What happens when you take the elements of a pulp fiction crime novel but move it up to the 80s and set it in Alaska? You get Cecil Younger, the alcoholic private investigator main character of The Woman Who Married a Bear. We meet Cecil the morning after a bender, as he battles a hangover while preparing to meet a potential new client. The client, an older Tlingit woman, asks Cecil to find out who killed her son, Louis Victor. Only problem is, Victor’s killer […]
Moody Detective Fiction in the North Country
The Woman Who Married a Bear by John Straley
