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Woman Who Married A Bear Paperback – 20 June 1996

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Cecil Younger has been asked to investigate a long-closed murder of a Tlingit hunting guide, even though the killer is already in an Alaskan jail. Younger discovers that the truth hinges on the meaning of a Tlingit myth, and the danger lies in finding it.

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Publisher : Orion; New edition (20 June 1996)
Language : English
Paperback : 225 pages
ISBN-10 : 0575600535
ISBN-13 : 978-0575600539
Dimensions : 11 x 1.5 x 18 cm

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John Straley lives in Alaska with his small son and his wife, a marine biologist who studies whales.

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Margaret Brough

The Woman Who married a Bear

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 30 August 2013

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Lively, informative about Alaska - its mixed culture, geography, fishing, problems due to its island nature, intercommunication needed by sea, and a good yarn, Margaret Brough

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uncle

great atmosphere

Reviewed in Germany on 30 September 2019

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A pleasant, entertaining read. Lovely locations, interesting characters. Great scene at the end where everything falsl into place, really cinematic. Once I feel like travelling to Alaska again, I will definitively read more of this author.

john martin

Worth the price of admission

Reviewed in the United States on 6 November 2017

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I don't usually care for hardboiled crime fiction written in the first person, featuring a flawed private detective, a la Sam Spade or Philip Marlowe. I fell in with this book, having read the author's excellent quirky storyCold Storage, Alaska. I soon realised this was a very different novel. It wasn't just a different genre, it was written way earlier -- in the early 1990s. The start wasn't encouraging to me either. Clever authors these days know not to indulge in huge info dumps.
But this novel has a lot of good points that drew me into the story.
It' has an excellent mystery storyline, which kept me guessing.
John Straley uses the sights, sounds and smells of Alaska to paint a vivid picture of the place.
He finds the right balance to write about indigenous people with sensibility, humour and pathos.
The ping and pong of many of his dialogue scenes soar -- offering a sneak preview of an author bound for better things.
Now for some negative comments:
I found the ending a bit lame, a bit like cheap and nasty television shows of the 1980s.
It didn't answer all my questions either.
You could say the first 15 per cent of the book and the last 15 per cent lost this book a star. But the middle 70 per cent was well worth the price of admission.

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Patto

A mostly drunk private investigator looks into a closed case.

Reviewed in the United States on 25 July 2018

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There’s already a crazy guy in jail for the murder of Louis Victor. But his mother is not satisfied and wants the whole truth. Old Mrs. Victor hires Cecil Younger to investigate. He has to probe the family dynamics to get at the truth. There’s a lot of Indian lore involved. Louis was Indian and a cunning hunter of bears. His mother, a good storyteller, recounts a story of bears to Cecil to guide his investigation.

There’s lots of local color. This is Alaska with wild landscapes and thrilling sightings of humpback wales and eagles, and towns full of howling sled dogs and roaring snow mobiles. Ravens seem to hang around Cecil a lot, when he’s not in a bar.

Cecil has a kind heart, but his alcoholism was a turn-off for me. I got tired of his drunken escapades and frequent black-outs. I found his poetic descriptions of seedy bars tedious. When he declares, “There is something ardent and romantic about getting drunk,” I could not agree.

The case had the potential to be interesting, but I will not be following this series. Yet I can see how some readers might like the poetic writing. And hard-drinking PI’s are a staple of crime fiction, so having a falling-down drunk for an investigator might not trouble most readers.

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Bear

Reviewed in the United States on 30 August 2019

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Wow! If you want a lesson in profanity, this is the book for you! I could not finish this trash.

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