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A defense investigator working out of Sitka, in the Alaskan coastalarchipelago, Cecil Younger walks a narrow line between the truth and what hisclients pay him to find.... "The Music of What Happens". Younger's got the child custody case from hell, and a client to match. Shrill, confrontational, and obsessed, Priscilla DeAngelo is sure her ex is conspiringwith a state senator to wrest her son from her. When she storms off to Juneaufor a showdown, Younger's custody case swiftly turns into a murder. Fired fromher defense team, Younger stays with the investigation. He's not sure whatkeeps him bulldogging the case--Priscilla's sister, his lost love; his regardfor truth as a rare commodity; or the head injury Priscilla's ex gave him--buthe won't let go until it's solved. But this time, the truth is less likely to set him free than to get himkilled...."The voice is so original that it can only belong to John Straley....Definitelyup there with the great ones".-- "Chicago Tribune" "Mr. Straley's prose continues to dazzle....His word-pictures have ahallucinatory brilliance appropriate...to the eerie beauty of the Alaskanlandscape".-- "The Wall Street Journal" "[An] energetic run-for-your-life adventure...that Mr. Straley writes withsuch brio".-- "The New York Times Book Review" "By now John Straley is much watched for....A humdinger of a book". "--The Boston Sunday Globe"
#2021Book120 This is my least favorite book so far in this series. I liked two of the new characters that were introduced, but the overall story was too all-over-the-place and more absurd than believable.
so-so
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