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Desert Run

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Serier: Lena Jones Mystery (4)

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Fiction. Mystery. HTML: Things are never easy for Scottsdale private eye Lena Jones. Her partner in Desert Investigations is leaving for a wife and a job at Southwest MicroSystems. Her old captain at the Scottsdale PD is moving home to Brooklyn. Now 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 See Erik Erns - a man in his nineties confined to a wheelchair after a boating accident - has just been murdered. Worse, his Ethiopian caregiver begs Lena to clear him as a suspect. Lena, experienced in probing the past for answers to the central mystery of her own life, learns that Ernst and two other POWs hid out in the rugged Superstition Mountains. Nearby, on Christmas Night, the Bollinger family 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? .… (mer)

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In this Lena Jones PI series, Lena is involved in trying to figure out who killed a despised, brutal German man who was part of a documentary on a German POW camp in Arizona where a number of the POWs escaped in 1944. While they were at large, a family in the area was murdered except for the son who wasn't home at the time. Although suspected, the Germans and the son were found to be innocent. Back in the present day, Lena has her hands full trying to uncover what really happened in 1944 and how it reveals who the killer is today.

Although the story was uneven, a bit complicated, and there was too much explaining at the end, I still enjoy following Lena Jones on her investigations. She's feisty and smart but has a lot of difficulty when it comes to getting close to someone. It was also interesting that the story was based on a real POW camp in Arizona where some prisoners had escaped but didn't harm anyone. (

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gaylebutz | Aug 10, 2015 |

I guess I just really like books where the mystery has roots in the past; this one has its genesis in World War II and the POW camps in the US. So far it's my favorite of Betty Webb's books, but I still need to read [b:Desert Cut|2345916|Desert Cut A Lena Jones Mystery (Lena Jones)|Betty Webb|http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51S3MC8VxML._SL75_.jpg|2352626]. (

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auntieknickers | Apr 3, 2013 |

The fourth in Betty Webb's Lena Jones series is loosely based on events near WW II-era German POW Camp Papago close to Phoenix. Webb is evolving more complexity into Lena's character, and I like that she does the unexpected. This series is beginning to evoke similar elements of Cara Black's Aimee Luduc series, set in Paris. (

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Fiction. Mystery. HTML:

Things are never easy for Scottsdale private eye Lena Jones. Her partner in Desert Investigations is leaving for a wife and a job at Southwest MicroSystems. Her old captain at the Scottsdale PD is moving home to Brooklyn. Now 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 See Erik Erns - a man in his nineties confined to a wheelchair after a boating accident - has just been murdered. Worse, his Ethiopian caregiver begs Lena to clear him as a suspect.

Lena, experienced in probing the past for answers to the central mystery of her own life, learns that Ernst and two other POWs hid out in the rugged Superstition Mountains. Nearby, on Christmas Night, the Bollinger family 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?

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