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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 Native American Alaska Fiction
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Although beautifully atmospherically expressive, the story is scattered and flat. A bit like the lack of dimensionality in its main character.

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I was a big fan of the written books and loved the Alaskan setting so am re-reading them on Audible. I generally avoid American accent narrators but this one was very good, probably because this is the first US novel I've listened to haha. Cecil Younger, the detective, seems to bring out the worst in everybody he encounters. I enjoyed the book.

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