by Douglas D. Hawk
Critic's Choice, 1987
A werewolf story in a Jaws plot. A mysterious creature stalks a vacation town. Business leaders don't want to shut down the beaches, er, lake. A depressed, one-armed cop tries to fight the creature between drinking spells.
The pacing is dictated by the phases of the moon, which gives us long pauses between action. And it's not a werewolf, it's an Egyptian cat goddess. The creature isn't described at all for the first few scenes, and my mind filled in a giant wolf. Later, it still isn't described, other than calling it catlike. I still had a picture of a wolf for a while, until it was replaced by the image of a twelve foot long house cat biting off heads and being shot at by M-16s.
Decently written, and I'm looking forward to reading more Hawk.
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