Piranha

Sleepy New Haven California is a small town with a big problem. A sixty foot slithering horror has arrived and shattered the towns tranquillity on its path of death and destruction... Growing violent and more savage with each attack the ...

Python features scary, suspenseful, rough, macabre and serious

The novelization also fills in some trivia about Maggie. When her boyfriend walked out on her, she hired a private detective to find him. She got so hooked on the process she decided to become one herself. By the time she caught up with her ex, she wasn't interested anymore in why he left.