Her best-selling Lena Jones detective series (published by Poisoned Pen Press) -- Desert Shadows, Desert Wives, and Desert Noir--has garnered rave reviews from the New York Times, Chicago Tribune, and other prestigious national publications. Desert Wives, a mystery set in one of Arizona's notorious polygamy compounds, is in development to become a Lifetime-TV movie and series. Desert Run, based on a real-life murder in a German POW camp in Arizona during World War II, was released in March '06, to rave reviews. Betty also teaches creative writing at Phoenix Community College, and is the Small Press columnist for Mystery Scene Magazine, based in New York City.