The Last Dunes Girl

The Last Dunes Girl is the second and sequel (to The Sword of Tecumseh, pub. 2019) in the Logan Wells mystery series. The story takes place in Prairie County, Indiana in 1990.Logan Wells, a former investigator with the county prosecutor’s office, has a chanceencounter with Bill Hanlen, the long serving and recently retired county sheriff. Hanlen tells Logan that he received a cryptic note purporting to be from one of the ’Dunes Girls’, three young women who disappeared from the Indiana Dunes over 20 years ago. Hanlen, who worked on that unsolved case, wants to find out who sent him the note and why, and requests Logan’s help. Logan is at first reluctant to assist him, skeptical that the 20-year-old case can be solved, and there had been unfortunate consequences for both men in the events that occurred in The Sword of Tecumseh. Logan ultimately agrees to help Hanlen, figuring he has nothing to lose, and he is intrigued by the case. Their investigation takes them from various places in Indiana to Florida, where, during a climactic and violent encounter, they uncover the mystery of the Dunes Girls’ disappearance.