Edgar award winner Dana Stabenow has written nine atmospheric crime novels featuring the very prickly, very human kate shugak, but her novels also have a scene-stealing costar: alaska, unforgiving, breathtaking, dangerou...Edgar award winner Dana Stabenow has written nine atmospheric crime novels featuring the very prickly, very human kate shugak, but her novels also have a scene-stealing costar: alaska, unforgiving, breathtaking, dangerous, and beautiful. Stabenow's evocation of this wilderness, combined with her talent for bringing characters to life and creating knuckle-whitening suspense, has made her "One of the strongest voices in crime fiction." ("Seattle times").