Desert Wind
β Scribed by Webb, Betty
- Book ID
- 108183279
- Publisher
- Poisoned Pen Press
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 197 KB
- Series
- Lena Jones Mystery 7
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
When P.I. Lena Jonesβs Pima Indian partner Jimmy Sisiwan is arrested in the remote northern Arizona town of Walapai Flats, Lena closes the Desert Investigations office and rushes to his aid. What she finds is a town up in arms over a new uranium mine located only ten miles from the magnificent Grand Canyon. Jimmyβs sister-in-law, founder of Victims of Uranium Mining, has been murdered, but the opposing side is taken hits, too. Ike Donohue, the mineβs public relations flak, is found shot to death, casting suspicion on Jimmy and his entire family. During Lenaβs investigation, she finds not only a community decimated by dangerous mining practices, but a connection to actor John Wayne and the mysterious deaths resulting from the 1953 filming of βThe Conqueror.β Gabe Boone, a wrangler on that doomed film, is still alive, but the only person the aged man will confide in is John Wayneβs ghost. Itβs up to Lena to penetrate Gabeβs defenses and find out the decades-old tragedy no one in Walapai Flats wants to talk about. By delving into the areaβs history, Lena learns that old sins never die; theyβre still taking lives. As with βDesert Wives: Polygamy Can Be Murder,β this seventh book in the Lena Jones series exposes real life crimes, and the reason why high-ranking government officials want those crimes to remain under wraps.
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