- Hardcover: 304 pages
- Publisher: Minotaur Books; First Edition edition (Oct 27 2009)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 031236461X
- ISBN-13: 978-0312364618
- Product Dimensions: 24.3 x 16.1 x 2.7 cm
- Shipping Weight: 499 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #615,158 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Praise for James D. Doss
“Snake Dreams is the thirteenth novel in this series, and since it’s a very good one—funny, smart, and totally different—it’s a great place for readers to discover Moon.”
—Toronto Globe and Mail on Snake Dreams
“Outstanding… The narrator clearly is having fun as he unveils his tale, liberally laced with Native American lore, character idiosyncrasies, comedic asides, and a plot that weaves and twists like a highway in the Rockies.”
—Library Journal (starred review) on Snake Dreams
“James D. Doss’s novels about Charlie Moon… feel as if the author is sitting around a campfire, spinning a tall tale that engulfs a circle of listeners.… Doss’s tale is evocative of the area and of Indian lore, and his chatty, down-home style shines.”
—Florida Sun-Sentinel on Three Sisters
“Doss’s trademark humor keeps Charlie and Scott wisecracking as the plot spins smartly along to an unpredictable ending.… The most recent Charlie Moon mysteries still charm us with Western voices and ways.”
—Rocky Mountain News on Three Sisters
“Doss does for the Utes what Tony Hillerman has done for the Navajo.”
—The Denver Post
Product Description
Even with some of the toughest hombres and nastiest outlaws roaming the Southwest, bestselling author James D. Doss’s seven-foot-tall rancher and sometime tribal investigator Charlie Moon does a fair job on the side of the good guys. So it’s no surprise that he gets the call when the widow Loyola Montoya starts making a fuss about witches.
Witches?
She swears there’s a whole midnight brood lurking in the woods just off her property, mocking her with lewd songs and harassing her with the carcasses of dead animals. When no one takes her seriously—she has been known to cry wolf from time to time—she takes matters into her own hands, with disastrous results. By the time Charlie arrives, it’s too late to save her, and while he knows he can’t bring her back, that doesn’t mean he can’t help the widow get her revenge after all.
Told in Doss’s whimsical style, The Widow’s Revenge is a wonderfully tall tale that requires wide-open spaces and larger-than-life heroes like Charlie Moon to saddle up and make sure that justice is served.
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3.5 out of 5 stars (23 customer reviews)
14 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Another Disappointment, Nov 14 2009
By Alice N. Jones - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Widow's Revenge (Hardcover)
Once again Mr. Doss "stands on the sidelines" and reports this story rather than telling it in a way that allows the reader to "live" it. I find this a distracting way of writing as it makes the reader too aware of the author. Much of the time, I felt Mr. Doss' observations and comments were more an attempt to be cute or clever, rather than legitimately entertaining his readers with a narrative that emphasized the story and brought it to life. Mr Doss is capable of turning out wonderful mysteries that have his readers on the edge of their seats and biting their nails. This is not one of them.
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Disappointing!, Nov 3 2009
By Support Public Libraries - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Widow's Revenge (Hardcover)
I was so excited to get this book, then had a hard time finishing it. The author's writing style seemed to change with this title and it was distracting to the story...which may have been a good thing. I didn't care for the gratuitous murders or cannibalism, I didn't think it helped the plot at all. It all made me wonder if Doss really wrote this. Hopefully there will be another, better one coming next.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
not quite worthy of Charlie Moon, Nov 3 2009
By L. Allen - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Widow's Revenge (Hardcover)
A new James Doss novel is always eagerly anticipated. I was counting the days until this one arrived in the mail. Most series authors have a book that doesn't hold up somewhere in the series. This one has gone a long while holding on to 4-5 stars. After a long and fun run, this one didn't come up to speed. A lot more gruesome and horrific in detail than most, this book will not be re-read. The characters didn't develop, nothing new happened in any of their relationships and overall the story was flat. Cannibalism and cruel murders were inserted to keep the story moving. Vigilante justice won the day and all is again well on the Columbine. I will go back to eager anticipation that a story again comes to the Columbine and one worth reading arrives in my mailbox in 2011.
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