Dragonfly Bones Nominated for the Otter award - Left Coast Crime 2004 Cloaked in the web's anonymity, part-Hopi computer hacker Laura Winslow is hiding from her past -- but it has found her in the Arizona desert. The daughter she lost years ago is now an angry young woman serving prison time. But Spider's agreement to help the authorities uncover an identity theft ring in exchange for leniency has led the police to a secret burial ground near Casa Grande Monument -- where mother and child are reunited . . . in terror. The discarded bones are human, and they may be all that remain of dozens of inexplicably missing women. In this place of death and silence on Native American land, Laura Winslow fears for her daughter, who may be the next to die -- unless together they can expose an insidious evil blooming beneath the blind eyes of the law . . . the terrible beast that is now hunting them both.

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Read what others are saying "Cole's characters are vividly portrayed, and the story -- with Laura Winslow's personal and emotional problems at its center -- will keep the reader turning the pages." —I Love A Mystery "A thriller that will have you burning the light way past midnight." —MysteryLovers.com "David Cole, an exciting newcomer whose Butterfly Lost is sure to please fans of Native American Fiction." —Mystery Guild "A gritty mystery, written in spare, severe prose that matches the Arizona desert setting. The mystery is interesting, the pace is quick and sure, and the author skillfully weaves together seemingly unconnected cases into a cohesive resolution." —The Romance Reader's Connection