James D. Doss, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $24.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-312-31742-3
With all the skill and timing of a master magician, Doss unfolds a meticulous plot laced with a delicious sense of humor and set against a vivid southern Colorado setting in his ninth novel (after 2003's Dead Soul
) to feature Ute tribal...
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James D. Doss. Minotaur, $25.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-312-61370-9
Charlie Moon looks into several puzzles that confound Scott Paris, the Granite Creek, Colo., police chief, in Doss’s amusing 16th adventure featuring the Ute Indian part-time deputy and full-time rancher (after 2010’s A Dead Man’s Tale). Doss’s old-f
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James D. Doss, Author Avon Books $6.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-380-72690-5
According to PW's starred review, Doss's second Charlie Moon mystery (set on an Ute Indian reservation) ""combines... the sacred and profane, with grace and suspense."" (Apr.)
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James D. Doss, Author St. Martin's Press $20.95 (230p) ISBN 978-0-312-10547-1
Science and mysticism, ghosts and hard-edged cop work combine to stunning effect in this first novel set in Native American lands of Colorado. Daisy Perika, an aged Ute shaman, sees images of imminent death in her dreams and outside her remote...
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James D. Doss, Author Minotaur Books $24.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-312-31744-7
A dash of humor and a sprinkling of romance season Doss's eighth Charlie Moon mystery (after 2002's White Shell Woman). The part-time Ute tribal investigator and full-time rancher looks into the death of fellow tribesman Billy Smoke, murdered...
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James D. Doss, Author William Morrow & Company $23 (293p) ISBN 978-0-380-97722-2
Mysteries with Native American characters seem to come in two varieties: tough-minded and realistic (think Tony Hillerman's Leaphorn/Chee stories and Peter Bowen's books about Montana's Gabriel Du Pr ), or softer and sillierDlike Doss's Shaman...
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James D. Doss, Author William Morrow & Company $23 (392p) ISBN 978-0-380-97721-5
An old lady shaman, four backbiting paleontologists, a con man, two orphans, two cops and a ghost: from this grab bag of real and unreal Americans, Doss conjures up his fifth Shaman mystery, a quirky, satisfying follow-up to last year's The Shaman's
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James D. Doss, Author William Morrow & Company $22 (370p) ISBN 978-0-380-97425-2
For the Ute Indians of southwestern Colorado, the Sun Dance is a quest for healing and connection with the higher power. It is also a physically punishing ritual. When three people die during two dances, tribal police officer Charlie Moon (in the...
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James D. Doss, Author William Morrow & Company $22 (276p) ISBN 978-0-380-97424-5
When aged Ute shaman Daisy Perika has a vision of blood raining from the sky, it means trouble for her nephew, tribal policeman Charlie Moon, and his friend Scott Parris, police chief of Granite City, Colo. In their third compelling adventure (after
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James D. Doss, Minotaur, $24.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-312-61369-3
Charlie Moon and his best friend, Scott Parris, the chief of police of upscale Granite City, Colo., face a doozy of a case even by their standards in Doss's folksy 15th mystery featuring the Ute tribal investigator (after 2009's The Widow's Revenge):
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James D. Doss, Author . Minotaur $24.99 (290p) ISBN 978-0-312-36461-8
When “witches” bother widow Loyola Montoya at the start of Doss's enjoyable 14th mystery to feature part-time Ute tribal investigator Charlie Moon (after 2008's Snake Dreams
), “the strange old Apache woman” phones...
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James D. Doss, Author St. Martin’s Minotaur $24.95 (308p) ISBN 978-0-312-36460-1
At the start of Doss’s entertaining 13th mystery to feature Ute investigator Charlie Moon (after 2007’s Three Sisters
), the spirit of recently murdered Chiquita Yazzi expresses concern for her teenage daughter, Nancy, as well she should,
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James D. Doss, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $24.95 (307p) ISBN 978-0-312-36459-5
The12th Charlie Moon mystery (after 2006's Stone Butterfly
) from world-class storyteller Doss has more twists and turns than the road to Charlie's acerbic Aunt Daisy's. The ratings for Colorado's most famous TV psychic,...
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James D. Doss, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $24.95 (294p) ISBN 978-0-312-34054-4
In Doss's entertaining 11th Charlie Moon mystery (after 2005's Shadow Man
), Sarah Frank, the 14-year-old Ute-Papago daughter of Moon's late friend Provo Frank, finds herself wanted for the murder of her crotchety part-time employer, Ben
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James D. Doss, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $23.95 (326p) ISBN 978-0-312-34053-7
In Doss's highly entertaining 10th Charlie Moon mystery (after 2004's The Witch's Tongue
), the rancher and Ute tribal investigator takes on his most unlovable client, orthodontist Manfred Wilhelm Blinkoe. The "mildly eccentric"...
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James D. Doss, Author . Morrow $23.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-06-019932-6
Early in Doss's seventh book (after 2001's Grandmother Spider) about former Ute policeman turned cattle rancher Charlie Moon, Charlie's old Aunt Daisy—a tribal shaman and all-around tough cookie—is being bored to tears by...
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James D. Doss. Minotaur, $25.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-312-61371-6
The 17th and last Charlie Moon mystery (after 2011’s Coffin Man) from Doss (1939–2012) forms a fitting capstone to this offbeat western series. When purse-snatcher LeRoy Hooten expires shortly after Charlie’s friend Scott Parris, the police chief of
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