Book review: Desert Remains

I haven’t been to Arizona since I was 12 years old. But as a child, we went every summer. Reading Steven Cooper’s crime mystery series, including Desert Remains, Dig Your Grave, and Valley of Shadows, I was transported back to the dry desert heat and running around in xeriscaped yards of rocks and cacti, so strange compared to the lush, soft grass and pine trees of back home in Georgia. We…