Lena Jones Mysteries

9 books in series
4 out of 5 stars 79 ratings

Desert Run Publisher's summary

Things are never easy for Scottsdale private eye Lena Jones. Her partner in Desert Investigations, Jimmy Sisiwan, is leaving for a moneyed wife and a job at Southwest Microsystems, and her old captain at the Scottsdale Police Department is off to his home in Brooklyn. Meanwhile, she’s doing security for Warren Quinn, director of a documentary film about the American World War II camp for German POWs at Arizona’s Papago Park, from which some prisoners once escaped.

One surviving escapee, Käpitan zur See Erik Ernst, a man now in his nineties and confined to a wheelchair after a boating accident, has just been murdered. What’s more, the man’s Ethiopian caregiver begs Lena to clear him as a suspect in the murder.

Lena, experienced in probing the past for answers to the central mystery of her own life - who is she? - learns that after their daring Christmas Eve escape Ernst and two other POWs had hid out in Arizona’s rugged Superstition Mountains. Nearby on Christmas night, a farm family, the Bollingers, had been slaughtered. A jury didn’t convict the only survivor, the teenage son, despite some suggestive evidence. What might Chess Bollinger know about Ernst - and vice versa? And how much can Lena trust filmmaker Warren Quinn, either as a client, a witness, or a lover?

In this complex, stunning case based on real Arizona history, Betty Webb spins another evocative, haunting story in her Lena Jones mystery series.

Betty Webb worked as a journalist and bases her mysteries on stories she covered as a reporter. She currently teaches creative writing at Phoenix College.

©2006 Betty Webb (P)2012 Blackstone Audio, Inc.
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  • Book 1

    Desert Noir Audiobook By Betty Webb cover art
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    Desert Wives Audiobook By Betty Webb cover art
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  • Book 4

    • A Lena Jones Mystery, Book 4
    • By: Betty Webb
    • Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin
    • Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 07-09-12
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 15 ratings

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  • Book 5

    • A Lena Jones Mystery, Book 7
    • By: Betty Webb
    • Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin
    • Length: 7 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 03-06-08
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings

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