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Also by Betty Webb:

The Clock Struck Murder, April 2024
Trade Paperback / e-Book
Lost in Paris, April 2023
Paperback / e-Book / audiobook
The Panda of Death, March 2020
Paperback / e-Book
The Puffin of Death, November 2015
Paperback
Desert Rage, October 2014
Hardcover / e-Book
The Llama Of Death, January 2013
Paperback / e-Book

DESERT RAGE
By: Betty Webb

Poisoned Pen Press
October 2014
On Sale: October 7, 2014
Featuring: Juliana Thorsson; Lena Jones; Alison
400 pages
ISBN: 1464203105
EAN: 9781464203107
Kindle: B00NVC0AGS
Hardcover / e-Book
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Mystery Private Eye

Ferociously ambitious U.S. Senatorial candidate Juliana Thorsson has been keeping a secret. The horrific slaughter of a prominent doctor, his wife, and their ten-year-old son inside their Scottsdale home brings Thorsson to Private Investigator Lena Jones. The slain family’s 14-year-old, Alison, and her boyfriend, Kyle, have confessed to the murders.

Thorsson wants to hire Lena to discover if Alison is telling the truth, but before accepting the job, Lena demands to know why a rising political star wants to involve herself with the fate of a girl she’s never met. Desperate for Lena’s help, Thorsson reveals her explosive secret—that Ali son is the candidate’s biological daughter, a fact she’s kept hidden for years.

But that’s not all. Thorsson then confides something even more unusual than a mere hidden pregnancy, something that could ruin her political plans forever. Suspecting that Alison’s parents had secrets of their own that could have led to the murders, Lena finally accepts Thorsson’s assignment.

But interviewing those who knew the family well soon puts Lena—now a strong defender of the two teens—in danger of her life. Fast-paced, probing, and ¬ filled with the trademark twists of the Lena Jones series, Desert Rage once again shows that Betty Webb is unsparing of her characters yet writes their stories with wit and compassion.