The Music of What Happens

The Music of What Happens by Straley, John. mass_market edition. ISBN: 9780553572056.

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. Youngers 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, Youngers custody case swiftly turns into a murder. Fired from her defense team, Younger stays with the investigation. Hes not sure what keeps him bulldogging the case--Priscillas sister, his lost love; his regard for truth as a rare commodity; or the head injury Priscillas ex gave him--but he wont let go until its solved. But this time, the truth is less likely to set him free than to get him killed....