John Straley brings his storytelling abilities to a new level in this completely original period crime story.
It?s 1935 and Slip Wilson rattled by the gruesome accidental death of a coworker has quit his job at a logging camp hoping to make a clean start in Seattle. But along the way he rescues a woman and her young niece from their car in a ditch and his life takes a hard turn. The woman Ellie Hobbes is an anarchist with big dreams?but first she has to take care of that pesky dead body in the trunk of her car.
So begins the action that will take Slip Ellie her niece and her noisy yellow bird on a thrilling adventure up the Inside Passage from Puget Sound to Alaska.
