A private investigator working out of Sitka, in the Alaskan coastal archipelago, Cecil Younger walks a narrow line between the truth and what his clients pay him to find....Cecil Younger is a man who
A defense investigator working out of Sitka, in the Alaskan coastal archipelago, Cecil Younger walks a narrow line between the truth and what his clients pay him to find....The Music of What Happens.Y
“Strong and sobering … with his storyteller’s sense of dramatic action [Straley’s] in his glory.”—The New York Times Book Review “One of the strongest series since Hillerman set up shop.”—Kirkus Revi
The Shamus Awardwinner's fifth novel puts Alaskan private investigator Cecil Younger on board a firstclass cruise ship afflicted by a series of unexplained deaths, where he suddenly becomes a suspect
Rattled by the gruesome accidental death of a coworker, Slip Wilson quits his job at a logging camp, and decides to make a clean start in Seattle. But along the way, he rescues a woman and her young n
In Sitka, Alaska, a subarctic port surrounded by snow-dusted mountains, an aged Tlingit Indian woman engages local investigator Cecil Younger to look into her son's murder. The crime has long since b
The First Cecil Younger investigation set in Sitka, AlaskaCecil Younger, local Alaskan investigator, is neither good at his job nor great at staying sober. When an old Tlingit woman, unimpressed by th
"Cold Storage, Alaska, is a remote fishing outpost where salmonberries sparkle in the morning frost and where you just might catch a King Salmon if you're zen enough to wait for it. Settled in 1935 by
Cold Storage, Alaska, is a remote fishing outpost where salmonberries sparkle in the morning frost and where you just might catch a King Salmon if you’re zen enough to wait for it. Settled in 1935 by
The sixth novel in John Straley's Alaska P.I. series takes Cecil Younger into rough waters as he grapples with his new life and past, unsolved murders.Three years ago someone brutally killed four peop
The fourth entry to John Straley's Alaska P.I. series finds Cecil Younger with a contract to kill.Cecil Younger is a man who takes comfort in the absurdity of the universe, and the universe is obligin
John Straley's fifth entry to the Alaska P.I. series finds Cecil Younger tracking down a murderer on an Alaskan cruise ship—not quite the vacation he was anticipating.Cecil Younger never thought
Shamus Award–winner John Straley returns to his critically acclaimed Cecil Younger detective series, set in Sitka, Alaska, a land of perfect beauty and not-so-perfect locals. Criminal defense in
In the third entry to the series, Alaska P.I. Cecil Younger is fresh out of rehab with a head wound, a child custody case from hell, and the clients to match.Confrontational and obsessed, Priscilla De
The second book in the Cecil Younger P.I. series set in Sitka, AlaskaWhen Louise Root, a new client of Cecil Younger, is found murdered, the private investigator finds himself in the middle of a web o
An investigator for the public defender of Alaska, Cecil Younger investigates the sexual assault and then the murder of a cook employed at an isolated mining site
