This book, unusually for a dark fantasy tale, is set in the USA during World War II.

When Captain Maxwell Pierce takes up his new post of Commanding Officer of Lakeside Post Assembly Centre he hopes it will allow him to make a new start, leaving behind the tragedy that has recently affected his life.

The role of the assembly centre is to transfer all persons of Japanese or partial Japanese origin to one of the nearby Internment camps. Although the transfer centres are run by the military the internment camps are civilian controlled.

But shortly after Pierce's arrival it becomes clear that there is something sinister affecting the closest camp – Tulenar, run by Doris Tebbe. A number of the residents have disappeared. Initially the authorities believe that the missing people have just escaped the camp but when one of the missing persons turns up dead, their throat ripped out, they start to believe that someone is targeting any camp residents that are seen to be collaborating with the authorities.

When a Navajo, David Alma Curar arrives at the camp claiming that the killings are the result of a werewolf stalking the camp Doris Tebbe understandably is rather sceptical. However, as the abductions increase and more bodies are found with horrific injuries both Tebbe and Pierce start to listen more closely to what Alma Curar has been saying.

Will Doris, Maxwell and David manage to discover the truth about the killings before anyone else dies? And will they discover sufficient evidence to prove the werewolf theory and to destroy it before it can kill again?

Full Wolf Moon, as you may have gathered from the title, is a werewolf story. When I first started to read it I was concerned that it was following a rather obvious storyline. The hints as to the true identity of the monster seemed to be a little too obvious and I hoped that the author wouldn't resort to one of the tried and tested story arcs used by many other writers. Needless to say I was glad when K.L. Nappier included a few twists and turns that added extra dimensions to the story.

K.L. Nappier has a writing style that is extremely easy to read. The story is told from the point of view of a number of the characters including some of the victims of the werewolf which does ensure some rather descriptive passages of the moment of death!

Setting the story in an Internment Camp in California is also an interesting angle. The idea of any one of a Japanese origin being confined within what is effectively a concentration camp allows the author to explore the relationships that develop between the internees and the camp officials. There is also an interesting interplay between the military, who run the transfer station, and the civilians who run the camp.

All in all I thoroughly enjoyed Full Wolf Moon and I think it is an interesting addition to the genre.

Synopsis
Eastern California, 1942: Alone, Tsuko Ataki strolls the boundaries of Tulenar Internment Camp. Too late, he sees the silver wolven creature waiting in the full moon's light. The creature leaps. His head trapped in the werewolf's jaws, Tsuko Ataki can't even cry out as he's dragged through the barbed wire...

Be prepared for a wild werewolf adventure with bizarre twists never read before. In the aftermath of Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, Captain Maxwell Pierce commands Lakeside Assembly Center, where Japanese-Americans are processed for internment camp. Bitten during another tour of duty, Max believes the beast was by nothing more supernatural than a rabid timber wolf.

The head of Tulenar Internment Camp is political hard-baller Doris Tebbe. Like Max, she doesn't believe in werewolves. Only David Alma Curar, a Navajo healer who has tracked Max's bloody trail, believes in the evil that stalks the camp. But this werewolf hunter doesn't want to kill Max. He has his own reason for keeping him alive.