song

1 - Everything Under the Heavens (Jan-2014)
2 - By the Shores of the Middle Sea (Oct-2014)
3 - The Land Beyond (Nov-2015)

Star Svensdotter

1 - Second Star (Jun-1991)
2 - A Handful of Stars (Dec-1994)
3 - Red Planet Run (Jan-1995)

Book List in Order: 60 titles

  • Second Star

    Star Svensdotter - 1

    "STAR" IS THE LAW She's tough, aggressive, and packed with true grit but troublemakers are popping up faster than Project Director Esther "Star" Svensdotter can cycle them... Space pirates. Militaries. Politicians. Saboteurs who won't quit unti...

  • A Cold Day for Murder

    A Kate Shugak Mystery - 1

    She's a savvy investigator with the cool toughness of Sam Spade -- and a smile that could melt a block of ice. Once the star of the Anchorage D.A.'s office, she's gone back to her roots in the far Alaska north. But Kate's taken her talent for detecti...

  • A Fatal Thaw

    A Kate Shugak Mystery - 2

    She's a savvy investigator with the cool toughness of Sam Spade --and a smile that could melt a block of ice. Once the star of the Anchorage D.A.'s office, she's gone back to her roots in the far Alaska north. But Kate's taken her talent for detectio...

  • Dead in the Water

    A Kate Shugak Mystery - 3

    She's a savvy investigator with the cool toughness of Sam Spade -- and a smile that could melt a block of ice. Once the star of the Anchorage D.A.'s office, she's gone back to her roots in the far Alaska north. But Kate's taken her talent for detecti...

  • A Cold-Blooded Business

    A Kate Shugak Mystery - 4

    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--where her talent for detection makes her the toughest crime-tracker in that stark and mysterious land... An...

  • A Handful of Stars

    Star Svensdotter - 2

    Star and the rest of the Ellfive crew are commissioned by the new government of Terranova to mount an expedition to the Asteroid Belt, there to mine for those precious ores in rapid decline on Terra and Luna. They’ve got two ships, solid financial ...

  • Red Planet Run

    Star Svensdotter - 3

    Star’s twins have made the Asteroid Belt too hot to hold them and Charlie keeps trying to get Star laid, so when Star is offered a commission to survey the fabled ruins of Cydonia on Mars she jumps at the chance....

  • Play with Fire

    A Kate Shugak Mystery - 5

    Once, Kale 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--where her talent for detection makes her the toughest crime-tracker in that stark and mysterious land... Af...

  • Blood Will Tell

    A Kate Shugak Mystery - 6

    Once, Kale 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--where her talent for detection makes her the toughest crime-tracker in that stark and mysterious land... Th...



  • Breakup

    A Kate Shugak Mystery - 7

    Once, Kale 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--where her talent for detection makes her the toughest crime-tracker in that stark and mysterious land... Ap...

  • Killing Grounds

    A Kate Shugak Mystery - 8

    Once, Kale 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--where her talent for detection makes her the toughest crime-tracker in that stark and mysterious land... Su...

  • Fire and Ice

    A Liam Campbell Mystery - 1

    After a fatal accident destroys his family, state trooper Liam Campbell is transferred from Anchorage to the small fishing village of Newenham, Alaska. He receives a grisly welcome. A commercial pilot has been torn apart by the propeller of a plane. ...

  • Hunter's Moon

    A Kate Shugak Mystery - 9

    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--where her talent for detection makes her the toughest crime-tracker in that stark and mysterious land... It...

  • So Sure of Death

    A Liam Campbell Mystery - 2

    State trooper Liam Campbell knows about loss. His family destroyed and his career in deep freeze, he lives in a leaky fishing trawler in Newenham's Bristol Bay, brooding on how to rebuild his life and the love he once had with bush pilot Wyanet Choui...

  • Nooses Give

    in First Cases Volume 3
    A Kate Shugak Mystery - 0.5
    Coastguard - 0.5

    Follow Tony Hillerman's Jim Chee as he investigates rumors of witchcraft in the steamy Southwest. Join Laura Lippman's Tess Monaghan when she looks into a suspicious house fire in Baltimore. Compare the detecting tactics of Maxine O'Callaghan's pione...

  • Midnight Come Again

    A Kate Shugak Mystery - 10

    Reeling from the shocking murder that shattered her world, private investigator Kate Shugak has vanished into the vast Alaskan wilderness just when Jim Chopin needs her most. The dauntless Alaska State Trooper is ensnared in an intricate case involvi...

  • Nothing Gold Can Stay

    A Liam Campbell Mystery - 3

    Banished to a remote posting on the shores of Bristol Bay, Alaska State Trooper Liam Campbell has just started to get his life--and his career--back on track. His new assistant is proving herself an apt, able investigator, and his perpetually rocky r...

  • The Singing of the Dead

    A Kate Shugak Mystery - 11

    Kate Shugak hires onto the staff of a political campaign to work security for a Native woman running for state senator. The candidate has been receiving anonymous threats, and Kate, who went to college with two of the staffers, is to become her shado...

  • Missing, Presumed...

    in And the Dying is Easy

    WHAT I SOLVED ON MY SUMMER VACATION. Detectives make their reputations solving cases of murder and mayhem. Ever wonder what happens when they try to get away from it all? In this summertime crime spree, twenty of today's best mystery writers--f...



  • A Fine and Bitter Snow

    A Kate Shugak Mystery - 12

    Change never comes easy, but it comes just the same, and it's on its way to the Park, to Niniltna, in southeast Alaska. This time it concerns the possibility of drilling for oil in a wildlife preserve near there, near Aleutian P.I. Kate Shugak's home...

  • Better to Rest

    A Liam Campbell Mystery - 4

    In Better to Rest, Dana Stabenow's hero to cheer for, Alaska state trooper Sergeant Liam Campbell, delves into a case of a past frozen in time--just when his future is starting to heat up.... A string of recent successes has put Liam back on the f...

  • The Mysterious North

    A collection of twelve all-original mystery tales set in Alaska features Anne Perry's "Rearrangements," "Finding Lou" by John Straley, "Losing Streak" by Sue Henry, and Dana Stabenow's "Cheechako," along with works by Donna Andrews, S. J. Rozan, Kate...

  • Alaska Women Writers

    Personal stories about Alaska too often are told by men. Not this time. Here are stories written from women such as Molly Heath, stranded with her children far from home after the 1964 Good Friday earthquake, and Janet McCart, whose eyes are opened w...

  • A Grave Denied

    A Kate Shugak Mystery - 13

    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, who was planning to ask him to help build a small second cabin on her property, knew him. But she, the Park's ...

  • A Taint in the Blood

    A Kate Shugak Mystery - 14

    A MOTHER'S CIRME... Thirty-one years ago in Anchorage, Alaska, Victoria Pilz Bannister Muravieff was convicted of murdering her seventeen-year-old son William. The jury returned a quick verdict of guilty, believing the prosecutor's claims that she h...

  • Wild Crimes

    Go where the wild things are … whether they’re on unruly and lawless urban streets, in a secluded stretch of uncivilized and barbarous woods, or maybe in the frozen mountains of Colorado. Anything can happen to anyone … anywhere … when the na...

  • Justice Is a Two-Edged Sword

    in Powers of Detection

    Investigations of a Different Kind Conjured from the minds of today's most innovative authors, Powers of Detection features a dozen tales of mystery and fantasy, set in worlds where sleuths may wield wands instead of firearms--and criminals may be...

  • Blindfold Game

    Coastguard - 1

    In Thailand, a bomb destroys a tourist spot while two North Korean terrorists casually walk away from the site to plan the next phase of their plot against the United States. In Washington, CIA analyst Hugh Rincon catches the chatter about somethi...

  • A Deeper Sleep

    A Kate Shugak Mystery - 15

    Kate Shugak, a private investigator, has been working on a case for the Anchorage District Attorney involving the murder of a young woman by her husband, a man named Louis Deem. Deem has been the subject of investigations before, and he's never been ...



  • Prepared for Rage

    Coastguard - 2

    Following A Deeper Sleep, her most successful Kate Shugak novel to date, the Edgar Award winner and New York Times bestselling thriller writer Dana Stabenow delivers a nail-biting, all-too-real novel of international suspense.A terrorist with a most ...

  • The Perfect Gift

    in Wolfsbane and Mistletoe

    The editors of Many Bloody Returns deliver the perfect howl-iday gift, with new tales from Patricia Briggs, Carrie Vaughn, and many more. New York Times bestselling authors Charlaine Harris, Patricia Briggs, Keri Arthur, and Carrie Vaughn--along w...

  • At the Scene of the Crime

    THIRTEEN INVESTIGATIONS INTO MEANS, MOTIVE, AND OPPORTUNITY THAT TOGETHER PROVE THE LAW OF UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES CAN TRIP UP EVEN THE MOST MASTERMINDED CRIMINAL.. Mystery readers know that the scientific advancements of recent years have enabled...

  • A Woman's Work

    in Unusual Suspects

    All-new from the top names in mystery and fantasy? including a never-beforepublished Sookie Stackhouse story from Charlaine Harris! This follow-up to Powers of Detection showcases bestselling and award-winning names from Simon Green to Laurie King...

  • Whisper to the Blood

    A Kate Shugak Mystery - 16

    Inside Alaska's biggest national park, around the town of Niniltna, a gold mining company has started buying up land. The residents of the Park are uneasy. "But gold is up to nine hundred dollars an ounce" is the refrain of Talia Macleod, the popular...

  • A Night Too Dark

    A Kate Shugak Mystery - 17

    A Night Too Dark is New York Times bestselling writer Dana Stabenow's latest, the seventeenth in a series chronicling life, death, love, tragedy, mischief, controversy, nature, and survival in Alaska, America's last real frontier. In Alaska, peopl...

  • Though Not Dead

    A Kate Shugak Mystery - 18

    Kate Shugak will go to the ends of the earth to solve one Alaskan family's epic mystery in this breathtaking novel front New York Times bestselling author The residents of Alaska's largest national park are still stunned by the death of one of its...

  • Cheechako

  • Cherchez la Femme

    There’s one in every village. They don’t have to be young, they don’t even have to be pretty, but there is one woman in every Alaskan village whose very presence short circuits something in the nervous system of the male of the species, resulti...

  • Conspiracy

    The brothers Grosdidier are the farthest thing from gentle souls, but as EMTs, they’re the closest thing The Park has to doctors. Living together in the state of chaotic disarray that is the bachelor's birthright, they little suspect the fate that ...



  • Gold Fever

    “He smelled him before he saw him, a thin man who hadn’t shaved in a month and who hadn’t showered in longer than that. He was dressed in a pair of ragged shorts and he held a pump-action twelve-gauge shotgun, the business end pointed at the Ce...

  • No Place Like Home

  • On the Evidence

    “They’re all dead!” he yelled. “They’re all dead, I’m the only one left!”A tragic shooting at an arctic hunting camp brings Alaska Trooper Liam Campbell and pilot Wy Chouinard to Kotzebue, in a short story whose events take place after ...

  • Wreck Rights

    Paul Kameroff was found at the bottom of an icy hill, hands and ankles neatly bound, with a bullet hole in the back of his head. They don't think it was suicide.A Kate Shugak short story. ...

  • Restless in the Grave

    A Kate Shugak Mystery - 19

    New York Times bestseller Dana Stabenow returns with her most outstanding novel yet, teaming up two of her most beloved characters, Aleut private investigator Kate Shugak and Alaska state trooper Liam Campbell, in the same story for the first time. ...

  • Any Taint of Vice

    A Kate Shugak Mystery - 19.5
    Coastguard - 19.5

    In this terrific story from New York Times bestselling author Dana Stabenow, PI Kate Shugak is pulled into the mean streets of the Anchorage underworld to find Alyeska University president Victor Boatright's missing son Carl. For fans who can't wait ...

  • Bad Blood

    A Kate Shugak Mystery - 20

    The villages of Kushtaka and Kuskulana sit across the river from each other, but Kuskulana's always thrived while Kushtaka is slowly dying out. One hundred years of bad blood between the communities threaten to come to a boil when the body of a young...

  • The Collected Short Stories

    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. This genre-spanning collection of 16 short sto...

  • Everything Under the Heavens

    Silk and Song - 1

    Raised in a prosperous family of 14th century Chinese merchants, Wu Johanna has grown up on camelback, in bustling city marketplaces, and in the cool, shaded depths of Silk Road caravanserai. Hers is a world of spice merchants and pearl divers, ba...

  • By the Shores of the Middle Sea

    Silk and Song - 2

    By the Shores of the Middle Sea is the second novel in Dana Stabenow’s Silk and Song Trilogy. In Everything Under the Heavens, 16-year old Johanna fled Cambaluc -- and her murderous stepmother -- joining her uncle's westbound caravan on the Silk Ro...



  • The Land Beyond

    Silk and Song - 3

    The Land Beyond is the third and final novel in Dana Stabenow's Silk and Song trilogy. The story began in Everything Under the Heavens, when 16-year old Johanna fled Cambaluc -- and her murderous stepmother -- joining her uncle's westbound caravan on...

  • Less Than a Treason

    A Kate Shugak Mystery - 21

    Kate Shugak is a native Aleut working as a private investigator in Alaska. She's 5'1" tall, carries a scar that runs from ear to ear across her throat, and owns a half-wolf, half-husky dog named Mutt. Resourceful, strong-willed, defiant, Kate is toug...

  • Death of an Eye

    Eye of Isis - 1

    'Outstanding' Washington Post.
    ALEXANDRIA, 47 BC.

    For three centuries, the House of Ptolemy has governed the Kingdom of Egypt. Cleopatra " seventh of her name " rules from Alexandria, that beacon of commerce and learning t...

  • No Fixed Line

    A Kate Shugak Mystery - 22

    'Fans will hope this series goes on forever' Publishers Weekly.
    ... though there is no fixed line between wrong and right,
    There are roughly zones whose laws must be obeyed.

    It is New Year's Eve, nearly six weeks into...

  • Spoils of the Dead

    A Liam Campbell Mystery - 5

    It's Labor Day in Blewestown, Alaska, and it seems most of the town's 3,500 residents have turned out to celebrate - or to cause trouble. Not Liam Campbell, though. He's checking out the local watering hole in his new town. He's final...

  • Disappearance of a Scribe

    Eye of Isis - 2

    In this exquisite, absorbing historical mystery, Tetisheri, confidant of Queen Cleopatra, must solve a troubling case in ancient Alexandria.

    Alexandria, 47BC. Cleopatra " seventh of her name, avatar of the goddess Isis, ruler of the King...

  • The Collected Short Stories and Essays

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

  • Theft of an Idol

    Eye of Isis - 3

    When Cleopatra's most beloved actress disappears, her new Eye of Isis must solve a case that will lead to the darkest corners of Alexandria.

    From the palaces of Alexandria reigns Cleopatra " seventh of her name, avatar of the goddess...

  • Not the Ones Dead

    A Kate Shugak Mystery - 23

    The gripping new Kate Shugak novel by New York Times bestselling author Dana Stabenow. What seems a tragic accident soon becomes a murder investigation as Kate is drawn into a case of political intrigue.

    A mid-air collision in the Alaskan ...

  • Abduction of a Slave

    Eye of Isis - 4

    The gripping new historical mystery from New York Times bestselling author Dana Stabenow. In Cleopatra's Egypt, the clouds of war are on the horizon…Cleopatra, seventh of her name, all-powerful ruler of Egypt, has found her most able and truste...

  • Under The Influence

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    A Kate Shugak Mystery - 13.5

Award-Winning Books by Dana Stabenow

A Cold Day for Murder
1993 Edgar Allan Poe Award -- Paperback Original


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Dana Stabenow has published 60 books.

The next book by Dana Stabenow, Abduction of a Slave, will be published in January 2025.

The first book by Dana Stabenow, Second Star, was published in June 1991.

Yes. Dana Stabenow has 6 series.
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