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![]() | Desert Run (2006) (The fourth book in the Lena Jones Mystery series) A novel by Betty Webb |
Things are never easy for Scottsdale private eye Lena Jones. Her partner in Desert Investigations, Jimmy Siswan, is leaving for an upscale wife and a job at Sun Microsystems. Her old Captain at the Scottsdale PD is off home to Brooklyn. 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 Zee Erik Ernst, a man in his nineties confined to a wheelchair after a boating accident, has just been murdered. Worse, his Ethiopian care giver begs Lena to clear him.
Lena, experienced in probing the past for answers to the central mystery of her own life--who is she?--learns that Ernst and two other POWs hid out in the rugged Superstitions. Nearby, on Christmas night, a whole farm family, the Bollingers, 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?
A complex, stunning case based on real Arizona history, journalist Betty Webb, author of Desert Noir, Desert Wives, and Desert Run, spins an evocative, haunting story.
Genre: Mystery
Lena, experienced in probing the past for answers to the central mystery of her own life--who is she?--learns that Ernst and two other POWs hid out in the rugged Superstitions. Nearby, on Christmas night, a whole farm family, the Bollingers, 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?
A complex, stunning case based on real Arizona history, journalist Betty Webb, author of Desert Noir, Desert Wives, and Desert Run, spins an evocative, haunting story.
Genre: Mystery
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Hardback Editions
March 2006 : Hardback
| Title: Desert Run (Lena Jones Mysteries) Author(s): Betty Webb ISBN: 1-59058-234-9 / 9781590582343 (USA edition) Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
Paperback Editions
February 2008 : Paperback
| Title: Desert Run (Lena Jones Mysteries (Paperback)) Author(s): Betty Webb ISBN: 1-59058-493-7 / 9781590584934 (USA edition) Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
March 2006 : Paperback
| Title: Desert Run (Lena Jones Mysteries) Author(s): Betty Webb ISBN: 1-59058-264-0 / 9781590582640 (USA edition) Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
Audio Editions
July 2012 : MP3 CD
| Title: Desert Run: A Lena Jones Mystery Author(s): Betty Webb ISBN: 1-4551-6729-0 / 978-1-4551-6729-6 Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
July 2012 : Audio CD
| Title: Desert Run: A Lena Jones Mystery Author(s): Betty Webb ISBN: 1-4551-6728-2 / 978-1-4551-6728-9 Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
July 2012 : Audio CD
| Title: Desert Run: A Lena Jones Mystery Author(s): Betty Webb ISBN: 1-4551-6727-4 / 978-1-4551-6727-2 Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
Other Editions
May 2011 : Kindle edition
| Title: Desert Run: A Lena Jones Mystery (Lena Jones Series) Author(s): Betty Webb Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
January 2006 : Unknown
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