A Grave Denied

Everyone knew that Len Dreyer was a handyman for hire in the Park. But no one knew anything else about him including Kate Shugak, who was planning to ask him to help build a small second cabin on her property. When Len's body is discovered, frozen solid, in the path of a receding glacier with a hole from a shotgun blast in his chest, no one had noticed that he had been missing for months. Alaska State Trooper Jim Chopin asks Kate to help him dig into Dreyer's background, in the hope of finding some motive for his murder. She takes the case, mindful of the need for gainful employment as she copes with her responsibility for Johnny, the teenage boy in her care. Little does she imagine that by trying to provide for him she just might put him right in the path of danger.