· Cold Storage, Alaska by John Straley. Click here for the lowest price! MP3 CD, , · John Straley's thoroughly enjoyable and slightly wacko "Cold Storage Alaska" opens with former drug dealer, Clive "the Milkman" McMahon, heading home to Cold Storage after he's released from a Seattle prison after serving a term for dealing cocaine. In prison, he elected isolation and Bible study, and discovered that animals sometimes talk to him/5(K). An offbeat, often hilarious crime novel set in the sleepy Alaskan town of Cold Storage from the Shamus Award winning author of the Cecil Younger series. Cold Storage, Alaska, is a remote fishing outpost where salmonberries sparkle in the morning frost and where you just might catch a King Salmon if you’re zen enough to wait for it/5().
By John Straley. Soho Press, pages. $ Who can resist a novel that begins with this: "It was late fall on the road to the dump just outside of Cold Storage, Alaska, when the mouse. Cold Storage, Alaska by John Straley ISBN ISBN Hardback; New York: Soho Press, ; ISBN John Straley, a criminal investigator for the state of Alaska, lives in Sitka with his son and wife, a marine biologist who studies whales. He is the Shamus Award-winning author of The Curious Eat. Find many great new used options and get the best deals for Cold Storage, Alaska by John Straley at the best online prices at eBay! Free shipping for many products!
+Cold Storage, Alaska Clive McCahon is a criminal, or at least he was. He was convicted for dealing coke. But now his seven-year prison stint is over and he’s back home. Clive wants to forget the past and to pour his efforts into helping Miles, the younger sibling who diligently cared for their ailing mother while Clive was away causing trouble. Straley creates an idiosyncratic community in the inhabitants of Cold Storage, a run down Alaskan fishing village. The narrative carries one along comfortably and with extended interest. Without wishing to spoil the book for those who have not yet read it my main criticisms are that there is not enough dark material to make this a great book and not quite enough humour to make it laugh out loud funny. Publisher's Summary. Cold Storage, Alaska, is a remote fishing outpost where salmonberries sparkle in the morning frost and where you just might catch a King Salmon if you're Zen enough to wait for it. Settled in by Norse fishermen who liked to skinny dip in its natural hot springs, the town enjoyed prosperity in the midth century, at the height of the frozen fish boom.
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