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Desperate Journeys

(2004)
A collection of stories by

 
 
Four trips you won't want to take!

Desert Deceit -- Betty Webb


To escape and unwind, Scottsdale private eye Lena Jones joins a dude ranch cattle drive through Arizona's most rugged and remote area. But the brutal murder of a media magnate turns the 120-mile trip into a trail full of unforeseen danger.

The First Proof -- Terence Faherty

Ex-seminarian Owen Keane accompanies former lover Marilyn Tucci to Maine to bury her estranged husband. But dark mysteries surrounding the dead man's family converge as a murderer strikes at the heart of a tragic past filled with secrets, blackmail and vengeance.

Star Search -- Nancy Baker Jacobs

When Hollywood Star reporter Quinn Collins inherits a house from a writer she never knew, investigating the man and his past prove dangerous to her health as murder and the secret lives of blacklisted writers of the 1950s expose a killer's desperate scheme.

Death on the Southwest Chief -- Jonathan Harrington

Danny O'Flaherty agrees to escort his eccentric Aunt Bertie on a cross-country train trip. But he never bargained for the corpse of her recently deceased husband on the seat next to him and a murdered man in the bedroom of their sleeper car.


Genre: Mystery

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