This was a first-reads giveaway, but YOU can buy and read in early February. Just sprung from prison, he's returning to his hometown, determined to walk the straight and narrow.IF he can avoid a rabid State Trooper determined to send him back to the pen, AND an old 'business' associate out to 'tie up some loose ends.' Wackiness ensues. Soon to join the mix is Clive McCahon, Miles' younger brother. They look to Miles McCahon to patch up their wounds and keep them healthy enough to drink another day. Meet the strange and wonderful denizens/characters of Cold Storage, Alaska, the most likable group of 'drunks and depressives' you're likely to encounter. That kind of ruined things for me.īut now, my faith in our largest state has been restored. Then I found out, people like Ted Stevens and Sarah Palin live there, too. back when I thought the place was populated with the cast of 'Northern Exposure'. 'No, actually most of the people in this town are drunks or depressives, but we have our funny moments.' Lance continued feeding sticks into the stove, the flames lighting his face. 'Is everyone in this town a goddamn comedian?' Will his arrival in Cold Storage be a breath of fresh air for the sleepy, depopulated town? Or will Clive’s arrival turn the whole place upside down? His vengeful old business partner is hot on his heels, a stick-in-the-mud State Trooper is dying to bust Clive for narcotics, and, to complicate everything, Clive might be going insane-lately, he’s been hearing animals talking to him.

But Clive doesn’t realize the trouble he’s bringing home.

He has a lot to make up to his younger brother, Miles, who has dutifully been taking care of their ailing mother. But now the cold storage plant is all but abandoned and the town is withering.Ĭlive “The Milkman” McCahon returns to his tiny Alaska hometown after a seven-year jail stint for dealing coke. Settled in 1935 by Norse fishermen who liked to skinny dip in its natural hot springs, the town enjoyed prosperity at the height of the frozen fish boom. 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.Ĭold 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.

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