Big Breath In

A very memorable protagonist is the best thing about this P.I./crime book, but it’s amply studded with other pleasures and felicities. Delphine, a marine biologist, has spent her life observing and recording data on the mysterious sperm whale, and she thought she’d spend some years post-retirement co......more

With the release of THE WOMAN WHO MARRIED A BEAR in 1995, author John Straley began a career that would include multiple awards and both the Cecil Younger and Cold Storage mystery series that have spawned legions of fans. He continues to bring his special style of crime noir writing with the release......more

I have been a reader of John Straley's fiction for a long while now. In this book, there is a perspective of maturity that tells me Straley has really been paying attention to the trajectory of his life and using the changes that come with age in his writing. This is a story quite different than the......more

What a weird book. A woman dying from cancer goes back and forth between her body almost ready to cross over and saving these babies from a human trafficking ring disguised as an adoption group.......more

What a very special book. Delphine is in Seattle from her native Alaska and receives a terminal cancer diagnosis. Knowing that she is near the end she contemplates her life. Her husband is gone and her son is making a new family. Glancing out the window she sees a woman and her child being abused by......more