Full Moon-Bloody Moon [Hardcover]

Lee Driver (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1, 2000

A series of gruesome murders leads an Indianapolis cop and a university professor to the doorstep of Cedar Point P.I. Chase Dagger. They have a theory behind the killings. The professor believes the killings only occur just prior to and during a full moon on a Friday the 13th. He believes the evil is passed on from generation to generation. Dagger feels the professor knows far too much about the suspect and the murders. Chase Dagger is back after his debut in The Good Die Twice. Mystery author Lee Driver skillfully blends mystery with an element of horror as she touches on a little known phenomena -- on October 13, 2000 there will be a full moon and it's a Friday the 13th, the thirteenth such occurrence since 1800. You will never look at another full moon on a Friday the 13th the same way.

Editorial Reviews

From Booklist

Like its predecessor in the series, The Good Die Twice [BKL O 15 99], this second Chase Dagger novel cleverly combines mystery and fantasy. Dagger, a Cedar Point, Indiana, private investigator, has a special sidekick: Sara Morningsky, an 18-year-old girl with the ability to change into a variety of animals. Shape-shifters are the stuff of high fantasy, but somehow Driver, who (as S. D. Tooley) also writes the Sam Casey mysteries, keeps things firmly in the real world. She has crafted a smart story--a serial killer who's been operating for years may be a shape-shifter himself--and, despite its unusual trappings, it's as satisfying and realistic as any more-traditional mystery. Chase and Sara make a good team (there's just a hint of a will-they/won't-they romantic subplot), and Driver keeps us wondering if the killer really is a shape-shifter. The appeal of cross-genre novels is sometimes difficult to target, but this one should have no trouble attracting readers from either the mystery or the fantasy side of the fence. David Pitt
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The appeal of cross-genre novels is sometimes difficult to target, but this one should have no trouble attracting readers from either the mystery or the fantasy side of the fence.
--Booklist

"The chance to catch a hell of a mystery and the growing, unfolding enigma of such characters as these is exceedingly rare." -- Lisa DuMond, scifi.com

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 280 pages
• Publisher: Full Moon Publishing (October 1, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0966602145
• ISBN-13: 978-0966602142
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,954,362 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Whenever my husband is asked to describe me in one word, he usually says strange. When other kids were watching cartoons, I was watching Shock Theatre. While other young women subscribed to Cosmopolitan, I subscribed to Dr. J. Allen Hynek's UFO Reporter. X-Files, Dark Angel, Fringe, Moonlight, all the movies about things that go bump in the night are at the top of my list. So naturally a traditional mystery isn't my cup of poison. I blend mystery with fantasy, sometimes horror, and sometimes sci-fi. Chase Dagger isn't your ordinary detective. He has a shapeshifter for a partner.

My titles have been published in hard cover, paperback, large print, audio book, and most eBook formats, including for the Kindle. I also write the Sam Casey series (think Medium with a Native American twist) under my own name, S.D. Tooley

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Even better than its predecessor, May 12, 2004

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Craig Clarke "Living After Midnight: Hard and... (New England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Full Moon-Bloody Moon (Hardcover)

Author Lee Driver returns with the second in her series starring mysterious private investigstor Chase Dagger and his Native American shapeshifter associate Sara Morningsky and scarlet macaw Einstein--Full Moon Bloody Moon. This entry finds them with a more gruesome case as the bodies keep piling up, but no logical suspect can be found.

Lisa was a really good cop, a quick and accurate shooter. So, it was a real surprise when she was found dead along her regular jogging path with her gun still holstered and with the safety still on. The other surprise was that she was found twenty feet up, stuck in the V of a tree branch. Of great import to this case is the rarity of the combined occurrence of a full moon on a Friday the 13th. The story takes place during the five days leading up to Friday, October 13, 2000, when it is believed that the killer will attain his greatest level of power during the upcoming full moon.

Meanwhile, Chase and Skizzy are also working on a case involving weapons thefts from a local police station. Skizzy's invention of the "Mick," a mechanical spider-shaped surveillance camera, provides much of the intrigue in this subplot, which otherwise feels much like another day on the job.

Things really take a turn in Full Moon Bloody Moon when it is discovered that the killer can communicate with Sara through the telepathy that, until then, the reader had thought that only she and Chase could share. Is the killer a shapeshifter, too? Chase's ability to overhear their conversations causes his pragmatic worldview to begin to crumble. Able to accept Sara as a shapeshifter, because that was how he discovered her, the idea that there are more is almost too much for him. And the closer he comes to a solution, the more it seems that the killer is something that Chase is not entirely prepared to deal with.

The sexual tension between Sara and Chase continues building, with their friends invariably making comments to Chase about questionable situations. These are still some of the most intriguing characters in fiction, and any male reader is undoubtedly going to want to be Chase and want to be with Sara. Their relationship is an engaging combination of sibling and romance that succeeds because of not engendering any untoward feelings whatsoever. I'm becoming as comfortable with these people in just two books as I did Ed McBain's 87th Precinct crowd. I can only hope that Lee Driver exhibits McBain's longevity. Add to that her skill at writing epilogues that make me want to begin the next book immediately (in this case, The Unseen), and what we have is a terrific fantasy mystery series that deserves bestseller status.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good horror, December 25, 2000

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Konrad Kern (OFallon, MO United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Full Moon-Bloody Moon (Hardcover)

See storyline above.

I really enjoyed this book involving Chase Dagger and Sara the shape-shifter. I must also mention Einstein the macaw, quite a bird in itself. There is mystery and there is horror and there is action, blended all together in this above normal tale of superstition. You really get to like most of the characters and their unique personalities. Lee Driver (aka Sandra Tooley) has written a very entertaining horror novel that will keep you in your seat till the sun comes up. I look forward to the next Dagger Mystery and hope that Sara tags along.

Highly recommended for horror and mystery buffs.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A series to watch, July 3, 2001

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Jerry (New York) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Full Moon-Bloody Moon (Hardcover)

FULL MOON-BLOODY MOON is the second in the Chase Dagger series. This one combines mystery and horror in a story about a little known phenomena -- the combination of a full moon and a Friday the 13th. Dagger is confronted by an Indianapolis cop and a university professor who have a theory behind a series of murders. They believe a man has inherited an evil passed on through generations that is at its worst during a full moon on a Friday the 13th. This book pits an evil shapeshifter against Sara, Dagger's shapeshifting partner. As in THE GOOD DIE TWICE, Sara's shapeshifting is the catalyst in this series. And the existence of this evil shapeshifter becomes real when it starts communicating telepathically with Sara. This is a tightly written thriller that will have you looking at a full moon quite differently. To show you how rare the combination is, October 13, 2000, was only the thirteenth time since 1800 that it has occurred.