Wicked Wind — Helen Cothran

Wise-cracking writer Sam Larkin moves back home to Desert Rock after her mother's death -- and immediately regrets it. She longs to return to the big city, far away from the brutal heat, her bickering siblings, and her mother's ghost. Instead, when the owner of the controversial wind farm she is researching turns up dead, Sam finds herself at the frontline of a war between environmentalists, developers, and the victim's dysfunctional family. Never one to let a wrong go un-righted, Sam pursues the killer and comes face to face with pure evil . . . and risks becoming the next victim.