Desert Rage: A Lena Jones Mystery
Betty Webb
Poisoned Pen, Oct 7 2014, $24.95
ISBN 9781464203107
In Scottsdale, Arizona, fourteen year old Ali Cameron and her
boyfriend Kyle Gibbs confess to the cops that they committed the violent murders
of her parents and her tweener brother with a baseball bat. Scottsdale PD closes the bludgeoning violent
case.
However, Congresswoman Juliana Thorsson has a personal interest in
the Cameron mass murders. She hires Desert
Investigations detectives Lena Jones and Jimmy Sisiwan to learn what led to the
teen rage as she admits she is Ali’s biological mother having donated an egg. The Representative also makes clear she prefers
the PIs find evidence to exonerate her “offspring” even at the cost of burying
Gibbs. As Lena investigates she finds
other people with stronger motives to kill the Dr. and his wife though the son
probably was in the wrong place at the wrong time; and she also feels a foster
care kinship to Kyle who the sleuth prefers to exonerate.
The eighth Lena Jones Desert mystery (see Desert Wives and Desert Wind) is a tremendous whodunit
that adds freshness by providing the viewpoints of egotistical Ali and troubled
Kyle; as well as the star who revises her definition of what a mother is from
what a MOTHER is. Action-packed but
character-driven Desert Rage is a fabulous investigative tale.
Harriet Klausner
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