Death and the Language of Happiness

John Straley

Oct 2018 · RB Media · Narrated by David Chandler

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7 hr 19 min

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The fourth entry to John Straley's Alaska P.I. series finds Cecil Younger with a contract to kill. Cecil Younger is a man that takes comfort in the absurdity of the universe, and the universe is obliging him when he gets a call from his lawyer and psychiatrist, who offers him a job. A client wants to hire Younger to kill someone. Though common sense tells him murder just isn't a good career move, his finances tell him it can't hurt to meet his potential client, hoping he can succeed in appeasing him-without a dead body. Joined by the usual cast of misfits-his lawyer/psychiatrist Dickie Stein, his girlfriend Jane Marie, and his ward Todd-Cecil investigates a murder that brings him back to the Centralia Massacre of 1919, an event in Alaskan history that seems to still be reaching into the present-and its dark, chilly grasp may extend to Cecil himself.

About the author

A former investigator for the Public Defender of the State of Alaska, John Straley has been a horseshoer, wilderness ranger, and oral historian. He has been hit by lightning and attacked by a bear. He owns his own private investigation business and lives with his family in Sitka, Alaska. He is the author of six novels, including The Music of What Happens and Death and the language of Happiness.

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