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Big Breath In | Bookreporter.com
With the release of THE WOMAN WHO MARRIED A BEAR in 1995, John Straley began an award-winning career that would include both the Cecil Younger and Cold Storage mystery series that have spawned legions of fans. Straley continues to bring his special style of crime noir writing with the release of BIG BREATH IN. This is not just a novel, but an emotional experience that features a protagonist who will pull on your heartstrings as you go on this adventure with her.
John Straley: Nature and My Life of Crime
My favorite detectives are involved studying their surrounding world as much as they are involved in solving crimes. Think of Sherlock Holmes in The Hound of the Baskervilles or Miss Marple in her garden. James Lee Burke in Montana. Think of Jim Hall or Carl Hiaasen in South Florida. I am drawn to detectives as naturalists, and I think I came by this preference honestly. Article continues after advertisement My mother loved to read. She read crime novels by the hundreds. Often one or two books a week.
Book review: Inspired by his wife, latest John Straley novel features a fierce woman biologist
“Big Breath In” By John Straley; Soho Press, 2024; 288 pages; $28.95. John Straley, the acclaimed Alaska author of 13 crime novels in two series, is back with a stand-alone novel. Straley’s previous books, which most recently include “So Far and Good” and “Blown by the Same Wind,” have always drawn upon his experience working as a criminal defense investigator. He’s also made considerable use of the setting, particularly the rain-soaked environment of Southeast Alaska.
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A post-Christmas spa date with Santa
Santa relaxes by the fire with the Nice List between treatments at the North Pole Spa. Although most of the Jolly Old Elf’s work is done at the stroke of midnight on Christmas Eve, he’s still feeling every chimney by the next morning. “I’ve got sore spots where I didn’t know I had spots, if you know what I’m saying,” Santa told KCAW. (“Relaxed Santa” by Pest15 is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0.) Catch a rare glimpse of Santa as he unwinds from a night of delivering millions of toys around the globe.
Book review: John Straley’s latest weaves together lively plots, conspiracy theories and modern sensibilities
“Blown by the Same Wind” By John Straley; Soho Crime, 2022; 207 pages; $27.95. John Straley, one of Alaska’s best-known and best-loved writers, continues to deliver. Along with his eight (so far) Cecil Younger Investigation novels, he’s now produced a fourth volume in the newer Cold Storage series. Cold Storage is his fictional Southeast Alaska town made up of boardwalks, fishing boats and a cannery, a bar and cafe, and a cast of oddball characters.
10 New Books Coming Out This Week
Another week, another batch of books for your TBR pile. Happy reading, folks. * Elyse Friedman, The Opportunist (MIRA) “This perfectly paced novel mixes intrigue, drama, and mystery. Each reveal is timed to keep readers glued to the pages, and no character is safe from the others’ lies. With so many appealing factors, this book will be popular with a wide range of patrons.” –Booklist Josh Haven, Fake Money, Blue Smoke (Mysterious Press) “Keeps the suspense high without sacrificing plausibility.
The New Annotated Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson, edited by Leslie S. Klinger. Mysterious, $39.95 (288p) ISBN 978-1-61316-321-4 In this attractive volume, Edgar winner Klinger (The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes) employs his usual diligent research and thoughtful analysis to deepen appreciation of a genre classic.
The Kind to Kill
Tessa Wegert. Severn, $29.99 (256p) ISBN 978-1-4483-0713-5 Wegert’s fine fourth crime thriller featuring Shanna Merchant (after Dead Wind) finds Merchant, now a senior investigator for the New York State Police in Alexandria Bay, N.Y., whose expertise is missing persons, continuing to try to cope with her own victimization. Merchant was once a respected member of the NYPD, until she was captured by the serial killer she’d been hunting, Blake Bram, and learned he was her own cousin.
Amok: A Dox Thriller
Barry Eisler. Thomas & Mercer, $28.99 (380p) ISBN 978-1-5420-0565-4 Last seen in 2021’s The Chaos Kind, former Marine sniper Dox, a supporting character in bestseller Eisler’s John Rain and Livia Lone franchises, takes center stage in this exciting series launch. In 1991, Dox has just returned from an undercover mission in Afghanistan and is spinning his wheels in his hometown, Tuscola, Tex., dealing with family problems, including the imminent release of his violent, abusive father from prison.
The Mad, Mad Murders of Marigold Way
Raymond Benson. Beaufort, $24.95 (350p) ISBN 978-0-8253-0991-5 This stellar mystery set in May 2020 from Benson (Blues in the Dark) focuses on TV writer turned novelist Scott Hatcher and Rachel Bergman, Scott’s dutiful housewife neighbor, who live in Lincoln Grove, a quiet Chicago suburb. When their respective spouses turn out to have gone missing on the same day, Lt. Pat Dante, of the Lincoln Grove PD, investigates.
Mother Daughter Traitor Spy
Susan Elia MacNeal. Bantam, $28 (336p) ISBN 978-0-593-15695-7 In this riveting standalone from Edgar finalist MacNeal (the Maggie Hope WWII mysteries), mother and daughter Violet (“Vi”) and Veronica Grace move from New York to Santa Monica in 1940 and encounter homegrown Nazis. Veronica is smarting from the fallout of a love affair that has derailed her budding journalism career, and Vi is looking for a new path after her husband’s death.
The Covid-19 Effect: Why Automation in the Margin Call Process is More Important than Ever
By John Straley, Executive Director, Institutional Trade Processing, DTCC Over the past several months, the entire financial industry, and the world, has had to radically adjust how we work together. This is especially true with crucial functions like managing margin calls. This topic has received greater attention than usual, in the same way that we often notice something when there is trouble – and when market volatility has created a perfect storm of asset sales and margin calls.
Extra time: Phase 4, 5 and now 6 of Initial Margin rules
Extra time: Phase 4, 5 and now 6 of Initial Margin rules By John Straley, Chief Operating Officer at GlobalCollateral Ltd.
Baby's First Felony
by John Straley Criminal defence investigator Cecil Younger’s favour for a client gets him into bad trouble. And when his daughter is kidnapped, he has to take extraordinary measures. Review Cecil Younger is an investigator for the Public Defender Agency in Sitka, Alaska. Most of his clients face penalties for drink, drugs or minor assault, and are in need of a little help. So when repeat offender Sherrie asks him to retrieve a box which might help her avoid a domestic violence charge, Cecil agrees.
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FICTIONMeet Me at the MuseumIn Denmark, Professor Anders Larsen, an urbane man of facts, has lost his wife and his hopes for the future. On an isolated English farm, Tina Hopgood is trapped in a life she doesn’t remember choosing. Both believe their love stories are over. Brought together by a shared fascination with the “Tollund Man,” subject of Seamus Heaney’s famous poem, they begin writing letters to one another. An unexpected friendship blooms.
BABY'S FIRST FELONY
After 17 years, Straley checks back in with Cecil Younger and the citizens of Sitka, Alaska, and finds them as wacky as ever and even more murderous—a description that applies this time to Cecil as well. When criminal defense investigators for the Public Defender Agency find themselves in courthouses, it’s not unusual for them to say, “If it please the Court,” as Cecil does in opening his narrative.
Ricketts, Calvin and the charisma of an Alaska place
Editor’s note: "Ricketts, Calvin and the Charisma of Place" by John Straley is an excerpt from the new book “Ed Ricketts from Cannery Row to Sitka, Alaska,” edited by Janice Straley.
Find the Good by Heather Lende
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As the obituary writer in a spectacularly beautiful but often dangerous spit of land in Alaska, Heather Lende knows something about last words and lives well lived. Now she’s distilled what she’s learned about how to live a more exhilarating and meaningful life into three words: find the good. It’s that simple — and that hard. Quirky and profound, individual and universal, Find the Good offers up short chapters that help us unlearn the habit — and it is a habit — of seeing only the negatives.
By Andrew Tolan, Kirkus Reviews, Anne Lamott, John Straley, Herman Melville, Rob Hart Verified, Billy Collins, Heather Lende, Eric Kimmel
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