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The Curious Eat Themselves

“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.

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