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Keith RossonThriller · Fiction
Coffin Moon
Synopsis
December 1975, outside Portland, Oregon. Duane Minor — a newly sober bartender still carrying the wreckage of Vietnam — is trying to build a quiet life with his wife, Heidi, and her orphaned thirteen-year-old niece, Julia. Then Duane throws a heroin-dealing biker out of the bar, and the gang's leader, John Varley, murders Heidi and her parents in reprisal.
Duane and Julia take to the road after him, only to learn that Varley is a hundred-year-old vampire and that a hidden subculture of the undead haunts the frozen highways of the Northwest. A blood-soaked revenge western in the mold of True Grit.
How it reads
Prose complexity 7/10
Content warnings (2)
ViolenceSubstance Abuse
Genres
Characters
Duane MinorProtagonist
A newly sober, war-haunted bartender who takes to the road for revenge.
John Varley (Coffin Moon)Antagonist
The heroin-dealing biker-gang leader who murders Duane's family, and a hundred-year-old vampire.
HeidiSupporting
Duane's wife, murdered early on by the biker gang's leader.
Julia (Coffin Moon)Supporting
Heidi's orphaned thirteen-year-old niece, who joins Duane on the hunt for the killer.
