Judith A. Jance
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English
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With a divorce from her cheating husband of ten years pending and her high-profile broadcasting career abruptly ended by TV executives who wanted a "younger face," Alison Reynolds feels there's nothing keeping her in L.A. any longer. Summoned back home to Sedona, Arizona, by the death of a childhood friend, she seeks solace in the comforting rhythms of her parents' diner, the Sugarloaf Café, and launches an on-line blog as therapy for others who...
2) Fatal error
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2011.
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English
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Ali Reynolds begins the summer thinking her most difficult challenge will be surviving a six-week- long course as the lone forty-something female at the Arizona Police Academy-not to mention taking over the 6:00 AM shift at her family's restaurant while her parents enjoy a long overdue Caribbean cruise. However, when Brenda Riley, a colleague from Ali's old news broadcasting days in California, shows up in town with an alcohol problem and an unlikely...
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Joanna Brady mysteries volume 3
Pub. Date
[1995]
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English
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A prisoner languishes in a Phoenix jail cell, accused of brutally slaying his estranged wife. No one believes the man is innocent, except the new female sheriff of Cochise County, in town for a crash course in police training. Joanna Brady is out of her jurisdiction--and possibly in over her head. For a human monster is on the prowl, hiding the grisly evidence of his horrific crimes in the vast emptiness of the Arizona desert. And an impromptu investigation,...
4) Cruel intent
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2008.
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English
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When Ali Reynolds' contractor, Bryan Forester, is the prime suspect in his wife's murder, Ali is determined to prove his innocence landing herself directly in the path of a calculating killer.
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2023.
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English
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After spending twenty years behind bars, Frank Muñoz, a disgraced former cop, is out on parole and focused on just one thing: revenge. The wife who abandoned him after his arrest, the mistress who ratted him out for abetting a money-laundering scheme, the detectives who presided over his case all those years ago--they all have targets on their backs. For Ali Reynolds, the first Christmas without her father is riddled with grief and uncertainty. And...
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Joanna Brady mysteries volume 1
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[1993]
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English
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Determined to clear her late husband Andy's name after police brass claim that his shooting death was the result of his involvement in drug running, Joanna Brady attempts to find Andy's killers.
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Joanna Brady mysteries volume 6
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1998.
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English
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Sheriff Joanna Brady investigates a series of deaths in Cochise County, Arizona, where the victims were shot and scalped. Suspicion centers on a nearby ranch where European tourists come to play at Indians.
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Joanna Brady mysteries volume 4
Pub. Date
1996.
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English
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In Arizona, when a house burns down with its veterinarian owner inside, suspicion falls on the husband of a woman whom the veterinarian ran over. But after talking to the suspect, Sheriff Joanna Brady's feminine intuition tells her the man is innocent and she sets out to find the real killer.
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J. P. Beaumont mysteries volume 25
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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"Years ago, when he was a homicide detective with the Seattle PD, J. P. Beaumont's partner, Sue Danielson, was murdered. Volatile and angry, Danielson's ex-husband came after her in her home and, with nowhere else to turn, Jared, Sue's teenage son, frantically called Beau for help. As Beau rushed to the scene, he urged Jared to grab his younger brother and flee the house. In the end, Beaumont's plea and Jared's quick action saved the two boys from...
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Joanna Brady mysteries volume 5
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1997.
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English
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It was love that brought young Brianna "Bree" O'Briento Skeleton Canyon for a romantic tryst with her adoring boyfriend, Ignacio Ybarra- a rendezvous the beautiful teenager would never live to experience. It waslove also that compelled Joanna Brady to seek-and win-the office of Cochise County Sheriff; love of her murdered policeman husband, whose memory she was honoring; of her little daughter, Jenny, for whom she was now solely responsible; and for...
13) Devil's claw
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Joanna Brady mysteries volume 8
Pub. Date
[2000]
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English
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In the desert, a Native American woman is dead--an ex-con once jailed for the murder of her husband--and her teenage daughter has vanished into the long shadows of the night-still canyons. A dedicated law officer, Sheriff Joanna Brady of Cochise County has suffered stoically through loss and pain--yet she has never wavered in her commitment to duty and the pursuit of justice. Now, as she stands on the brink of a new life and new happiness, death is...
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[1991]
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English
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Six years after her husband killed himself after being accused of murdering an Indian girl, Diana Ladd relies on a Native American wise woman and a local police detective to protect her and her son from her late husband's partner, recently released from prison.
15) Kiss of the bees
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2000.
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English
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In Tucson, twenty years ago, a psychopath named Andrew Carlisle brought blood and terror into the home of Diana Ladd Walker and her family. When Carlisle died in prison, Diana and her husband, ex-county sheriff Brandon Walker, believed their long nightmare was finally over. They were wrong. Their beloved adopted daughter Lani has vanished -- a beautiful Native American teenager destined, according to Tohono O'othham legend, to become a woman of great...
17) Second watch
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J. P. Beaumont mysteries volume 21
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2013.
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English
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Beaumont is taking some time off to get knee replacement surgery, but instead of taking his mind off work the operation plunges him into one of the most perplexing mysteries he's ever faced. His past collides with his present, explore the staggering cost of war and the debts we owe those who served in the Vietnam War, and those in uniform today.
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Joanna Brady mysteries volume 18
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English
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This time Sheriff Joanna Brady may expect to see her maternity leave through to completion, but the world has other plans when a serial homicide case surfaces in her beloved Cochise County. Rather than staying home with her newborn and losing herself in the cold cases to be found in her father's long unread diaries, Joanna instead finds herself overseeing a complex investigation involving multiple jurisdictions.
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J. P. Beaumont mysteries volume 12
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English
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A Seattle fisherman has died badly bound, tortured and set ablaze aboard his boat on the Puget Sound. And with his death comes disturbing questions and the key to a Pandora's Box of evil that has remained tightly closed for over half a century. Else Didriksen is no longer the beautiful, troubled teenager who disappeared from detective J.P. Beaumont's life thirty years earlier. Now she is a homicide victim's widow-frightened, desperate and trapped...