The Woman Who Married a Bear
- ISBN-10
- 1569479313
- ISBN-13
- 9781569479315
- Series
- The Woman Who Married a Bear
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 226
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2005-07-01
- Publisher
- Soho Press
- Author
- John Straley
Description
High drama meets local color as a private investigator works to uncover the motive and identity of a killer in this Shamus Award–winning first Cecil Young investigation set in Sitka, Alaska. 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 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.
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