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* MassiveNumberedSiblings: Father Smith is the proud proprietor of a forty acre homestead in the Park, along with a wife and seventeen children, all of whom live at home.
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* AnimalStampede: In one short story, a villain is trampled to death ([[NeverFoundTheBody probably]]) by a stampeding herd of [[WilyWalrus walruses]] after he shoots at Kate while standing between them and the sea.
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* SalvagePirates: In the short story "Wreck Rights", Kate and Jim investigate a group of modern day 'wreckers', who cause truck crashes on a steep mountain and then loot the goods being transported out of the wrecked trucks. Kate even references ''Literature/JamaicaInn'' by name.
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* CanonWelding: ''Restless in the Grave'' features an appearance from Liam Campbell, the Alaska State Trooper protagonist of Stabenow's other crime series, and characters from his books.
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* FileMixup: Done deliberately in ''A Night Too Dark'', where the medical files of two employees are switched to ensure that a badly mangled corpse is misidentified.
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* AttemptedRape: Kate is almost raped after being captured by the killers in ''Hunter's Moon''. Even though her hands are bound behind her back, she manages to escapes when the would-be rapist cuts her legs free, thanks to a timely distraction from Jack Morgan and some applied violence on her part.
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* AttemptedRape: Kate is almost raped after being captured by the killers in ''Hunter's Moon''. Even though her hands are bound behind her back, she manages to escapes escape when the would-be rapist cuts her legs free, thanks to a timely distraction from Jack Morgan and some applied violence on her part.
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* LadyKillerInLove: HandsomeLech Sergeant Jim Chopin. A serial philanderer, he ends up falling hard for Kate. It takes several novels for him to realise how deeply in love with her he is, and several more for him to convince her of his seriousness.
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* ConvenientlyPlacedSharpThing: In ''A Taint in the Blood'', Kate is captured and tied to a camp bed in an old cabin. She escapes by breaking the bed till she can squirm across the floor, and then lighting a Coleman stove and using it to burn through the rope.
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* AttemptedRape: Kate is almost raped after being captured by the killers in ''Hunter's Moon''. Even though her hands are bound behind her back, she manages to escapes when the would-be rapist cuts her legs free, thanks to a timely distraction from Jack Morgan and some applied violence on her part.
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* AnyoneCanDie: The series does not shy away from killing off regular and recurring characters, either through natural causes (e.g. Ekaterina, Old Sam) or murder (e.g. Jack Morgan, Mac Devlin).
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* ConspiracyTheorist: Crazy Emmett in ''Hunter's Moon''. A former history teacher who believed the United Nations was plotting to install a one world government, he dropped off the grid to live deep in the Alaskan bush.
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* EgomaniacHunter: Dieter in ''Hunter's Moon''. He is the CEO of a German company who forces his executive team to accompany him on a hunting expedition in the Alaskan wilderness. His stated goal is to bag a record antler rack, and Kate is disgusted when he only takes the head of the moose he kills, refusing to pack the meat out with him.
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* BraidsBeadsAndBuckskins: Kate and other Native Alaskan characters occasionally run into ignorant tourists who expect them to conform to Plains Indian stereotypes. It doesn't end well for the tourists.
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* HandsomeLech: Sergeant "Chopper Jim" Chopin. He is nicknamed "father of the Park" because of his sexual proclivities (although he is actual very careful to ensure that he has no children). He is eventually transformed into a LadyKillerInLove.
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* HandsomeLech: Sergeant "Chopper Jim" Chopin. He is nicknamed "father of the Park" because of his sexual proclivities (although he is actual actually very careful to ensure that he has no children). He is eventually transformed into a LadyKillerInLove.
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* TreasureMap: In ''Though Not Dead'', Kate gets sent on a treasure hunt by Old Sam's will. It ultimately leads her to an actual treasure map that guides her to the lost icon.
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* BathroomBreakOut: In ''Restless in the Grave'', Kate escapes from the pilot she had tricked into bringing her to Adak by going to the bathroom in the bar, and then getting the waitress to direct her to the back way out.
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* VehicularSabotage: In ''Restless in the Grave'', Finn Grant is murdered when the killer loosens the oil line in his plane. The killer later tries to do the same thing to the plane Kate is flying on.
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* ArmsDealer: The victim in ''Restless in the Grave'' is running a black market arms operation; stealing arms from US military bases and selling them to criminals and terrorists in Asia.
* AssholeVictim: Finn Grant, who is murdered in ''Restless in the Grave'', is a CorruptCorporateExecutive who dabbles in blackmail and runs a black market arms dealership.
* AssholeVictim: Finn Grant, who is murdered in ''Restless in the Grave'', is a CorruptCorporateExecutive who dabbles in blackmail and runs a black market arms dealership.
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* RomeoAndJulietPlot: An Alaskan version of Romeo and Juliet, with a boy and a girl from feuding villages, forms a major part of the plot of ''Bad Blood''. Author Dana Stabenow says in her introduction that she always thought the play was more about the families than the lovers, and that Shakespeare could have handled the elopement far better.
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* TamperingWithFoodAndDrink: One victim in ''A Night Too Dark"' is killed when her cookie is spiked with peanut oil to induce a fatal allergic reaction.
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* BuccaneerBroadcaster: Bobby Clark runs an illegal radio station called Park Air that broadcasts on an irregular schedule and keeps changing frequencies to stay ahead of the authorities.
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* TamperingWithFoodAndDrink: One victim in ''A Night Too Dark"' is killed when her cookie is spiked with peanut oil to induce a fatal allergic reaction.
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* NobleWolf: Kate's loyal-unto-death CanineCompanion, who has saved her life on countless occasions, is a wolfdog (a wolf-dog hybrid) named Mutt.
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* GoodScarsEvilScars: Kate has a faded scar running most of the way round her neck where a child murderer attempted to slit her throat. She ended up killing him with his own knife.
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* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: Kate's healthy (and satisfying) sex life is always lovingly described.
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* PrivateDetective: Kate is a licensed private detective, who sometimes does work for the Alaska State Troopers.
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* NewOldWest: Much is made of the frontier atmosphere of Alaska, and the fact that the beat of single trooper can cover 300 miles or more.
* ScaryBlackMan: Bobby Clark is this when he wants to be. No less scary for missing both legs below the knee.
* ScaryBlackMan: Bobby Clark is this when he wants to be. No less scary for missing both legs below the knee.
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* HandsomeLech: Sergeant "Chopper Jim" Chopin in the ''Literature/KateShugak'' mysteries by Dana Stabenow. He is nicknamed "father of the Park" because of his sexual proclivities (although he is actual very careful to ensure that he has no children). He is eventually transformed into a LadyKillerInLove.
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* CanineCompanion: Shugak is usually accompanied, and at times rescued, by her faithful husky/wolf cross Mutt.
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* CasualKink: The novels are completely blatant but completely matter of fact about Kate's extremely aggressive attitude in bed, and love of scratching and biting her lovers.
* ConsultingMisterPuppet: In ''A Deeper Sleep'', one of the suspects (a victim of fetal alcohol syndrome) keeps talking the Darth Vader action figure he carries in his top pocket.
* HandicappedBadass: Bobby Clark epitomises this trope by having no legs yet still being a very ScaryBlackMan when occasionally necessary.
* HandsomeLech: Sergeant "Chopper Jim" Chopin in the ''Literature/KateShugak'' mysteries by Dana Stabenow. He is nicknamed "father of the Park" because of his sexual proclivities (although he is actual very careful to ensure that he has no children). He is eventually transformed into a LadyKillerInLove.
* CasualKink: The novels are completely blatant but completely matter of fact about Kate's extremely aggressive attitude in bed, and love of scratching and biting her lovers.
* ConsultingMisterPuppet: In ''A Deeper Sleep'', one of the suspects (a victim of fetal alcohol syndrome) keeps talking the Darth Vader action figure he carries in his top pocket.
* HandicappedBadass: Bobby Clark epitomises this trope by having no legs yet still being a very ScaryBlackMan when occasionally necessary.
* HandsomeLech: Sergeant "Chopper Jim" Chopin in the ''Literature/KateShugak'' mysteries by Dana Stabenow. He is nicknamed "father of the Park" because of his sexual proclivities (although he is actual very careful to ensure that he has no children). He is eventually transformed into a LadyKillerInLove.
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Kate Shugak is the heroine of a series of mystery novels by Dana Stabenow. The first book in the mystery series, ''A Cold Day for Murder'', won the Edgar Award for Best Paperback Original in 1993.
Private investigator Kate Shugak is 5 foot 1 inch tall, carries a scar that runs from ear to ear across her throat and owns a half-wolf, half-husky named Mutt. Orphaned at eight years old, Kate grew up to be resourceful, strong willed and defiant. She is tougher than your average heroine - and she needs to be to survive the worst the Alaskan wilds can throw at her.
Kate investigates murders. She's worked under cover in the Arctic Circle, gone to sea, signed up as a bodyguard, tracked missing tribal relics and she continues to fight for the Aleut way of life.
Novels in the series:
* ''A Cold Day For Murder'' (1992)
* ''A Fatal Thaw'' (1992)
* ''Dead In The Water'' (1993)
* ''A Cold Blooded Business'' (1994)
* ''Play With Fire'' (1995)
* ''Blood Will Tell'' (1996)
* ''Breakup'' (1997)
* ''Killing Grounds'' (1998)
* ''Hunter's Moon'' (1999)
* ''Midnight Come Again'' (2000)
* ''The Singing Of The Dead'' (2001)
* ''A Fine And Bitter Snow'' (2002)
* ''A Grave Denied'' (2003)
* ''A Taint In The Blood'' (2004)
* ''A Deeper Sleep'' (2007)
* ''Whisper to the Blood'' (2009)
* ''A Night Too Dark'' (2010)
* ''Though Not Dead'' (2011)
* ''Restless in the Grave'' (2012)
* ''Bad Blood'' (2013)
!!Tropes in the series include:
* ActionGirl: Kate
* CanineCompanion: Shugak is usually accompanied, and at times rescued, by her faithful husky/wolf cross Mutt.
* HerHeartWillGoOn: A variant. Kate's dead lover doesn't leave her with a baby... but she does wind up raising his teenage son from his previous marriage (the biological mother isn't dead; the kid just prefers Kate, and with good reason).
Private investigator Kate Shugak is 5 foot 1 inch tall, carries a scar that runs from ear to ear across her throat and owns a half-wolf, half-husky named Mutt. Orphaned at eight years old, Kate grew up to be resourceful, strong willed and defiant. She is tougher than your average heroine - and she needs to be to survive the worst the Alaskan wilds can throw at her.
Kate investigates murders. She's worked under cover in the Arctic Circle, gone to sea, signed up as a bodyguard, tracked missing tribal relics and she continues to fight for the Aleut way of life.
Novels in the series:
* ''A Cold Day For Murder'' (1992)
* ''A Fatal Thaw'' (1992)
* ''Dead In The Water'' (1993)
* ''A Cold Blooded Business'' (1994)
* ''Play With Fire'' (1995)
* ''Blood Will Tell'' (1996)
* ''Breakup'' (1997)
* ''Killing Grounds'' (1998)
* ''Hunter's Moon'' (1999)
* ''Midnight Come Again'' (2000)
* ''The Singing Of The Dead'' (2001)
* ''A Fine And Bitter Snow'' (2002)
* ''A Grave Denied'' (2003)
* ''A Taint In The Blood'' (2004)
* ''A Deeper Sleep'' (2007)
* ''Whisper to the Blood'' (2009)
* ''A Night Too Dark'' (2010)
* ''Though Not Dead'' (2011)
* ''Restless in the Grave'' (2012)
* ''Bad Blood'' (2013)
!!Tropes in the series include:
* ActionGirl: Kate
* CanineCompanion: Shugak is usually accompanied, and at times rescued, by her faithful husky/wolf cross Mutt.
* HerHeartWillGoOn: A variant. Kate's dead lover doesn't leave her with a baby... but she does wind up raising his teenage son from his previous marriage (the biological mother isn't dead; the kid just prefers Kate, and with good reason).
