...new hardcover whodunits set in the 49th state. "A Fine and Bitter Snow" (St. Martin's) is Anchorage resident Dana Stabenow's 12th in the series featuring Aleutian detective Kate Shugak, who investigates when a plan to drill for oil on...

...investigates the murder of a wealthy man's attractive, unfaithful wife. -- "Nothing Gold Can Stay" (Dutton) by Dana Stabenow. An Alaska State Trooper hunts for a serial killer. -- "Fall of a Cosmonaut" (Mysterious) by Stuart M. Kaminsky...

...a suspicious falling death in Maine's Acadia National Park. -- "Midnight Come Again'' (St. Martin's) by Dana Stabenow. In the series' 10th, Alaska private eye Kate Shugak is in hiding but is tracked down by a colleague who needs help...