Moondog

Julian, California, is inhabited by a colorful cast of characters, from seemingly average middle-class folk to a choice selection of burnouts, dropouts, and social misfits. But no one in the small, mountainous town is prepared for the events that follow a lunar eclipse on summer.

When a young woman disappears during an eclipse party, the townspeople nervously assume a marauding mountian lion has killed her. When her body is found, it bears the marks of an animal attack. But at the next full Moon, when a schoolteacher dies the same way, fear becomes hysteria – is a visious serial killer at work?

Local resident and reclusive writer Cyrus "Moondog" Nygerski is struck with a deeper fearand is compelled to discover how the women really died. With Joe Action, a companion new to the area, he finds details of the killings that do not fit the pattern – and some that fit a more ominous one. And what he comes up with, laid out quite logically and frighteningly, is that there is a werewolf living among the residents of Julian.

Impossible? There are no such things? Let Henry Garfield chillingly convince you in this eminently believable and beautifully written mystery.