title: A Grave Denied: A Kate Shugak Novel
author:  Dana Stabenow 
description: After a dozen mysteries featuring Aleut sleuth Kate Shugak, including the Edgar-winning debut A Cold Day for Murder (1992), Stabenow's framework remains simple, sound and effective. Take a strong-willed, independent woman and pit her against the beautiful and dangerous Alaskan wilderness and those, mainly men, who try to compromise her independence. Give her a faithful companion, Mutt, a half-wolf mixed breed, and an abiding sense of loyalty and fair play. One of the pleasures of the series is the tension that arises from the characters' need for both privacy and dependence on others. The result is closeness without intimacy, superbly illustrated when the body of Len Dreyer, town handyman, turns up at the mouth of a glacier. Only then does it become clear that the victim was a complete cipher. Challenges and changes also mark Kate's relationships with teenager Johnny Morgan, son of her late lover, Jack Morgan, and with state trooper Jim Chopin. Kate's professional training and investigative skills make her an able adjunct for the undermanned state police, but this time her efforts render her and Johnny and Mutt targets for a killer. Stabenow is a fine storyteller, but it is her passion for the Alaskan landscape and the iconoclastic people who inhabit it that fires this series and lifts this latest entry to its pinnacle. FYI: Stabenow is also the author of the Liam Campbell (Nothing Gold Can Stay) and the Star Svensdotter (Red Planet Run) mystery series.<br />Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  Copyright © 2019
  
   _For the Lady of Lowena_ by Deborah M. Hathaway
  
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  Published by Draft Horse Publishing
  
  ©Copyright 2019 by Deborah M. Hathaway
  
  © 2019 Cover Art by Cora Graphics
  
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  First Printed Edition, September 2019
  
  This book is a work of fiction. All character names and personalities are
  entirely fictional, created solely in the imagination of the author. Any
  resemblance to any person living or dead is coincidental.
  
  ISBN 978-1-7334820-1-1
  
    
  
   _Table of Contents_
  
   _Books by Deborah M. Hathaway_
  
   _Pronunciation Guide_
  
   _Chapter One_
  
   _Chapter Two_
  
   _Chapter Three_
  
   _Chapter Four_
  
   _Chapter Five_
  
   _Chapter Six_
  
   _Chapter Seven_
  
   _Chapter Eight_
  
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