David Chandler

Profiles the Viking world of pillage and plunder, but also Viking religion, arts and crafts. Features footage of ancient sites, re-creations and reconstruction, commentary and analyses, and period imagery.

Kinky Friedman has always maintained his Kinkster persona and hidden Richard Friedman from the public eye. Using one-liners, humor, and occasional rudeness, he follows the advice of his friend Bob Dylan to keep an aura of mystery. Author Mary Lou Sullivan spent many contentious days and nights at Kinky's Texas Hill Country ranch before he trusted her enough to open up and speak candidly. Best known as an irreverent cigar-chomping Jewish country-and-western...

When local woman Louise Root asks private detective Cecil Younger to investigate her rape at the Otter Creek gold mine, he agrees. After all, Louise is a close friend of his ex. Maybe helping her out could improve Hannah?s opinion of him. But before Cecil can make progress on the case, he witnesses Alaska state troopers fishing her body out of the ocean?not exactly the resolution he had in mind.

The fourth entry to John Straley's Alaska P.I. series finds Cecil Younger with a contract to kill. Cecil Younger is a man that takes comfort in the absurdity of the universe, and the universe is obliging him when he gets a call from his lawyer and psychiatrist, who offers him a job. A client wants to hire Younger to kill someone. Though common sense tells him murder just isn't a good career move, his finances tell him it can't hurt to meet his potential...

In Alaska, a child custody fight leads to murder. The story begins when a mother accuses a state senator of conspiracy with her ex-husband to deny her custody of their child. She confronts the senator, he is killed and she is arrested. But did she do it, or did someone frame her? PI Younger investigates. By the author of The Woman Who Married a Bear.

The classic tale of Robin Hood who steals from the rich and gives to the poor.