1.   Chandler is a desert town, like Phoenix, bleached and scattered over the desert like bones.

2.   Classical music concerts are rarer than summer rainstorms in this isolated high desert town a few hundred miles north of Los Angeles.

3.   It involves a desert town you can explore at will, filled with scheming people you can talk to.

4.   Nevertheless, to the desert towns like Tierra Amarilla that depend on small copper mines, a recovery looks like a mirage.

5.   Once again, the mood is breezy and the banter full of zip as Spenser investigates a case, this time in the desert town of the title.

6.   Ortiz portrays a gulf war veteran stationed in a California desert town.

7.   Postcards from this desert resort town often feature a golfer in full swing on a lush course, driving toward a dramatic mountain range in the distance.

8.   Scottsdale, a prosperous desert town where the landscape is dotted with golf courses and manicured gardens, is staunchly Republican.

9.   Standing on the football field at Boron High School, it is impossible not to be distracted by the nothingness that surrounds this tiny desert town.

10.   Suddenly, this demented desert town is showing a glimmer of emotional control, and even fiscal restraint, of all things.