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The Woman Who Married a Bear (Cecil Younger, Bk 1)
The Woman Who Married a Bear - Cecil Younger, Bk 1
Author: John Straley
Sitka, Alaska, is a subarctic port surrounded by snow-dusted mountains. In addition to honest work, there is a lot of alcohol consumed and other people's money appropriated.  Bars are loud, fights are mean.  Rowdy youths party in the ancient Russian cemeteries, sitting on overturned gravestones.  Sitka is hardly straight-laced...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781569474013
ISBN-10: 156947401X
Publication Date: 7/1/2005
Pages: 226
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3.6 stars, based on 10 ratings
Publisher: Soho Crime
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
Members Wishing: 1
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reviewed The Woman Who Married a Bear (Cecil Younger, Bk 1) on + 64 more book reviews
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Cecil Younger is the black sheep son of a straight-arrow family. He writes poems, drinks too much, broods about the lovely girl who left him, and works as a private investigator in the port of Sitka, Alaska. Now he is being paid handsomely to probe the ugly murder of a Native American hunting guide. It is a case that will take him from the gritty Alaskan urban lower depths to the dark heart of the northern wilderness, and from a sordid tangle of sex and greed to primitive myth and magic. It is a bitingly vivid and suspenseful journey, and he takes you with him every swift, dangerous step and leap of the way.
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this is a really great author. He won 1993 shamus award for best first PI novel.
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reviewed The Woman Who Married a Bear (Cecil Younger, Bk 1) on + 76 more book reviews
Good book. Quick read.
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Award winning first book in mystery series set in alaska
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A different sort of mystery based on an Eskimo story. A realistic view into an alcoholic's view of the world. That was a little depressing, but the mystery itself was good. Kept me guessing.
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This was a wonderful blending of Indian folklore and modern day Alaska. An old mystery heats up when an investigator is asked to look into a two-year-old murder. With the confessed killer in jail, someone is desperate to stop any further digging into the past. Which is highly suspicious and leads to an interesting murder mystery.


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