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J. D. Books #2
Poisoned Pen Press
April 2012
On Sale: April 3, 2012
250 pages
ISBN: 1590585518
EAN: 9781590585511
Kindle: B007QV46U6
Hardcover / e-Book
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Mystery
Third generation Kanab residents Rolly and Abigail Rogers
come from a long line of dedicated pot hunters who scour the
desert southwest in search of valuable antiquities. When the
Utah couple fails to return from a weekend skeleton picnic,
(pot hunting trip)along the desolate Arizona Strip, local
Sheriff Charley Sutter turns to BLM Law Enforcement Ranger
J.D. Books for help. When Books searches the missing couple’s home for clues
about their disappearance, he discovers the house has been
burglarized and a valuable collection of ancient Anasazi and
Fremont Indian antiquities stolen. Soon a search and rescue
operation finds the Rogers’ truck and trailer at an
abandoned campsite near an ancient Anasazi ruin that has
been recently excavated. Footprints and other evidence lead
Books to conclude that the couple may have been overpowered
by a small group of unknown assailants. Sheriff Sutter assigns an attractive young deputy, Beth
Tanner, to investigate the burglary of the Rogers’ home
under the watchful eye of Books. Together they track some of
the stolen property to a pawn shop in St. George, and
ultimately to a young Navajo man with a criminal record.
Keeping this man alive long enough to make him talk,
however, proves difficult. Books and Tanner soon learn of a shadowy group of armed
Indian police who patrol vast swaths of tribal and federal
lands in search of anyone desecrating ancient Native
American burial sites. They also discover several recent
unsolved cases in the Four Corners region where individuals
disappeared into the desert wilderness under suspicious
circumstances, never to be heard from again. Could the
disappearance of the Rogers, and others, be the
responsibility of this group? As Books and Tanner close in on those responsible, Books’
own survival skills will be tested when he is unwittingly
drawn into a remote part of the Grand Staircase Escalante
National Monument. There he is forced into a deadly game of
cat-and-mouse, where the hunter becomes the hunted, and only
one person gets to go home alive.
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