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Yachats-area Writer Adds New Book–Doug Yunker (Jamaice)

Yachats-area Writer Adds New Book–Doug Yunker (Jamaice)

Thanks for the ‘Heads Up’ from Karl Drobnic (Ethiopia 1966-68) Yachats-area “cozy mystery” writer adds new book to his body of work October 8, 2024 Quinton SmithDoug Yunker is a regular at the Beach Daisy wine shop in Yachats, whose (fictitious) owner and business plays a central role in his new book, “Happy Endings.” By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews Doug Yunker has been a small town paperboy, conscientious objector, Peace Corps volunteer, social worker and college professor and administrator. Now, the soon-to-be 82-year-old resident of Tenmile is a mystery writer. Yunker recently self-published Happy Endings: A Yachats Cozy Mystery, the inaugural book in a potential series that kills off an elderly resident of Yachats within its first three pages. It’s not Yunker’s first book. Another self-published novel, Pimento Cove, is about his four years in Jamacia during the Peace Corps. A memoir, A Paperboy’s Own Story, is drawn from a boy’s conversations . . .

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