Stan Jones (2) (1947–)

On vacation with his girlfriend, Nathan Active is pulled back to duty first by discovery of a dead hunter, then by new of arson fire in the village that killed 7 including the chief of police. City police and state troopers rally to investigate but leads are few and seem to go in multiple directions. Once the case is solved Nathan faces a choice, stay in Chukchi with the woman he is involved with or accept transfer to Anchoarge. A third option also opens.

Native raised by whites is stationed in his birth village. Doubts 2 suicides and reveals plot involving multinational mining company.

Alaska State trooper Nathan Active is Inupiat but raised by whites. He is assigned to his native village where the repatriation of a native burial and artifacts leads to a burglary followed by a murder. A local man who opposed the display of the mummified body in a museum is suspect in both cases but Active's investigation leads him to a conflict dating back three generations, from before the arrival of the whites.

I've never understood the lens through which he writes women, and that's extra apparent in this installment. As a mystery it's fine.