I’ve really gotten into this book series lately. Set in Alaska.

Since 1993, Dana Stabenow has been writing a series featuring Kate Shugak, a five-foot-one Aleut woman, private investigator alongside her fierce, half-wolf, half-husky companion, Mutt.

A Night Too Dark (2010) is a good one.

The Conflict: The discovery of the world’s second-largest gold mine (the Suulutaq Mine) has deeply divided the local community and attracted hostile environmental activists. 

The Mystery: Park residents, hikers, and mine workers are vanishing at an alarming rate. When an abandoned truck and a suicide note lead to a body that has been scavenged by a bear, the case seems closed—until the “dead” man walks onto Kate’s homestead weeks later. Kate and Jim must discover who the body actually belongs to while dodging an enemy willing to kill to protect the mine’s secrets