Desert Vengeance
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"Webb offers fans the profound pleasure of watching Lena mature as she comes one step closer to understanding and accepting her difficult past, while providing new readers with an introduction to this strong and genuinely likable character." —Publishers Weekly
When the man who raped Scottsdale PI Lena Jones when she was a nine-year-old foster child is released from prison, Lena is waiting for him in the parking lot—with a big knife. "Papa" Brian Wycoff survives their meeting, but the next day, his wife, who knew about his crimes but did nothing to stop him—in fact enabled him—is found dead in their Apache Junction home, shot through both eyes. Terrified he will be next, Wycoff, violating his parole, flees north to the small town of Black Canyon City, taking shelter in an RV on his brother-in-law's small ranch. A couple of days later, he is found tortured to death, eight horizontal marks burned into his flesh. One for each of his victims?
Suspicion first falls upon Lena, who has trailed Wycoff to Black Canyon City to make sure he doesn't come near any other children. When the local authorities arrive to question her, she admits to having been tempted to kill her former foster father, but someone beat her to the punch. Suspicion then falls on Wycoff's other victims, the now-grown men and women he abused when they were still in his care, and on the mothers of the children who went missing before his arrest.
When Lena takes up the case, more to protect one of the mothers who has been arrested than to find the real killer, her conscience is torn. Does a serial child rapist, a pedophile also implicated in the disappearance of several children, really deserve justice? That choice might not be left up to Lena when members of a local group, Parents of Missing Children, start working to prevent her investigation from succeeding. How far will they go to make sure she fails?
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Betty Webb. (2017). Desert Vengeance. Sourcebooks.
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As a journalist, Betty Webb interviewed U.S. presidents, astronauts, and Nobel Prize winners, as well as the homeless, dying, and polygamy runaways. The dark Lena Jones mysteries are based on stories she covered as a reporter. Betty's humorous Gunn Zoo series debuted with the critically acclaimed The Anteater of Death, followed by The Koala of Death. A book reviewer at Mystery Scene Magazine, Betty is a member of National Federation of Press Women, Mystery Writers of America, and the National Organization of Zoo Keepers.
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"Webb offers fans the profound pleasure of watching Lena mature as she comes one step closer to understanding and accepting her difficult past, while providing new readers with an introduction to this strong and genuinely likable character." —Publishers Weekly
When the man who raped Scottsdale PI Lena Jones when she was a nine-year-old foster child is released from prison, Lena is waiting for him in the parking lot—with a big knife. "Papa" Brian Wycoff survives their meeting, but the next day, his wife, who knew about his crimes but did nothing to stop him—in fact enabled him—is found dead in their Apache Junction home, shot through both eyes. Terrified he will be next, Wycoff, violating his parole, flees north to the small town of Black Canyon City, taking shelter in an RV on his brother-in-law's small ranch. A couple of days later, he is found tortured to death, eight horizontal marks burned into his flesh. One for each of his victims?
Suspicion first falls upon Lena, who has trailed Wycoff to Black Canyon City to make sure he doesn't come near any other children. When the local authorities arrive to question her, she admits to having been tempted to kill her former foster father, but someone beat her to the punch. Suspicion then falls on Wycoff's other victims, the now-grown men and women he abused when they were still in his care, and on the mothers of the children who went missing before his arrest.
When Lena takes up the case, more to protect one of the mothers who has been arrested than to find the real killer, her conscience is torn. Does a serial child rapist, a pedophile also implicated in the disappearance of several children, really deserve justice? That choice might not be left up to Lena when members of a local group, Parents of Missing Children, start working to prevent her investigation from succeeding. How far will they go to make sure she fails?
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At the outset of Webb’s fine ninth Lena Jones mystery (after 2014’s Desert Rage), the Scottsdale, Ariz., PI and former policewoman is waiting for Brian Wycoff on his release from prison. Wycoff, who raped Lena when she was a nine-year-old in foster care, has served 25 years for his crimes against children. Lena intends to stalk him and inform his new neighbors of his past, but she alters her plans after Wycoff’s wife is shot dead and he flees to the farm owned by his sister and her family. When Wycoff is subsequently maimed and murdered, Lena agrees to investigate on behalf of the woman arrested for the crime. Her inquiries and the way her moral decisions affect her make for compelling reading. Webb offers fans the profound pleasure of watching Lena mature as she comes one step closer to understanding and accepting her difficult past, while providing new readers with an introduction to this strong and genuinely likable character.
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An Arizona private detective who survived a childhood from hell becomes a suspect in the death of her abusers.Lena Jones spent years in the foster-care system, and the worst were the years she spent in the care of the Wycoffs. "Papa Brian" raped her repeatedly, and Norma enabled him by denying it. Wycoff was finally arrested when Lena stabbed him and a long list of children testified to his abuse. Now that he's out of prison after almost 30 years, Lena's doing all she can to make her former foster parents' lives miserable. When Norma is shot in both eyes and dies, Lena's an obvious suspect. Yet there are so many others with reasons to hate the Wycoffs that the police, who have no love for child molesters, give her a pass on the murder. Jimmy, Lena's partner at Desert Investigations, does his best to get her to drop the case. But a GPS tracker she's planted on Wycoff's car allows her to follow him to Black Canyon City, where his sister, Grace, another enabler, fights her husband to let him stay in a trailer on their property even though she has an 8-year-old granddaughter. Lena checks into Debbie's Desert Oasis, whose owner and several current residents all have missing children who may have been victims of Wycoff. There's another murder, and as she tracks down clues, Lena fights flashbacks from the days when she was still living with her parents, hoping the unwanted return of the past may help her decide what to do if she finds the killer. Webb, no stranger to hot-button issues (Desert Wind, 2012, etc.), takes on child molestation in a page-turner that presents both her flawed heroine and the reader with plenty of challenges to their moral codes.COPYRIGHT(2016) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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