Judith A. Jance
Author
Series
Joanna Brady mysteries volume 5
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1991]
Language
English
Description
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.
23) Kiss of the bees
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Series
Joanna Brady mysteries volume 16
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
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.
28) Judgment call
Author
Series
Joanna Brady mysteries volume 15
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
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.
31) Second watch
Author
Series
J. P. Beaumont mysteries volume 21
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
33) Hand of evil
Author
Series
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.
Author
Series
J. P. Beaumont mysteries volume 5
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"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....
36) Moving target
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
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...
37) 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...
40) Matchup
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Matchup takes the never-before-seen bestseller pairings of FaceOff and adds a ... new twist: gender, [in which] eleven of the world's best female thriller writers from Diana Gabaldon to Charlene Harris are paired with eleven of the world's best male thriller writers, including John Sandford, C.J. Box, and Nelson DeMille"--