The Music of What Happens
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4.5 • 6 Ratings
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- $9.99
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Publisher Description
In the third entry to the series, Alaska P.I. Cecil Younger is fresh out of rehab with a head wound, a child custody case from hell, and the clients to match.
Confrontational and obsessed, Priscilla DeAngelo is sure her ex is conspiring with a state senator to wrest her son from her, and thus, she hires Cecil Younger to investigate. This is the first time Younger has to deal with lawyers in flashy suits and overused paper shredders. When she storms off to Juneau for a showdown, Younger's custody case swiftly turns into a murder. Younger is fired from the defense team, but he can't stop thinking about the case, and keeps on with the investigation alone. He's not sure what keeps him involved. Is it Priscilla's sister (his lost love)? His regard for truth as a rare commodity? Or the head injury Priscilla's ex gave him?
But there's one thing he knows: he won't let go until it's solved, even if it kills him.
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After this case, Xanax-popping PI Cecil Younger of Sitka, Alaska, may make it a rule never to work for friends. Priscilla DeAngelo recruits him to help her in a bitter custody battle over her son. In no time, Cecil confronts her ex and finds himself flat on the pavement of a Seattle parking lot. Back in Juneau, Priscilla confronts Senator Wilfred Taylor, whom she suspects of conspiring to keep her son away from her, and the senator ends up dead in the stairwell. With Priscilla under arrest for murder, Cecil finds himself not only working on the custody case but reacquainting himself with an old flame, Priscilla's sister, Jane Marie, and locking horns with legendary defense attorney Harrison Teller, who seems to have a finger in every pie. A web of subplots adds to the depth of a story that encompasses possible organized crime, senatorial paper shredding and obsessive love. By its conclusion, the whirlwind ride leaves the reader gasping for breath, as Shamus Award-winning Straley (The Woman Who Married a Bear) tells a dark story illuminated by the wild vigor of both the Alaskan landscape and his own writing.
