The Angels Will Not Care

Name: The Angels Will Not Care
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: John Straley
ISBN: 9781501999741

Author: John Straley

Series: Cecil Younger Investigation #5

Narrator: David Chandler

Unabridged: 7 hr 55 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 08/10/2018

Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Private Investigators, Humorous, Indigenous, Small Town & Rural

Synopsis

Trapped on an Alaskan cruise line, PI Cecil Younger must expose a killer—and fast—or he may just find himself sleeping with the fishes. Cecil Younger never thought it would come to this: running surveillance on a chicken coop that’s being raided by a fowl thief. But things have not exactly been breaking right lately for the Alaskan PI. The logical thing to do? Take a vacation, of course. Well, it’s not exactly a vacation. Cecil has been paid to investigate a doctor aboard a cruise ship up the Alaskan coast following some complaints from his patients … that is, the patients who are still alive to complain. Worst of all, someone is leaving evidence pointing an accusing finger at Cecil. By the time the S.S. Westward makes landfall, Cecil will be wishing he was back guarding chickens.

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 Awardâ€“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 Tori on July 30, 2020

I think this might be my favorite in the series so far. These books are so unique to any other detective novels I've ever read; Cecil's good at his job, not because he has any particular prowess for finding clues, but because he understands people and their motivations and the forces that can move t......more

Goodreads review by Steve on October 24, 2019

Robert Frost did not write The Maltese Falcon. But there are other poets who wrote mysteries and mystery authors who wrote poetry. Stephen Dobyns, Cecil Day-Lewis/Nicholas Blake, Fredric Brown, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Raymond Chandler, among others. Mystery author and editor Ellery Queen wrote: “......more

Goodreads review by Michael on May 22, 2020

So entertaining, a perfect embodiment of Straley's style, which is unlike anything else in the genre. As I read through some of the less flattering reviews it actually saddened me that some people just do not get "it" when it comes to this series. And, of course, that's not a knock, it's a reminder......more

Goodreads review by Art on September 27, 2018

I loved the hitch-hiking adventures in the previous book in this series, so I was very pleased to find Cecil, Toddy and Jane Marie taking an Alaskan cruise. Cecil has been asked to investigate complaints about medical treatment on a cruise ship, so the three travel aboard the S.S. Westward. This is a......more

Goodreads review by Marty on June 13, 2024

Given to me by my buddy, Gordon. Thanks Gordon for a really good book, This apparently is a series about detective Cecil Younger. This novel being #5 in the series. Good narrative and descriptions of Cecil, his wife and his roommate Todd. They carry on with twists and turns from Juneau up and down t......more