Desert Run

Betty, Webb

ISBN 10: 1590582349 / ISBN 13: 9781590582343

Published by Poisoned Pen Press, 2006

About this Item

Signed by Author Unused with no marks or inscriptions other than the authros signature on the title page. Copyright page states "First Edition 2006" and has a full number line. Dust jacekt is in a mylar cover.

Seller Inventory # 003829

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Desert Run
• Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1590582349
• ISBN 13: 9781590582343
• Binding: Hard Cover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Brand New
• Dust Jacket Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 21 ounces
• Signed: Signed by Author

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Synopsis

Things are never easy for Scottsdale private eye Lena Jones. Her partner in Desert Investigations is leaving for a wife and a job at Southwest MicroSystems. Her old captain at the Scottsdale PD is moving home to Brooklyn. Now she's doing security for Warren Quinn, director of a documentary being shot at Papago Park about the German POW camp and the "great escape" of Christmas Eve, 1944, when some prisoners tunneled out and fled. And one surviving escapee, Kapitan Zur See Erik Erns - a man in his nineties confined to a wheelchair after a boating accident - has just been murdered. Worse, his Ethiopian caregiver begs Lena to clear him as a suspect.

Lena, experienced in probing the past for answers to the central mystery of her own life, learns that Ernst and two other POWs hid out in the rugged Superstition Mountains. Nearby, on Christmas Night, the Bollinger family was slaughtered. A jury didn't convict the only survivor, the teenage son. What might Chess Bollinger know about Ernst - and vice versa? And how much can Lena trust Quinn, either as a client, a witness, or a lover?

About the Author

Before writing mysteries full time, Betty Webb worked as a journalist, interviewing everyone from U.S. presidents and Nobel Prize winners, to the homeless and polygamy runaways. Most of her books are based on the stories she covered as a reporter. Today she's a volunteer at the Phoenix Zoo, and is also a member of the National Federation of Press Women, Mystery Writers of America, the Society of Southwestern Authors, and Women Writing the West.