The Sweat Box

An engineer is called out to meet with a contractor about a new water project that will put eleven hundred new homes in San Bernardino; a woman and her son are found dead inside their home; a young teen is raped and left for dead; someone is bringing illegals over the border to break in horses. A host of unsavory acts ties a rancher in Texas to old farming money in California. In The Sweat Box, the third Dalton Keys mystery, US Marshal Keys wends his way through an entanglement of relationships to find a barn burner and killer. The author writes of her motivation: "Much of this novel comes from an early childhood lived in the Salinas Monterey valley and from years at the wheel tracking indigent farm families, because the life of growing crops is so tough, often without adequate monetary reward, I wanted to show the motivation and hardship of landowners and their tenants. When I sat down with an aunt to review this material, she alughed and sighed. She didn't think of herself as an American until she had spent a years raising wheat".J. Lea Koretsky is the author of 'The Sweat Box' with ISBN 9781587901065 and ISBN 1587901064.