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Coffin Man (2000)

by James D. Doss(Favorite Author)

3.56 of 5 Votes: 4

languge

English

genre

Humor

series

Charlie Moon

review 1: I really enjoy Mr. Doss's folksy writing style, with a lot of humor that's a little unusual for a murder mystery. Elmore Leonard has always been my favorite for dialogs, but I think Doss does just as well. The conversations between Charlie Moon and Scott Parris are especially entertaining to me. The characters in the book are very interesting and the story line has a number of turns.This is James D. Doss's sixteenth book in the Charlie Moon series, and the seventeenth one was written just before his death in 2012. I'm looking forward to reading more of this series that I can find, first preference being ebook format.
review 2: Charlie Moon is a part time tribal investigator. His best friend is the Chief of Police, Scott Parris. When Wanda calls up Daisy, ... moreCharlie's Aunt, and wants to find Charlie for some help she is told by Daisy to just call the police and ask for the Chief and Charlie will not be far behind. Wanda does this, a bit unsure. When Charlie and Scott get to Wanda's house at first all they find is her worrying about her leaky sink that has made a huge water puddle in her kitchen...hardly police business. After Charlie, so nicely, fixes the leak to the best of the old pipes ability the real reason for the call to them is made known...Betty, Wanda's daughter, is missing. She went out for an appointment and never returned home. Because the doctor that she had the appointment with is not open on that day, Scott thinks she just has run off, but Charlie just has a feeling it is much worse than that. Betty is not only very young, only sixteen, but also is very pregnant, eight and a half months. She needs to be found and soon, before anything happens to her and/or her baby. Would she really just run off? Is Charlie's hunch right and is she in danger and not gone by her own choice? How will they find her and will it be in time? Other things quickly go a muck by the cemetery too, where the caretaker is found dead in his home on cemetery grounds and it doesn't look like he died of natural causes either. Who would kill him and what did he see that someone felt he had to be killed. Things will all come together in time, at least that's the hope of all involved. Will they find the murderer? Does he/she have anything to do with Betty going missing? Can they figure it all out before something else happens?This book was an okay read, but I didn't find it to be anything fantastic for my taste. It was written a bit different than I am used to and maybe that is why I found myself not taking to it as well. It kind of jumped around and it wasn't really being told by any of the characters that you could tell from the beginning. Usually a story is well known that it is from "so and so's" point of view. I didn't get this from this book. I guess I found myself a bit confused at first. I did get used to the writing later in the book though, so that helped. Also, I didn't find it to get off and running right away with the mystery. I like to have the mystery at least hinted on in the couple chapters or so to keep me interested and anxious to read on, but that didn't really happen in this book. I found that I liked the characters for the most part and I think I kept reading mainly to see what happened with them. I also thought the characters were pretty well developed and easy to like or dislike depending on the type of character. I think it was a bit drawn out in some spots and could have been a shorter book, however it moved along well enough after it got started with the mysteries. I did like the Native American "feel" of the book though very much and I liked the ways that was incorporated into the writing. I don't think this was an all bad book, just one that I personally didn't find myself loving and I probably won't read any more of the series. It may be for some people, just not for me.3/5 Stars less

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