A former student turns up in David Mapstone's office with the perfect case for this history professor turned deputy: a letter left by her deceased father confessing to a forty-year-old murder and providing directions to the body. But things are never what they seem in Phoenix, a city of newcomers seeking fresh starts from sometimes dark pasts. There's a corpse in the desert, right where the letter said it would be found, but it's only weeks old. The burial site turns out to have bodyguards and when the 'former student' can't be found, Mapstone begins to wonder what her agenda is. As more fresh bodies turn up, the clues keep pointing back to the same remote piece of desert and a seemingly unconnected real estate development called Arizona Dreams...
- ISBN10 0709082509
- ISBN13 9780709082507
- Publish Date 31 January 2007
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 20 July 2009
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher The Crowood Press Ltd
- Imprint Robert Hale Ltd
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 224
- Language English