The Music of What Happens

A defense investigator working out of Sitka, in the Alaskan coastal archipelago, Cecil Younger walks a narrow line between the truth and what his clients pay him to find....The Music of What Happens.

Younger's got the child custody case from hell, and a client to match.??Shrill, confrontational, and obsessed, Priscilla DeAngelo is sure her ex is conspiring
with a state senator to wrest her son from her.??When she storms off to Juneau for a showdown, Younger's custody case swiftly turns into a murder.??Fired from her defense team, Younger stays with the investigation.??He's not sure what keeps him bulldogging the case--Priscilla's sister, his lost love; his regard
for truth as a rare commodity; or the head injury Priscilla's ex gave him--but he won't let go until it's solved.??

But this time, the truth is less likely to set him free than to get him
killed....

John Straley lives in Sitka, Alaska, with his wife, a marine biologist who studies whales. He is the Shamus Award–winning author of?The Angels Will Not Care,?The Woman Who Married a Bear,?The Curious Eat Themselves,?The Music of What Happens, and?Death and the Language of Happiness.