Desert Run - Lena Jones, Bk 4 Author:Betty Webb No One Escapes the Past — With her business struggling and her trusted partner leaving, the only stable thing in private investigator Lena Jones's life is her current job: handling security for a documentary company. It's easy money... until the production's central witness, Nazi ex-POW Erik Ernst, is beaten ... more »to death. One explosive clue after another leads Lena back to Ernst's long-ago escape from an Arizona POW cap -- and a trail of suspects who could have delivered brutal final justice.
But then Lena's longtime reporter friend is murdered. Suddenly, Lena is plunged into another mystery, the horrifying decades-old massacre of a local family. Could Ernst have been responsible--or is the truth even more horrifying? Secrets rear up like lethal copperheads as Lena tries to separate grim truth from a maze of agendas and sinister lies. And a killer is only a breath away from rewriting the past... and erasing Lena's future.« less