Novelist John Straley has worked as a secretary, horseshoer, wilderness guide, trail crew foreman, millworker, machinist and private investigator. He moved to Sitka, Alaska in 1977 and has no plans of leaving. John’s wife, Jan Straley, is a marine biologist well-known for her extensive studies of humpback whales.
Books in order of publication:
Cecil Younger series
The Woman Who Married a Bear (1992)—winner of the 1993 Shamus Award
The Curious Eat Themselves (1993)
The Music of What Happens (1996)—winner of the Spotted Owl Award
Death and the Language of Happiness (1997)
The Angels Will not Care (1998)
Cold Water Burning (2001)
Baby’s First Felony (2018)
So Far and Good (2021)
Cold Storage series
The Big Both Ways (2008)
Cold Storage, Alaska (2014)
What is Time to a Pig? (2020)
Blown By the Same Wind (2022)
Stand Alone novel
Big Breath In – 2024
Poetry
The Rising and the Rain (2008)
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