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Informationen zum Autor 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!). Zusammenfassung The world of Daisy Perika ia a realm of shadows, omens, and restless spirits. In tribal policeman Charlie Moon's world, good and evil manifest themselves in more explainable, human ways. Yet the irascible old Ute shaman and her huge, good-natured nephew inhabit the same hard and lonely Colorado country. And now the parched earth has yielded up the remains of a gargantuan prehistoric beast on the site of a failed dude ranch--a find of enormous scientific importance that is attracting the attention of a wide variety of inividuals, some eminent and seemingly scrupulous...other obviously neither. Moon is also curious about the strange old bones. For things this ancient and rare have been known to inspire malevolent deeds in the past, including avarice, lies...and murder. And all it takes is one mysterious disappearance and one very suspicious death to convince Charlie Moon that his greatest fears have just been realized....
