Alaska aviation entrepreneur Finn Grant died in a fiery plane crash. Someone sabotaged his engine, and virtually everyone in southwestern Alaska has a motive. Among the suspects are a betrayed wife, his bullied children, and State Trooper Liam Campbell's wife, bush pilot Wyanet Chouinard. With his wife under a judicial microscope, Liam asks his former mentor, Sergeant Jim Chopin, for help, and Jim quickly brings P. I. Kate Shugak onto the case. Working undercover as a waitress at Bill's Bar and Grill, Kate learns that Grant ...
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Alaska aviation entrepreneur Finn Grant died in a fiery plane crash. Someone sabotaged his engine, and virtually everyone in southwestern Alaska has a motive. Among the suspects are a betrayed wife, his bullied children, and State Trooper Liam Campbell's wife, bush pilot Wyanet Chouinard. With his wife under a judicial microscope, Liam asks his former mentor, Sergeant Jim Chopin, for help, and Jim quickly brings P. I. Kate Shugak onto the case. Working undercover as a waitress at Bill's Bar and Grill, Kate learns that Grant's business had expanded meteorically over the last two years. After buying a closed Air Force base from the government at a bargain-basement price, he became a fixed-base operator running his fishing and hunting business. But his most recent -- and lucrative -- venture was the airfreight business. What kind of freight was he moving -- and where? The answers involve Kate in her most challenging case to date, one that starts with murder and quickly sprawls into a much
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Another interesting read by Alaskan mystery writer Dana Stabenow. Kate Shugak, our favorite PI, is hired by an Alaskan state trooper, Liam Clancy, to investigate an airplane accident that might have been murder. Inasmuch as his wife had a major argument with the deceased the day before the
'accident', it could be seen as a conflict of interest if he investigated. However, the first chapter in the story is about a female helicopter pilot's death in Afghanistan, but don't fear. It is connected to the story.
