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  • Bibliography:
    19 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    June 2001
  • Latest Book:
    April 2024
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Full Series List in Order

A Gunn Zoo Mystery

1 - Anteater of Death (Dec-2008)
2 - The Koala of Death (Aug-2010)
3 - Llama of Death (Jan-2013)
4 - The Puffin of Death (Nov-2015)
5 - The Otter of Death (May-2018)
6 - The Panda of Death (Mar-2020)

A Lena Jones Mystery

1 - Desert Noir (Jun-2001)
2 - Desert Wives (Jan-2003)
3 - Desperate Journeys: Desert Deceit (May-2004)
4 - Desert Shadows (Jun-2004)
5 - Desert Run (Mar-2006)
7 - Desert Cut (Feb-2008)
8 - Desert Lost (Dec-2009)
9 - Desert Wind (Feb-2012)
10 - Desert Rage (Oct-2014)
11 - Desert Vengeance (Feb-2017)
12 - Desert Redemption (Sep-2020)

Lost in Paris

1 - Lost in Paris (Apr-2023)
2 - The Clock Struck Murder (Apr-2024)

Book List in Order: 19 titles



  • Death As A Way Of Life When Clarice Kobe is found savagely beaten to death in her Scottsdale, Arizona, art gallery, her abusive ex-husband, Jay, is the prime suspect. But as much as everybody hated the guy, private investigator Lena Jones thinks t...



  • 'TIL DEATH DO US PART Driven by moral outrage and deep personal demons, Arizona private investigator Lena Jones enters the brutal world of polygamy when she is hired by a frantic mother desperate to rescue her thirteen-year-old daughter from a pol...



  • 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....



  • DEAD, WHITE AND BLUE Patriot's Blood Press publisher Gloriana Alden-Taylor keels over and dies at a Scottsdale book convention after someone sprinkled her salad with hemlock. Private investigator Lena Jones takes a personal interest in the case when...



  • The scrappy workaholic PI is supervising security for filmmaker Warren Quinn, who's shooting a documentary about the escape of German POWs from a prison camp in Scottsdale, Ariz., in 1944. When someone murders the leader of the escapees, arrogant, di...



  • While scouting for locations near the popular tourist destination of Los Perdidos, Ariz., Scottsdale private eye Lena Jones and her lover, Oscar-winning director Warren Quinn, uncover a shallow grave. The body brings back nightmares of Lena's own tro...



  • Zookeeper Theodora Teddy Bentley. Teddy is dismayed to learn that a pregnant anteater in her care, Lucy, appears to have mauled to death a prominent patron of California's Gunn Landing Zoo, Grayson Harrill. When it turns out that someone shot Harrill...



  • PI Lena Jones further explores the abuses of polygamy Late one night, while staking out a Scottsdale, Ariz., storage yard in the hope of catching vandals, Lena hears suspicious sounds just outside the yard. She soon discovers the still warm body of a...



  • IT'S A JUNGLE OUT THERE… Former heiress-turned-zookeeper Teddy Bentley knows what it's like to want a different kind of life. So she can understand why her coworker won't talk about her past, even though "Koala Kate" is Gunn Zoo's biggest human...






  • When P.I. Lena Jones's Pima Indian partner Jimmy Sisiwan is arrested in the remote northern Arizona town of Walapai Flats, Lena closes the Desert Investigations office and rushes to his aid. What she finds is a town up in arms over a new uranium mine...



  • Zookeeper Theodora "Teddy" Bentley takes Alejandro, the Gunn Zoo llama, to a Monterey Bay-area Renaissance Faire only to discover the still-warm body of the Reverend Victor Emerson, owner of the local wedding chapel, dressed in his royal robes as Hen...



  • Ferociously ambitious U.S. Senatorial candidate Juliana Thorsson has been keeping a secret. The horrific slaughter of a prominent doctor, his wife, and their ten-year-old son inside their Scottsdale home brings Thorsson to Private Investigator Lena J...



  • California zookeeper Theodora Bentley travels to Iceland to pick up an orphaned polar bear cub destined for the Gunn Zoo’s newly installed Northern Climes exhibit. The trip is intended to be a combination of work and play. But on day two, while ...



  • 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, ...



  • When California zookeeper Theodora "Teddy" Bentley sees an otter clutching a new smart phone while swimming in the local marsh, she rescues the expensive instrument. Inspecting it, Teddy discovers that it had taken a picture of a man in the act of be...



  • The next book in A Gunn Zoo Mystery Series finds zookeeper Theodora "Teddy" Bentley taking on dangerous secrets, kooky animals, and new family membersCalifornia zookeeper Theodora Bentley is now happily married to Sheriff Joe Rejas. The Gunn Zoo is c...



  • "In Jones's electrifying 10th...Scottsdale, Arizona, PI Lena is approached by Harold Slow Horse, one of Arizona's leading artists...[and] gets on a trail that leads her at long last to answers about her troubled past..." -- Publishers WeeklyAt the a...



  • "Lovers of post-WWI Paris will have fun." -- Publishers Weekly"It's perfectly frothy fun supported by a wealth of tasty historical tidbits." -- BooklistPulsing with the glamour and excitement of the Jazz Age, Lost in Paris explores a young woman’...



  • One woman's trash is another woman's--lost Chagall masterpiece?!?Expat Zoe Barlow has settled well into her artist’s life among the Lost Generation in 1920s Paris. When a too-tipsy guest at her weekly poker game breaks Zoe’s favorite clock, sheâ€...





Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Betty Webb has published 19 books.

Betty Webb does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Clock Struck Murder, was published in April 2024.

The first book by Betty Webb, Desert Noir, was published in June 2001.

Yes. Betty Webb has 3 series.