Cold Water Burning - Hardcover

Alaskan private detective Cecil Younger is plunged into a deadly new case as he investigates the mysterious disappearance of a man, charged and acquitted in a vicious three-year-old multiple murder, and soon discovers that others connected with the original case are dying, one by one. By the author of The Angels Will Not Care.

nning novels of John Straley are powerful, one-of-a-kind mysteries set in a world of perfect beauty and less-than-perfect lives. In his new novel, Straley plunges us into the wake of a horrific crime that has scarred its survivors, set a community on edge, and brought private investigator Cecil Younger into the eye of a deadly storm.

It could be argued that being a private investigator in the small town of Sitka, Alaska, is one of the worst career decisions a person with a high-school diploma can make. And the fact is, even by his own admission Cecil Younger is not even a good private investigator. Yet for some reason, call it fate, he cannot give it up. As if he needed proof, there was the case of the unsolved murders aboard the Mygirl.

Three years ago someone brutally killed four people on the scow, soaked the deck with gasoline, and set all the evidence ablaze as he escaped in a red tin skiff. Two young men got out with their lives and a third was charged wi