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  • Baby's First Felony

  • A Cecil Younger Investigation
  • By: John Straley
  • Narrated by: David Chandler
  • Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
  • 4.3 out of 5 stars (47 ratings)

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Baby's First Felony

By: John Straley
Narrated by: David Chandler
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Shamus Award-winner John Straley returns to his critically acclaimed Cecil Younger detective series, set in Sitka, Alaska, a land of perfect beauty and not-so-perfect locals.

Criminal defense investigator Cecil Younger spends his days coaching would-be felons on how to avoid incriminating themselves. He even likes most of the rough characters who seek his services. So when Sherrie, a returning client with a good heart but a penchant for bad boys, asks him to track down some evidence that will help with her case, Cecil agrees. Maybe he'll find something that will get her abusive boyfriend locked up for good.

Cecil treks out to the shady apartment complex she mentioned, only to find his teenage daughter, Blossom, inside. He manages to get both the box Sherrie wanted and his daughter safely home, and later discovers the "evidence" is a large pile of cash - fifty thousand dollars, to be exact. That is how Cecil finds himself in violation of one of his own maxims: Nothing good comes of walking around with a lot of someone else's money.

In this case, "nothing good" turns out to be a deep freeze full of drug-stuffed fish, a murder witnessed at close range, and a kidnapping - Blossom is snatched as collateral for his cooperation. The reluctant, deeply unlucky investigator turns to an unlikely source for help: the misfit gang of clients he's helped to defend over the years. Together, they devise a plan to free Blossom and restore order to Sitka. But when your only hope for justice lies in the hands of a group of criminals, things don't always go according to plan.

©2018 John Straley (P)2018 Recorded Books
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Holy cow!

I know this was a fictional story but can you imagine going through something like this? A parent will do anything for their children. Cecil did just that. Great story! Props to the author and to David Chandler for always bringing the characters to life!

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Good read

This book was interesting, suspenseful, funny at times and I loved the narrators voice. It was a fun book. I will definitely buy more books by this author.

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Staley keeps up his chops

first david chandler is one of the best narrators there is, the book is funny and sad with a biting reality of human failings and hope

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