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MYSTERIES
A Nathan Active Mystery
Shaman Pass
• Stan Jones
MYSTERY •
2006 •
PAPER
• 272 PAGES
The second installation in Jones's Nathan Active mystery series, starring an Alaska state trooper from Anchorage living in Chukchi. Active investigates the theft of an Inupiat mummy in this mystery, noteworthy for its fully realized Arctic setting.
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Village of the Ghost Bears
• Stan Jones
MYSTERY •
2011 •
PAPER
• 332 PAGES
Alaska State Trooper Nathan Active must figure out what connects a dead hunter on a remote Arctic lake with a year-old fatal plane crash in the Brooks Range and a fire at the Chukchi Recreation Center that killed eight people, including the town's basketball star. The case turns out to involve a lucrative polar bear poaching operation and the intense bond between a brother and sister from the village of Cape Goodwin, famous in the Arctic for twins, polar bears, and schizophrenia. The heart of the matter, he discovers, is a dead woman whose killer remembers her as having a mouth so sweet "it was like kissing a Hershey bar."
(ARC239, $44.00) |
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White Sky, Black Ice
• Stan Jones
MYSTERY •
2003 •
PAPER
• 264 PAGES
This first-rate murder mystery has as a considerable added bonus its authentic Arctic setting. In this book state trooper Nathan Active (star of the series) returns to Chukchi from Anchorage to confront a memorable cast of characters -- and figure out why two young men have killed themselves. Jones weaves serious cultural issues into his thoroughly engaging story. Nathan Active, a likeable guy born in Chukchi but raised in Anchorage, dances between native and transplanted cultures, skeptical of both.
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