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The Woman Who Married a Bear

A Cecil Younger Investigation, Book 1

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The Woman Who Married a Bear

By: John Straley
Narrated by: David Chandler
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Cecil Younger, local Alaskan investigator, is neither good at his job nor great at staying sober. When an old Tlingit woman, unimpressed by the police's investigation, 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 new.

But after a failed assassination attempt and the discovery of previously missed evidence, Younger finds himself traveling across Alaska to discover the truth in the 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.

©1992 John Straley (P)2018 Recorded Books Genre Fiction Mystery Police Procedural Small Town & Rural World Literature Alaska Fiction Native American
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Cecil Younger is a private investigator who reads Wendell Berry, is a drunk hellbent on sabotaging everything good in his life (like his relationship with his ex who gave him a book of Wendell Berry poetry that he carries around with him and leaves on park benches; cause nobody in Sitka is going to steal a book of poetry). However you can’t help liking Cecil. I am keen to read more in the series based on this first one

Cecil Younger might just become one of my favourite PIs

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