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Finding Moon | Characters

Finding Moon's protagonist, Malcolm "Moon" Mathias, is, like Jim Chee, Hillerman's Navajo cop, a gloomy, conflicted character. Now the managing editor of a third-rate newspaper, the Morning Press- Register of Durance, Colorado, Moon realizes that his life is a mess. He rents a room in his house to the twenty-something, voluptuous Debbie, who sometimes sleeps with him when she's not out with other men. In the office, he has to oversee Rooney, a reporter with a propensity for getting drunk when Moon needs him the most. His boss, Shakeshaft, views the paper only as a source of...

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