Charlie Moon hits the trail in search of a missing girl in Doss's latest folksy mystery

When Colorado rancher and part-time tribal investigator Charlie Moon gets a call from Wanda Naranjo, she's panicked. Not only is her sink leaking, but her daughter Betty has gone missing. For how long? A few hours. How old? Sixteen, but 8 1/2 months pregnant. Who's the father? Anybody's guess.

And that's not all. Betty claimed to be going to see a school counselor on what turned out to be his day off. So was she running away, or was she taken, or is she even missing at all? It's enough to make Moon's blood run cold because the one thing he's convinced of is that if she's alive she isn't holding on by much.

James D. Doss's Coffin Man is a wonderfully wild romp through the Wild West that is chockfull of tall tales, wide-open spaces, and Doss's signature homespun wit.

Genre: Mystery