Desert Lost

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Description for DESERT LOST by Betty Webb: PI Lena Jones further explores the abuses of polygamy Late one night, while staking out a Scottsdale, Ariz., storage yard in the hope of catching vandals, Lena hears suspicious sounds just outside the yard. She soon discovers the still warm body of a dead woman wearing a long calico dress -- an obvious sister-wife With the nearest polygamist compound a five-hour drive away toward Utah, how did the victim wind up in Scottsdale? Lena, who suffered a troubled childhood as an orphan, gets on a trail that leads her to lost boys, surplus male teens expelled by the older men who run the polygamist cults. This is #8 in A Lena Jones Mystery. Show more