The Curious Eat Themselves (Cecil Younger Series #2) [NOOK Book]

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“Strong and sobering … with his storyteller’s sense of dramatic action [Straley’s] in his glory.”—The New York Times Book Review

“One of the strongest series since Hillerman set up shop.”—Kirkus Reviews

Cecil Younger is an investigator for the public defender in Sitka, Alaska. A woman who hired him to ...
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The Curious Eat Themselves (Cecil Younger Series #2)

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Overview

“Strong and sobering … with his storyteller’s sense of dramatic action [Straley’s] in his glory.”—The New York Times Book Review

“One of the strongest series since Hillerman set up shop.”—Kirkus Reviews

Cecil Younger is an investigator for the public defender in Sitka, Alaska. A woman who hired him to investigate her rape is found dead in the estuarial waters of Ketchikan township, “her throat cut so deeply that the trachea flopped out like a rubbery white radiator hose.”

John Straley lives in Sitka, Alaska, with his wife, a marine biologist who studies whales. He is the author of half a dozen Cecil Younger mysteries.

From the Trade Paperback edition.

Cecil Younger is a defense investigator working out of Sitka, Alaska. Though most of Younger's clients are defendants, this one is the victim of a crime. Louise Roots wants Younger to break through corporate cover-ups and police apathy to find evidence against the man who raped her in an isolated mining camp. Before she can tell him the details, her throat is slashed.

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Editorial Reviews

Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly
With the second adventure of Cecil Younger, a PI in southeastern Alaska, Straley reconfirms his claim to the regional territory he staked out in The Woman Who Married a Bear . Louise Root, who was raped at the Global gold mine where she worked as a cook, hires Cecil to gather evidence of the crime, although she won't tell him who assaulted her. Only days later, Louise's body is pulled from a river, her throat slit. Cecil is soon hired by Global's Lee Altman and Charlie Potts, who want to know ``everything'' about environmentalist Steven Mathews. They pay in cash, want no written records of the transaction and warn Cecil to ``stay clear of this Louise Root thing.'' But social worker Hannah Elder, Cecil's former lover and Louise's childhood friend, has no qualms about involving Cecil in her probe of Louise's death, especially after she discovers in Louise's things letters addressed to Steven marked ``return to sender.'' Once past the gimmicky assignments that initiate the plot, Straley's atmospheric prose takes hold and the action hums along, through unethical dealings and more killings, to the rugged, backwoods Alaska finale. Author tour. (Sept.)
Library Journal
Alaskan private investigator Cecil Younger has troubles with his autistic roommate, with ex-love Hannah, with any form of alcohol, and with the special assistant in charge of Louise Root's murder case. Louise hired Carl to find the men who raped her at the Otter Creek gold mine, but someone kills her before he has a chance. Cecil approaches his work at an angle: desiring a source of drink or food, he locates instead a likely source of information. A love and appreciation of Alaska shine through Straley's quietly compelling prose. For all collections.
Donna Seaman
The second of Straley's Alaskan mysteries featuring the "low-rent" sleuth Cecil Younger, this is a bluesy tale of corporate irresponsibility, murder, and bittersweet love. Cecil is an ex-drunk with a penchant for melancholy, which is reflected by the relentless rain that pounds the shabby little town of Sitka. It's raining when the cops pull the marble white body of Cecil's client, Louise Root, from the swollen, salmon-flashing river; it's raining when Cecil finds the corpse of his autistic roommate's beloved dog in a ditch, and it's raining when he and his feisty ex-lover Hannah plunge into the cold sea for a postsauna swim. Cecil is warned away from pursuing Louise's killers, since she was involved in exposing an evil oil company's hazardous waste scam, but he persists, even after accepting a stack of cash from that very company to investigate her cohort, a phony "spiritual environmentalist." Straley's story line is more than adequate, but the real appeal of this stormy mystery is its artful moodiness, which depicts a far grittier and more intriguingly complex Alaska than we usually envision.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781569479308
  • Publisher: Soho Press, Incorporated
  • Publication date: 7/1/2006
  • Series: Cecil Younger Series , #2
  • Sold by: Barnes & Noble
  • Format: eBook
  • Pages: 260
  • Sales rank: 581,339
  • File size: 378 KB

Meet the Author

The youngest of five children, John Straley was born in 1953. He received a BA in English and a certificate of completion in Horse Shoeing. He has brown eyes and likes 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. John 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.
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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 25, 2012

    I loved this book! If you enjoy adventure and excellent writing, you will love it too!

    John Straley pulls you through this exciting story on a golden rope tethered to descriptive poetry. The characters are alive with flaws,ambitions and questionable human decision making.If you are drawn to the "wild" in place and humans you will be drawn to Cecil who presents a real picture of Alaska and the individuals who live and work there. I also loved the natural portrayal and inclusion of native peoples. Wrap this up in a carefully crafted thriller and you have a WINNER.

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