John Straley

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  • Bibliography:
    15 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    May 1992
  • Latest Book:
    November 2024
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Full Series List in Order

Cecil Younger

1 - The Woman Who Married a Bear (May-1992)
2 - The Curious Eat Themselves (Sep-1993)
3 - The Music of What Happens (Feb-1996)
4 - Death and the Language of Happiness (Apr-1997)
5 - The Angels Will Not Care (Aug-1998)
6 - Cold Water Burning (Jan-2001)
7 - Baby's First Felony (Jul-2018)
8 - So Far and Good (Dec-2021)

A Cold Storage Novel

1 - The Big Both Ways (May-2008)
2 - Cold Storage, Alaska (Feb-2014)
3 - What Is Time to a Pig? (Feb-2020)
4 - Blown by the Same Wind (Dec-2022)

Book List in Order: 15 titles

  • The Woman Who Married a Bear

    Cecil Younger - 1

    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 t...

  • The Curious Eat Themselves

    Cecil Younger - 2

    "No one really hires me to find the truth. They hire me to imagine their innocence." Cecil Younger is a defense investigator working out of Sitka, in the Alaskan coastal archipelago. In this landscape of cold mists and rain, Younger shares a house wi...

  • The Music of What Happens

    Cecil Younger - 3

    A defense investigator working out of Sitka, in the Alaskan coastal archipelago, Cecil Younger walks a narrow line between the truth and what his clients pay him to find.... Younger's got the child custody case from hell, and a client to match. Sh...

  • Death and the Language of Happiness

    Cecil Younger - 4

    Ninety-seven-year-old William Flynn is none too clear on what's happened this week, but he's razor-sharp on the events of eight decades past. What's happened this week is the murder of Angela Ramirez, a young woman who used to visit Flynn in the nurs...

  • The Angels Will Not Care

    Cecil Younger - 5

    Enter Sonny Walters, of the Great Circle Cruise Lines, whose first-class ship has a first-class problem. It seems there's some controversy surrounding the ship's doctor. More than that, Mr. Walters won't say, except that he will give Cecil Younger fr...

  • Cold Water Burning

    Cecil Younger - 6

    P.I. Cecil Younger works out of Sitka, Alaska, a land of perfect beauty and not-so-perfect lives, where there is nothing more dangerous than an unsolved crime -- except maybe the man trying to solve it.... Three years ago someone brutally killed f...

  • Lovely

    in Powers of Detection

    Investigations of a Different Kind Conjured from the minds of today's most innovative authors, Powers of Detection features a dozen tales of mystery and fantasy, set in worlds where sleuths may wield wands instead of firearms--and criminals may be...

  • The Big Both Ways

    A Cold Storage Novel - 1

    Slip Wilson is just trying to find work, food and a little justice when he hooks up with a bottle-blonde, Ellie Hobbes, who drags him into her edgy, ragtag life. At the last minute, Ellie, a notorious “red” union organizer who faces mounting prob...

  • Weight of the World

    in Unusual Suspects

    All-new from the top names in mystery and fantasy? including a never-beforepublished Sookie Stackhouse story from Charlaine Harris! This follow-up to Powers of Detection showcases bestselling and award-winning names from Simon Green to Laurie King...



  • Cold Storage, Alaska

    A Cold Storage Novel - 2

    An offbeat, often hilarious crime novel set in the sleepy Alaskan town of Cold Storage from the Shamus Award winning author of the Cecil Younger series. Cold Storage, Alaska, is a remote fishing outpost where salmonberries sparkle in the morning...

  • Baby's First Felony

    Cecil Younger - 7

    Shamus Award-winner John Straley returns to his critically acclaimed Cecil Younger detective series, set in Sitka, Alaska, a land of perfect beauty and not-so-perfect locals. Criminal defense investigator Cecil Younger spends his days coaching wou...

  • What Is Time to a Pig?

    A Cold Storage Novel - 3

    From the wild and wonderful mind of Shamus Award-winning author John Straley comes a poetic masterpiece that explores the ugly truths of the prison industrial complex, the crumbling state of humanity, the role memory plays in the formation of the sel...

  • So Far and Good

    Cecil Younger - 8

    To his chagrin, Alaskan PI Cecil Younger learns his teenage daughter has launched her own detective agency. But when her first case goes awry, she's going to need some help from an unlikely source: her father, who's currently locked up in pri...

  • Blown by the Same Wind

    A Cold Storage Novel - 4

    Mysterious dreams of grizzly bears, a bumbling FBI agent, and a tense hostage negotiation have the town of Cold Storage, Alaska, turned upside down. Things in the sleepy fishing town of Cold Storage, Alaska, are changing. It’s the summer of 1968...

  • Big Breath In

    This new standalone from the former Writer Laureate of Alaska and author of the acclaimed Cecil Younger series introduces an amateur sleuth with an ax to grind -- and a child to save.Diagnosed with terminal cancer, retired marine biologist Delp...

Award-Winning Books by John Straley

The Woman Who Married a Bear
1992 Shamus Award -- First P.I. Novel


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

John Straley has published 15 books.

The next book by John Straley, Big Breath In, will be published in November 2024.

The first book by John Straley, The Woman Who Married a Bear, was published in May 1992.

Yes. John Straley has 2 series.
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