Cold Water Burning, John Straley
Cold Water Burning, John Straley
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Cold Water Burning

Author: John Straley

Narrator: David Chandler

Unabridged: 8 hr 18 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 06/22/2018

Synopsis

After years on the job as a private investigator in Sitka, Alaska, Cecil Younger doesn’t claim to have learned much about humanity as a whole, but he does know this: truth is a slippery thing. When the wife of a former client comes to Cecil to ask for help finding her husband, Cecil agrees. After all, helping get Richard exonerated during a tragic murder trial three years ago had been one of the biggest successes of Cecil’s career. But why, if Richard’s name had been cleared, was he M.I.A. now? Patricia, Richard’s steadfast wife, has one guess: someone is after Richard. It’s no secret that Richard has a long list of enemies, not least of which are the family members of the dead. But things soon get complicated when Patricia is killed, sending Cecil on a desperate trip to sea to chase down the twisted truth.

About John Straley

John Straley was
born in 1953, the youngest of five children. He received a BA in English and a
certificate of completion in horseshoeing. He enjoys jokes and a wide variety
of literature and music. He is the Shamus Award–winning author of The
Curious Eat Themselves and The Woman Who Married a Bear and
was appointed the Writer Laureate of Alaska in 2006. Straley lives with his
wife, Jan, a prominent whale biologist, in a bright green house on the beach in
Sitka, Alaska, where he works as a criminal defense investigator by day and
sleeps, writes, and plays with his band, the Big Fat Babies, whenever he can.

Reviews

Goodreads review by James

Back to form for Straley. He has a way of constructing a mystery and keeping you frustrated until the very end trying to figure it out. But his aren't those "Darn! I should have seen that coming" types of stories, and this one certainly isn't. I won't go into any plot details here, just observe that......more

Goodreads review by Steve

There are more violent deaths in this book than there were at the St. Valentine's Day Massacre. And yet, I did not ever feel that the violence was there for the sake of violence. Much of the book is somber and dark, as is the case with all of this series. Cecil Younger is a private investigator in Si......more

Goodreads review by Lois

Well written multiple murder mysteries.......more

Goodreads review by Virginia

Like all of the Straley mystery novels, this is worth reading for the Alaskan setting and fine writing. Here the plot itself gets a little too convoluted with multiple killings and multiple motives and multiple suspects. I do always enjoy seeing the progression of a character's life over successive......more

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