John Straley
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Series
Cold storage novels volume 1
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English
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In this gripping tale of survival, betrayal and murder set in the Pacific Northwest in 1935, Slip Wilson is just trying to find work, food and a little justice when he hooks up with a bottle-blonde, Ellie Hobbes, who drags him into her edgy, ragtag life. At the last minute, Ellie, a notorious red union organizer who faces mounting problems with anti-union forces, and her young niece hop aboard the same rickety boat Slip is escaping on that's traveling...
Author
Series
Cecil Younger mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Soho Press
Language
English
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Cecil is hired to investigate the motive of a murder. The danger lies in the meaning of a Tlingit myth.
Author
Series
Cecil Younger mysteries volume 4
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English
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Cecil Younger is a man who takes comfort in the absurdity of the universe. And the universe is obliging him, with a joint phone call from his lawyer and his shrink, to convey a job offer from another client: all Cecil has to do is kill a man. Though common sense tells him murder just isn't a good career move, his finances tell him it can't hurt to meet his potential client. The decision will lead Cecil from a pathetic small-time murder to a decades-old...
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Cecil Younger mysteries volume 6
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English
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Cecil Younger is not a good private investigator. Yet for some reason, call it fate, he cannot give it up. As if he needed proof, there was the case of the unsolved murders aboard the Mygirl. Three years ago someone brutally killed four people on the scow, soaked the deck with gasoline, and set all the evidence ablaze as he escaped in a red tin skiff. Two young men got out with their lives and a third was charged with the slayings. But in a crowded...
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Cold storage novels volume 3
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English
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"It's been seven years since Gloomy Knob landed in the Ted Stevens High-Security Federal Penitentiary and five years since the end of the war, the one North Korea started when they sent a missile to Cold Storage, Alaska. Serving a life sentence for the murder of his sister, Gloomy spends his time trying to forget about the past. Then one day, an old family friend grabs Gloomy from his off-site work station and smuggles him away in a hollow tree trunk....
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Cecil Younger mysteries volume 2
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English
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Sitka defense investigator Cecil Younger takes the case of Louise Root, who wants Younger to break through corporate cover-ups and police apathy to find evidence against the man who raped her in an isolated mining camp
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Series
Cecil Younger mysteries volume 5
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English
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P.I. Cecil Younger works out of Sitka, Alaska, a place of stark beauty and unpredictable danger, where a man paid to look for the truth can just as easily disappear and even the angels will not care. Cecil Younger never thought it would come to this--providing surveillance for a chicken coop being raided by a fowl thief. But things have not exactly been breaking right lately for the Alaskan P.I. The logical thing to do? Take a vacation cruise. Well,...
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Cecil Younger mysteries volume 3
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English
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Younger's got the child custody case from hell, and a client to match. Shrill, confrontational, and obsessed, Priscilla DeAngelo is sure her ex is conspiring with a state senator to wrest her son from her. When she storms off to Juneau for a showdown, Younger's custody case swiftly turns into a murder. Fired from her defense team, Younger stays with the investigation. He's not sure what keeps him bulldogging the case -- Priscilla's sister, his lost...
Author
Series
Publisher
Soho Press
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
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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 investigator Cecil Younger spends his days coaching would-be felons on how to avoid incriminating themselves. He even likes most of the rough characters who seek his services. So when Sherrie, a returning client, asks him to track down some evidence...
Criminal defense investigator Cecil Younger spends his days coaching would-be felons on how to avoid incriminating themselves. He even likes most of the rough characters who seek his services. So when Sherrie, a returning client, asks him to track down some evidence...
Author
Series
Cold storage novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
"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 Norse fishermen who liked to skinny dip in its natural hot springs, the town enjoyed prosperity in the mid-20th century, at the height of the frozen fish boom. But now the cold storage plant is all but abandoned and the population is shrinking every...
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Series
Cold storage novels volume 4
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English
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"Things in the sleepy fishing town of Cold Storage, Alaska, are changing. It's the summer of 1968; the men are wearing their hair long, the Vietnam War is at its height, and multiple assassinations have gripped the country. But some things remain the same. Ellie's bar is still the place to catch up on the town gossip, and there's a lot to talk about, from the boys who have returned from the war (and the ones who haven't), to the robberies that are...
Author
Series
Cecil Younger volume 7
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
241 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Criminal defense investigator Cecil Younger spends his days coaching felons on how to avoid incriminating themselves ... But when Cecil follows a lead from a defendant and walks out of a shady apartment complex with a suitcase containing fifty thousand dollars in cash, he suddenly finds himself in violation of one of his own rules: Nothing good comes of walking around with a lot of someone else's money ... Delivered in the form of a statement to...
Author
Series
Cecil Younger mysteries volume 8
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
274 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The verdict from the three-judge panel is in. Cecil Younger, bumbling criminal defense investigator and totally embarrassing father, has been sentenced to seven-and-a-half years in prison for his involvement in . . . well, a number of things, ranging from destruction of private property to killing a guy. But compared to the original twenty-five-year sentence, it's not so bad. His success with getting his sentence reduced has attracted the attention...