Cold Water Burning - Softcover

Straley, John

3.81

218 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0553580760 ISBN 13: 9780553580761

Publisher: Bantam Books, 2001

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Alaskan private detective Cecil Younger is plunged into a deadly new case as he investigates the mysterious disappearance of a man, charged and acquitted in a vicious three-year-old multiple murder, and soon discovers that others connected with the original case are dying, one by one. By the author of The Angels Will Not Care. Reprint.

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Praise for Cold Water Burning
"Straley tells a heckuva good story, but the real pleasure in reading him is his prose. Like author Nevada Barr, he creates a vivid sense of place, and readers almost feel as if they've visited Sitka."
--Chicago Tribune

"Vivid seamanship, myriad plot skews, intriguing Alaska, and new dad Cecil, the poster boy for angst-riddled, flawed decisions, make this a standout."
--Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review

Praise for the Cecil Younger investigations
"Strong and sobering . . . With his storyteller's sense of dramatic action, [Straley's] in his glory."
--The New York Times Book Review

"Mr. Straley's prose continues to dazzle . . . His word-pictures have a hallucinatory brilliance appropriate . . . to the eerie beauty of the Alaskan landscape."
--The Wall Street Journal

"It's always a pleasure to read Straley's vivid studies of these folks--the slightly cracked, rugged and very funny characters of the Far North."
--The Seattle Times
Staley's done the impossible. He's reinvented the private eye novel."
--The Denver Post

"Like the Coen brothers on literary speed, John Straley is among the very best stylists of his generation."
--Ken Bruen, Shamus Award winning author of The Guard

"Lesser writers look to their characters' poor choices and attempts to rectify them, John Straley loves his characters for just those choices. Holderlin wrote: 'Poetically man dwells on the earth.' Some of us wind up in limericks, some in heroic couplets. But damned near every one of us, sooner or later, ends up in one of Straley's wise, wayward, wonderfully unhinged novels."
--James Sallis, author of Drive and the Lew Griffin mysteries

"What a wild wild ride. Straley grabs you by the throat and doesn't let go. You think left and he goes right. You think up and he goes down. Cecil Younger is a continuously great but flawed and wobbly investigating hero."
--Willy Vlautin, author of The Motel Life

"[A] superb series of Alaska mysteries . . . What Straley offers is excitement, high comedy and a mega work out for the senses."
--Literary Review

About the Author:

John Straley lives in Sitka, Alaska, with his son and wife, a marine biologist who studies whales. He is the Shamus Award-winning author of The Angels Will Not Care, The Woman Who Married a Bear, The Curious Eat Themselves, The Music of What Happens, and Death and the Language of Happiness.

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