The Woman Who Married a Bear

Name: The Woman Who Married a Bear
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: John Straley
ISBN: 9781501987212

Author: John Straley

Series: Cecil Younger Investigation #1

Narrator: David Chandler

Unabridged: 7 hr 1 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 05/01/2018

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

Synopsis

Cecil Younger, local Alaskan investigator, is neither good at his job nor at staying sober. When an old Tlingit woman hires him to discover why her son, a big game guide, was murdered, he takes the case without much conviction that he’ll discover anything the police missed. He really just needs the extra cash. But after someone tries to kill him, Younger finds himself traveling across Alaska to ferret out the truth in a midst of conspiracies, politics, and Tlingit mythology. High drama meets local color as Cecil Younger works to uncover the motive and identity of the killer. “Highly refreshing setting, a great cast of characters and an intriguing plot.”—THE BLOOMSBURY REVIEW

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 John

I don't usually care for hardboiled crime fiction written in the first person, featuring a flawed private detective, a la Sam Spade or Philip Marlowe. I fell in with this book, having read the author's excellent quirky storyCold Storage, Alaska. I soon realised this was a very different novel. It wa......more

Goodreads review by aPriL does feral sometimes

'The Woman Who Married a Bear' by John Straley is an unusual mystery. The setting is in Alaska which can be a powerfully evocative location of prehistoric wild(erness) when described by a good writer. Straley nails it. The main character, Cecil Younger, is a private detective who spends more time be......more

Goodreads review by Jim

This is the first in a series about private investigator Cecil Younger, published in 1992. Cecil is the hard-boiled detective type, also a hard drinker ( it seems to go with the territory). But he also has a poetic side. The mystery, about a Native Alaskan hunting guide who was murdered out in the A......more