It's the height of hunting season in the bush. Experienced hunter Kate Shugak and her boyfriend volunteer to help out their friend and big-game outfitter George Perry with a hunting trip. The would be hunters are a wealthy group of German computer executives who blaze away at every target that comes into sight. Used to pampering, the group has a style that clashes with Kate's self-sufficient ways. After successfully bagging a moose with two of her charges, Kate returns to camp to learn that a hunter has been shot. It appears to be an accident, until the body of a second hunter is discovered in even more gruesome circumstances. With no shortage of potential suspects, Kate realizes the moose and the bears aren't the only animals being hunted in the bush. "Stabenow is rapidly emerging as one of the strongest voices in crime fiction in the vast expanse of Alaska." (Seattle Times)