Desert Cut

Description

While scouting locations for a film documentary on Arizona's Apache Wars, private investigator Lena Jones and Oscar-winning director Warren Quinn discover the mutilated body of a young girl. The gruesome manner of the child's death evokes memories of Lena's own rough childhood. Defying the local law, Lena investigates the child's death and uncov

Before writing mysteries full time, Betty Webb worked as a journalist, interviewing everyone from U.S. presidents and Nobel Prize winners, to the homeless and polygamy runaways. Most of her books are based on the stories she covered as a reporter. Today she's a volunteer at the Phoenix Zoo, and is also a member of the National Federation of Press Women, Mystery Writers of America, the Society of Southwestern Authors, and Women Writing the West.

Compelling. (starred review)-- "Booklist" Mysteries don't get more hard-hitting than this....Readers will be talking about Desert Cut for a long time to come.-- "David Morrell, New York Times best-selling author of The Brotherhood of the Rose and Creepers" Webb's dark tale of a clash of cultures is emotionally draining and intellectually challenging.-- "Kirkus Reviews"