Judith A Jance
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Joanna Brady mysteries volume 16
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
Description
While investigating two separate cases, Sheriff Joanna Brady must discover if the death of a family friend whose body was found in a limestone cavern is linked to the discovery of a fortune in $100 bills hidden in the house of a hoarder.
25) Judgment call
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Joanna Brady mysteries volume 15
Pub. Date
[2012]
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English
Description
When her daughter, Jenny, stumbles across the dead body of her high school principal, Cochise County Sheriff Joanna Brady's personal and professional worlds collide, putting her in the difficult middle ground between being an officer of the law and a mother.
26) Second watch
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J. P. Beaumont mysteries volume 21
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
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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J. P. Beaumont mysteries volume 5
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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"J. P. Beaumont and Brandon Walker, two of New York Times bestselling author J. A. Jance's most acclaimed series characters, join forces for the first time in one of the most suspenseful works of her career. Prospector Amos Warren and Big Bad John Lassiter, his young protege were as close as father and son until a violent argument tore them apart. The next day, Amos disappeared, never to be seen again. Years later, his bones were found in the desert....
30) Hand of evil
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Alison Reynolds mysteries volume 3
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Ali Reynolds, who is grieving over a lost job and her deceased philandering husband, learns that a friend's teenage daughter has disappeared and offers to help, beginning a quest that will reveal a deadly ring of secrets.
32) Moving target
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Pub. Date
2014.
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English
Description
Lance Tucker, an incarcerated juvenile offender doing time for hacking into the San Leandro School District's computer system, is severely burned one night in a lock-up rec room. The police say that he did it to himself, but B. Simpson, Ali Reynolds's fiancé and the man who helped put Lance in jail, feels obligated to investigate. Lance is famous for developing software that allows users to surf the web undetected. And that digital camouflage is...
33) Outlaw mountain
Author
Series
Joanna Brady mysteries volume 7
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Alice Rogers, an elderly widow, is dead, found murdered in the Arizona desert. It's easy enough to pin the killing on the teens caught driving her car across the Mexican border, but Sheriff Brady isn't about to let it go at that. Alice was something of a free spirit, with a penchant for Scotch, the glitter of Las Vegas, and a romance with a man twenty years her junior. Her hot-tempered daughter Susan suspects Mom's boyfriend --her former handyman...
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Joanna Brady mysteries volume 19
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English
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Protecting a brilliant freshman whose homeschooled life has left her unprepared for the outside world, Jennifer invites the vulnerable girl home for a Christmas break that embroils Sheriff Joanna Brady in a volatile missing-persons case.
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Joanna Brady mysteries volume 20
Language
English
Description
"Driven by a compulsion that challenges his self-control, the man calling himself Charles Milton prowls the rodeo circuit, hunting young women. For years, he has been meticulous in his methods, abducting, murdering, and disposing of his victims while leaving no evidence of his crimes--or their identities--behind. Indigenous women have become his target of choice, knowing law enforcement's history of ignoring their disappearances. A cold case has just...
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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...
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"Sheriff Joanna Brady has a lot on her plate--she is up for re-election as sheriff, pregnant with her third child, and her eldest is packing up to leave for college. Then Joanna is woken in the middle of the night by a call reporting a motor vehicle accident. Her mother and stepfathers RV ran off the road at high speed and hit the pillar of an overpass. Something about the accident seems suspicious, though, and when Joanna gets a call from Ali Reynolds,...
40) Ring in the dead
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English
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As a flash from the past, the daughter of his first partner Milton Gurkey (Pickles) shows up, and Beaumont relives his rookie days in which--while in the midst of suffering a heart attack--Pickles stumbles into a crime in progress. In the end, a woman's dead, Pickles is unconscious--holding the murder weapon--and rookie Beaumont and his cop friends must find out the truth.