Grandmother Spider: A Charlie Moon Mystery (Charlie Moon Mysteries)

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. denver Rocky Mountain News doss's Best Yet. 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 "A lawman with a hardy appetite for life and an unshakable faith in the explicable and rational, Charlie Moon has never taken his grumpy aunt Daisy's visions and premonitions seriously. He is especially skeptical of the old woman's stories about "Grandmother Spider," a gargantuan avenging arachnid that alledly rises up out of Navajo Lake in search of human prey. But on April first, in the still, utter darkness of the Colorado night, Daisy and her young ward, Sarah, see something striding across the Canon del Espiritu."--Jacket Ute policeman Charlie Moon does not much believe in his Aunt Daisy's visions, but her story about seeing a gargantuan arachnid rise up out of Navajo Lake seems to coincide a little too neatly with a series of murders Title from PDF title page (viewed on Mar. 10, 2008).