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Name: The Woman Who Married a Bear

Author: John Straley
Year: 1992
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Genres/categories: Mystery, Award winners, Fiction, Thriller, Crime

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Winner of the Shamus award for Best First PI Novel in 1993.

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, but murder is uncommon enough to be widely noted--like the Indian big-game guide killed by an ex-miner obeying voices from the earth's center. The victim's mother, a Tlingit Indian, summons to her nursing home a local investigator named Cecil Younger. The case is old and ostensibly solved. She wants him to investigate anyway. What he unearths is a virtual fairytale contrived to hide a primal conspiracy.
This book is part of the "Cecil Younger" series.
Here are some other books from this series:
The Curious Eat Themselves
First published 1993
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The Music of What Happens
First published 1996
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The Angels Will Not Care
First published 1998
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