AUTHOR EVENT - BETTY WEBB: DESERT LOST

BETTY WEBB: DESERT LOST      7PM

Former reporter Betty Webb discusses the real-life events that led to Desert Lost, the latest novel in her Lena Jones mystery series. If one man can have ten wives, nine men will have none -- and some polygamists know how to rid themselves of those “surplus” men, even when the “men” are only 14 years old. They become Arizona’s Lost Boys. Webb’s Lena Jones series has been hailed as mysteries with a social conscience, in such publications as the New York Times, Chicago Tribune, and Publishers Weekly. Tonight Webb explains how the human rights violations in certain polygamist communities have been -- and still are -- hidden under the guise of religious freedom.

Desert Lost (Hardcover)

By Betty Webb

$24.95

ISBN-13: 9781590586815
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Poisoned Pen Press, 12/01/2009

P.I. Lena Jones discovers the body of a woman connected to Second Zion, a polygamy cult. Lena joins forces with a former polygamist sister wife to find the victim's killer and soon discovers a shocking secret: in a society where one man can have ten wives, nine men will have none.

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