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Jance, J. A. Birds of Prey: A Novel of Suspense
Avon January 1, 2002 0-380-71654-2 / 9780380716548 Paperback used: good; tilted spine
After 20 years in the Seattle Police Department, J.P. Beaumont has been putout to pasture. The hero of 14 J.A. Jance crime novels has called it quitsafter the murder of his partner. But if Beau is out to pasture, what is hedoing out at sea? Beau is on the Starfire Breeze, an Alaskan cruise ship,"for one reason and one reason only: to serve as my newlywed grandmother'schaperon."
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Jance, J. A. Day of the Dead
HarperCollins Publishers July 2005 0-380-72434-0 / 9780380724345 Mass Market Pa used; good
The Walker family survived the atrocities perpetrated by a serial killer and his crazed acolyte in both Hour of the Hunter and Kiss of the Bees. But can they escape the vengeance of a new killer or killers whose sights have been set on their precious daughter, Lani? Young girls are being spirited away from an orphanage deep in Colonial Mexico -- told they're traveling to aloving adoptive family in southern Arizona, their hopes are high. But thefate that waits for them is truly horrifying: when death comes, it will bea blessing....Former Sheriff Brandon Walker is living the life of a reluctant retiree. Playing golf while his wife, Diana Ladd, continues to write her bestselling tales of true crime, he desperately misses the action and sense of usefulness from days gone by. When he?s invited to join the Last Chance Club to review and attempt to solve long-cold cases, he little imagines the first case to cross his path will be one he may have botched back when he was sheriff. And when the case from all those decades past becomes entangled with a current murder, it seems a serial killer with a very long and shocking track record may be back in business....
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Jance, J. A. Day of the Dead (hardcover)
William Morrow August 1, 2004 0-688-13823-3 / 9780688138233 Hardcover Hardcover; excellent
FIRST EDITIONJance's third suspense thriller to feature ex-sheriff Brandon Walker and his family (after Hour of the Hunter and Kiss of the Bees) deftly mixes Native American mythology with a harrowing plot. An old Tohono O'odham woman, Emma Orozco, asks Walker for help in solving the brutal murder of her daughter, Roseanne, who was slain in 1970. Walker is able to take on the challenge because of his membership in TLC, The Last Chance, a privately funded agency that looks into old, unsolved crimes. This ingenious arrangement allows for great flexibility in the action of the story. As Walker searches for clues in Roseanne's death, he comes across similar murders-each with no leads, each involving a dismembered body left alongside a road in the Southwest. The reader learns more and more about the killers, the sexually voracious, utterly amoral Gayle Stryker and her husband, Larry, a truly effective pair of monsters. Meanwhile, Walker's dear friend Fat Crack Ortiz, a Tohono O'odham man, is dying of complications from diabetes. Most of Walker's friends, in fact, are Indians, as is his adopted daughter, Lani. He draws not so much knowledge as strength and perspective from them-no mumbo-jumbo here, only believable sensitivity.
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Jance, J. A. Dead to Rights: A Joanna Brady Mystery
Avon Books October 1996 0-380-97394-4 / 9780380973941 Hardcover; w/j used; both book/jacket very good
The best thing about Jance's books is Joanna Brady who became an Arizona county sheriff after her father and husband died on the job. Jance can move Brady from an exciting, dangerous scene on one page to a sensitive, touchingpersonal moment on the next. In her latest outing, Brady is looking into two major crimes. But that doesn't stop her from giving a terrific speech about why selling Girl Scout cookies gave her confidence, or worrying about afriend trying to adopt a child in China, or even finally beginning to understand what makes her annoying mother tick. Earlier books in the Brady series: Desert Heat, Tombstone Courage, Shoot, Don't Shoot.
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Jance, J.A. Desert Heat
Avon February 1, 199 0-380-76545-4 / 9780380765454 Mass Market Pa used: good
Jance ( Hour of the Hunter ) has created a taut and poignant mystery. Joanna Brady finds her husband, Andy, shot in the Arizona desert on the night oftheir tenth wedding anniversary. But this, and Andy's subsequent suspicious death in the hospital, is only the beginning of the destruction of the comfortable world of Joanna and her nine-year-old daughter, Jenny. The policedecide that Andy, a sheriff's deputy, tried to commit suicide. He is further implicated as the hit man in a mob rub-out and fingered as a crooked copwith drug-cartel connections. Even his personal life is dragged through the mud, as allegations of an extramarital affair surface. Neither mother nordaughter is spared from the brutality of the accusations: the DEA comes after Joanna, while schoolmates taunt Jenny. All the while, Jance cross-cutsto the contract killer who shot Andy.
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Jance, J.A. Devil's Claw(Hardcover)
William Morrow July 3, 2000 0-380-97501-7 / 9780380975013 Hardcover hardcover w/dustjacket; good
A missing teenager and an octogenarian found dead of apparently natural causes are pretty run-of-the-mill cases in Bisbee, Arizona, where Sheriff Joanna Brady is focusing on the last-minute details of her upcoming wedding. In this latest outing in Judith Jance's Brady series, the connection betweenthe two events is a thin one. In the author's capable hands, however, it'senough to drive this well-plotted mystery to a credible conclusion.Fifteen-year-old Lucy Ridder dreads her mother's release from prison, eight years after she was convicted of killing Lucy's beloved father. Lucy is aware that her mother's priority is not a family reunion but the retrieval of a mysterious diskette entrusted to Lucy by her dad shortly before his death. After inadvertently witnessing her mother's brutal slaying by a stranger who's also hot after the diskette, Lucy vanishes. It takes most of the novel for Joanna to figure out that Lucy's disappearance is tied to her mother's murder, and for good reasons. Besides the distraction of her pending nuptials, the sheriff has been accused of killing her elderly, beloved neighbor for financial gain. Because the reader knows the truth of both situations very early in the game, Joanna's delayed awareness doesn't pack as much wallop as it might. The greater mystery is whether she'll strangle her wedding-obsessed mother before she and her too-good-to-be-true fiancé make it to the altar. --Jane Adams
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Jance, J. A. Exit Wounds
Avon August 1, 2004 0-380-80471-9 / 9780380804719 Mass Market Pa used; good
Adult/High School-Sheriff Joanna Brady investigates the murder of Carol Mossman, who lived alone in the desert and was shot with an antique gun. Her 17 dogs died, too, due to an intense buildup of heat in the trailer. The investigation leads to the deceased woman's siblings, grandmother, and father,and two murdered female reporters. As the facts come together, it becomesapparent that the victim's father raped his daughters, impregnating at least two. While working on the case, Brady deals with the local animal activist group and illegal immigrants, all while running for reelection. While none of the scenes depict details of the incestuous relationships, the lastingeffect of abuse becomes a major point of the story. The human abuse in turn leads back to the topic of animal abuse, painting a sad picture of the horrors of both. But Jance manages to keep the atmosphere positive, with lotsof action, energy, and realism along the way, and Brady's personal thoughts and beliefs give a perspective to the events.
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Jance, J. A. Failure to Appear
HarperCollins Publishers March 1999 0-380-75839-3 / 9780380758395 Mass Market Pa used; good
A shattering tale of tragedy and horror from top ten New York Times bestselling author J.A. Jance.A desperate father's search for his runaway daughter has led him to the last place he ever expected to find her: backstage at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. But the murders in this dazzling world of make-believe are no longer mere stagecraft, and the blood is all too real. The hunt for his child has plunged former Seattle Homicide Detective J.P. Beaumont into a bone-chilling drama of revenge, greed, and butchery, where innocents are made to suffer in perverse and terrible ways. And many more young lives are at stake,unless he can uncover the villain of the piece before the final, deadly curtain falls.
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Jance, J. A. Justice Denied(Hardcover)
William Morrow July 24, 2007 0-06-054092-3 / 9780060540920 Hardcover used; good; ex-library
STATED FIRST EDITIONIn bestseller Jance's complex, overlong 18th J.P. Beaumont novel (after Long Time Gone), the Seattle special homicide investigator works three cases simultaneously. The first involves the murder of a wrongly imprisoned ex-con, the second the disappearance of a whistle-blowing electronics engineer who vanished the day Mount Saint Helen's erupted in 1980, the third the deaths of several former felons. Meanwhile, Mel Soames, Beau's female colleague and lover, looks into the unexplained deaths of recently released sex crimes perpetrators as well as the disappearance of a childhood friend's abusive father. Unbelievably, all Beaumont's and Mel's assignments meld into one, except for the case of the missing engineer. The detectives are helped by the delightful Todd Hatcher, a young forensic economist and statistical analyst, but the exceptionally busy plot, host of characters, incredible coincidences, ignored clues and red herrings add up to a less than stellar effort from the usually reliable Jance. (July)
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Jance, J. A. Kiss of the Bees: A Novel of Suspense
Avon January 1, 2001 0-380-80599-5 / 9780380805990 Mass Market Pa used: very good
FklyJance takes time out from her popular series featuring lawyer J.P. Beaumont (Breach of Duty) and Sheriff Joanna Brady (Outlaw Mountain) with this many-layered but overplotted suspense novel, set in the Arizona desert and suffused with the mystery and otherworldliness of Papago Indian folklore. Ex-con Mitch Johnson takes revenge on prize-winning author Diana Ladd Walker and former Tucson sheriff Brandon Walker by abducting their adopted teenage Papago daughter, Lani .
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Jance, J. A. Paradise Lost(Hardcover)
William Morrow August 7, 2001 0-380-97729-X / 9780380977291 Hardcover used; good; ex-library
Joanna Brady returns in J.A. Jance's ninth adventure featuring the Arizonasheriff. Joanna and Butch, her new husband, are trying to build their dreamhouse, adjust to their marriage, and cope with the preteen mood swings ofJoanna's 12-year-old daughter, Jenny. During a Girl Scout camping trip to Cochise County, Jenny and another girl sneak out of their tents after lights out to have a cigarette and stumble on the body of a murder victim. Joanna is initially more concerned about her daughter's misbehavior than the murder at Apache Pass--after all, smoking can kill you--but then Dora Matthews, Jenny's coconspirator, is killed. Joanna's fear that her daughter mightbe in the killer's sights adds an extra dose of adrenaline to her efforts to find the man who left the body for Jenny and Dora to find. Add that worryto the sheriff's suspicion that Butch may be having an affair with a former girlfriend and you have the makings of a typical Joanna Brady novel: longon intelligence, empathy, and humanity and short on shootouts and suspense. Jance's other series, featuring Seattle cop J.P. Beaumont, features moreintricate plotting and louder firepower. Brady's not as complex as Beaumont or as fully developed a character, but she leads with her heart, and herstruggles to balance her personal and professional life bring interest.
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Jance, J.A. Skeleton Canyon: A Joanna Brady Mystery(hardcover)
Avon Books August 1997 0-380-97395-2 / 9780380973958 Hardcover used; both book/jacket very good
Once again, relationships between mothers and daughters shape and give humanity to an exciting mystery in J.A. Jance's excellent series about Joanna Brady, the sheriff of Bisbee, Arizona. Bree O'Brien, high school valedictorian and cheerleader, has upset her wealthy parents by taking up with IgnacioYbarra, a hardworking Hispanic football star. The last words found in Bree's journal after she is discovered murdered in Skeleton Canyon while waiting for Ignacio are "My Mother is a liar." Sheriff Brady, torn between the temporary loss of her own daughter (to camp) and strange behavior by her demanding mother, looks for a link between Bree's death and suspicious activities at the O'Brien home near the Mexican border. As always, the desert environment--in this case, the dangers of fast floods--plays a major part in thestory.
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Jance, J. A. Tombstone Courage(hardcover)
William Morrow & Co June 1994 0-688-13247-2 / 9780688132477 Hardcover used; both book/jacket very good
Introduced in Desert Heat, young Joanna Brady is a no-nonsense widow running for sheriff in the new wild West. In the gritty mining and ranching community of Bisbee, Ariz., Joanna hopes to take over the office held by her husband when he was killed by a drug dealer's hit man six weeks before. HollyPatterson, a tormented substance abuser, has returned with her lawyer and hypnotherapist to file an unsavory personal injury suit against her feisty,octogenarian father, Harold. Though he appears to be a decent man, Harold clearly has a secret, but it may not be the one Holly is suggesting. As Joanna faces a tough, and sexist, election campaign, she must also come to terms with her widowhood, her overbearing mother and the complicated reactionsof her now fatherless nine-year-old daughter. Jance, who also writes the J.P. Beaumont mysteries, maintains generally deft control of her touchy, trendy material. While some of the cast seem stock and the ending is somewhatoverwrought, Joanna is engaging and credible, and the novel's pace is unflagging.
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