| Grandmother Spider Contributor(s): Doss, James D. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0380803941 ISBN-13: 9780380803941 Publisher: William Morrow & Company OUR PRICE: $8.54 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2001 Annotation: Southern Ute Acting Chief of Police Charlie Moon does not accept a supernatural explanation for recent events. Moon's aunt, Ute shaman Daisy Perika, says a legendary giant spider monster is responsible for an abduction and a bizarre decapitation. But the tribal policeman feels in his gut that the explanation is murder--most probably by human hands. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Mystery & Detective - Police Procedural - Fiction | Thrillers - Suspense - Fiction | Fantasy - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Series: Charlie Moon Mysteries (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 1.01" H x 4.22" W x 6.76" (0.39 lbs) 384 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Mountains - Cultural Region - Western U.S. - Ethnic Orientation - Native American - Geographic Orientation - Colorado |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A lawman with a hardy appetite for life and an unshakable faith in the explicable, Southern Ute Acting Chief of Police Charlie Moon is not prepared to accept a purely supernatural explanation for the recent strange events of April 1. Nevertheless, something carried off Tommy Tonompicket and his unlikely drinking companion, research scientist William Pizinski, in the black chill of the Colorado night. And something ripped the head off a man outside a lonely cabin in the mountains...and left two large, fanglike punctures in his chest. And though Charlie's eccentric old aunt, the shaman Daisy Perika, claims the gargantuan avenging arachnid Grandmother Spider has risen up from the depths of Navajo Lake, the hulking, good-natured tribal policeman feels in his gut that this is murder, pure if not simple, and most probably by human hands. |
Contributor Bio(s): Doss, James D.: - James D. Doss, recently retired from the technical staff of Los Alamos National Laboratory, now spends most of his time in a small cabin above Taos -- writing mystery fiction. He also travels to the fascinating locations where his stories take place, often camping in remote areas to absorb the impression of an Anasazi ruin, a deep canyon, an arid mesa, or a Sun Dance. His Shaman series includes The Shaman Sings, The Shaman Laughs, The Shaman's Bones, The Shaman's Game, The Night Visitor, and Grandmother Spider. The unusual plots are a mix of high technology and mysticism (Shaman Sings), bizarre animal mutilations (Shaman Laughs), theft of a sacred artifact (Shaman's Bones), an unprecedented form of murder and revenge at the Sun Dance (Shaman's Game), a most peculiar haunting followed by the discovery of an astonishing fossil (Night Visitor), and -- because a small girl has killed a spider without performing the prescribed ritual -- the appearance of a monstrous, murderous, eight-legged creature on the reservation (Grandmother Spider, of course!). |