27. Prepared for Rage - Dana Stabenow - 288 pages. Not part of her ongoing series, this one focused on a Coast Guard Captain and an astronaut going up in the shuttle. Interesting character development, a bit of romance, criminal investigations and some insight into how both NASA and The Coast Guard work.

28. Quantico - Greg Bear - 326 pages. An ( Read more... )

25. A Deeper Sleep: A Kate Shugak Novel - Dana Stabenow - 256 pages. The latest in her Kate Shugak Series this one doesn't disappoint. We get murder, mayhem, investigations, a bit of romance, and the story of the characters advances further with more insight into what drives them too.

25 / 120 books read and 7,627 / 50,000 pages read

20. Nothing Gold Can Stay: A Liam Campbell Mystery - Dana Stabenow - 275 pages. This one centered on a hunt for a serial killer, and included a city couple out in the boonies working a gold mine claim.

21. Better to Rest: A Liam Campbell Mystery - Dana Stabenow - 263 pages. This mystery brings back Campbell's Father to the area, and centered ( Read more... )

19. So Sure of Death: A Liam Campbell Mystery - Dana Stabenow - 275 pages. This time a mass murder on a fishing boat and a murder at an archaeological dig are the focuses of the investigations. The same main characters reprise from the first novel in this series. Plenty of action and adventure abound too.

19 / 120 books read and 5,414 / 50,000 ( Read more... )

18. Breakup: A Kate Shugak Novel - Dana Stabenow - 242 pages. This was actually my 16th read of the year, but somehow I misplaced my little note about it, so it's getting listed here instead. This one starts out with bears and a bang. Seems like the bears are much more active in the park and causing problems, and then all of a sudden Kate's ( Read more... )

17. Fire and Ice: A Liam Campbell Mystery - Dana Stabenow - 264 pages. The first in another series by this author. This time the main character is a male state trooper in Alaska. Many of the same themes run through this one, fishing, hunting, effects of alcohol on native peoples, and a strong woman taking in a kid not her own. Trooper Campbell ( Read more... )

15. Play with Fire: A Kate Shugak Novel - Dana Stabenow - 282 pages. This one is set between Kate working at the oil field and the big-game hunting novel. Kate is out in the woods with Bobby and Dinah (right after they first met) picking Morel mushrooms in the ashes of a previous forest fire, when they find a body. The investigation into that ( Read more... )

14. Powers of Detection: Stories of Mystery & Fantasy - Edited by Dana Stabenow - 224 pages. This collection includes stories by Donna Andrews, Michael Armstrong, Anne Bishop, Jay Caselberg, Mike Doogan, Laura Anne Gilman, Simon R. Green, Charlaine Harris, Anne Perry, Sharon Shinn, Dana Stabenow and John Straley. Each of these stories includes a ( Read more... )

13. Blindfold Game - Dana Stabenow - 260 pages. This one is a thriller unconnected to her Kate Shugak Series or any other book. The two main characters are a husband and wife who don't currently live together. He is a desk jockey in the CIA and she's an Executive Officer on a Coast Guard cruiser. He gets involved in an investigation that takes ( Read more... )

12. A Taint in the Blood: A Kate Shugak Novel - Dana Stabenow - 305 pages. At the beginning of this book, Kate is running around the Park helping people out because she is thankful for all they've done for her and her adopted son. People are starting to get tired of her butting in and helping them out, without their asking for it. Early in the ( Read more... )