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

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 people on the scow Mygirl. In a crowded courtroom, Cecil Younger helped the accused go free. Now the man charged with the Mygirl murders has disappeared. As a new father, Cecil just wants to move on from the Mygirl killings, but finds he can't just walk away when more and more people associated with the case end up suddenly, separately, but most assuredly dead. Younger is certain that someone is trying to finish the grisly job begun on the Mygirl. He must discover the truth behind what happened three years ago before he can settle what's happening now. With a storm headed straight for Sitka, he must chase down a wooden sloop on the wind-lashed sea. Out in the lethal storm Younger will come face-to-face with the shocking truth that has already twisted so many lives--and now could end his own.

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

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