The Angels Will Not Care [Paperback]

Trapped on an Alaskan cruise line, PI Cecil Younger must expose a killer—and fast—or he may just find himself sleeping with the fishes.

Cecil Younger never thought it would come to this: running surveillance on a chicken coop that’s being raided by a fowl thief. But things have not exactly been breaking right lately for the Alaskan PI. The logical thing to do? Take a vacation, of course.

Well, it’s not exactly a vacation. Cecil has been paid to investigate a doctor aboard a cruise ship up the Alaskan coast following some complaints from his patients . . . that is, the patients who are still alive to complain. Worst of all, someone is leaving evidence pointing an accusing finger at Cecil. By the time the S.S.Westwardmakes landfall, Cecil will be wishing he was back guarding chickens.Praise forThe Angels Will Not Care

“Like the Coen brothers on literary speed, John Straley is among the very best stylists of his generation.”
—Ken Bruen, Shamus Award winning author ofThe Guard

“Now and then a writer dares to flout the rules and in so doing, carves out a niche that belongs to him alone. John Straley’s novels are like no others.”
—San Diego Tribune

“Absorbing and convincing . . . Straley’s a real writer.”
—The Washington Post Book World

“Staley’s done the impossible. He’s reinvented the private eye novel.”
—The Denver Post

Praise for the Cecil Younger Investigations

“Mr. Straley’s prose continues to dazzle . . . His word-pictures have a hallucinatory brilliance appropriate . . . to the eerie beauty of the Alaskan landscape.”
—The Wall Street Journal

“Mr. Straley writes with such brio.”
—The New Yolă!