The Music of What Happens

Name: The Music of What Happens
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: John Straley
ISBN: 9781501987472

Author: John Straley

Series: Cecil Younger Investigation #3

Narrator: David Chandler

Unabridged: 7 hr 54 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 10/05/2018

Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Private Investigators, Humorous

Synopsis

In the third entry to the series, Alaska P.I. Cecil Younger is fresh out of rehab, sporting a fresh head wound, with a child custody case from hell, and with the clients to match. Confrontational and obsessed, Priscilla DeAngelo is sure her ex is conspiring with a state senator to wrest her son from her, and thus, hires Cecil Younger to investigate. This is the first time Younger has to deal with lawyers in flashy suits and overused paper shredders. When she storms off to Juneau for a showdown, Younger's custody case swiftly turns into a murder. Younger is fired from the defense team, but he can't stop thinking about the case, and keeps on with the investigation alone. He's not sure what keeps him bulldogging the case-is it Priscilla's sister (his lost love)? His regard for truth as a rare commodity? Or the head injury Priscilla's ex gave him? One thing he knows: he won't let go until it's solved, even if it kills him.

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 aPriL does feral sometimes on January 31, 2021

'The Music of What Happens' by John Straley is book three in the private investigator Cecil Younger series. He lives in Sitka, Alaska, with a mentally-disabled man, Toddy. Cecil takes care of Toddy because of a promise he made to social workers who didn't know what to do with Toddy except maybe putt......more

Goodreads review by Patrick on August 18, 2017

This was really fun. You start out with a lackluster main character and get thrown into a plot twisting exciting mystery. I loved the Alaska archipelago setting, the details of nautical navigation and small bush plane knowledge that made the adventure more entertaining. Of course the plot and it's t......more

Goodreads review by James on June 03, 2018

I didn't enjoy this third entry in the series as much as the first two. Can't put my finger on a single cause for this feeling. Part of it is that some of the characters I'd gotten to know didn't really come along for the ride. No Hannah. Did she and Cecil say goodbye in the second book and I missed......more

Goodreads review by Laurie on July 26, 2010

Again Straley is a little weird but eventually I get into the story.......more

Goodreads review by James Hayes on October 22, 2019

Excellent writer. I didn’t personally care for the characters personalities but loved reading the book cover to cover. In my opinion the mark of a great writer.......more