John Straley, Sitka


John Straley is the author of six novels featuring the Alaskan private investigator Cecil Younger. The first book in that series, The Woman Who Married A Bear, won the 1993 Shamus award for best first novel.

Straley is a criminal investigator, a poet, and is currently the twelfth Writer Laureate of Alaska. His work has been featured on Fresh Air with Terry Gross and CBS Sunday Morning. He lives on the beach in Sitka, Alaska, with his wife and their son.


The Big Both Ways (Paperback)

$16.95
ISBN-13: 9780882407326
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Published: Alaska Northwest Books, 5/2008

$13.00
ISBN-13: 9781569474013
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Published: Soho Crime, 7/2005

The Big Both Ways (Hardcover)


ISBN-13: 9780882407395
Availability: Out of Print
Published: Alaska Northwest Books, 5/2008

$19.95
ISBN-13: 9781602230330
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Published: University of Alaska Press, 11/2008

$14.00
ISBN-13: 9781569474129
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Published: Soho Crime, 7/2006

The Music of What Happens (Mass Market Paperback)

$7.50
ISBN-13: 9780553572056
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Published: Crimeline, 2/1997