Joanna Brady mysteries
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Joanna Brady mysteries volume 2
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When drug dealers murdered her lawman husband, Joanna Brady vowed she would carry on his good work no matter what the cost. Now, as newly elected Sheriff of Cochise County, Arizona, she must battle the prejudice and hostility of a mistrustful, male-dominated police force and solve a grisly double homicide that threatens to tear the sleepy desert community to pieces.
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Joanna Brady mysteries volume 3
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Somewhere just outside Phoenix lurks a "peeping tom," a killer. He's abandoning his partially clad victims in the cool, dark desert, terrifying even the most intrepid Arizona women. Enter Joanna Brady, a young widow, and Cochise County's newly elected sheriff. Summoned to a police academy in Phoenix for officer training, she swiftly dodges her chauvinistic instructor for the state's hottest case. But when the killer strikes Joanna's female classmate,...
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Joanna Brady mysteries volume 5
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c1997
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Sheriff Joanna Brady struggles to make sense of the murder of Bree O'Brien, a young woman who died during what was supposed to be a romantic tryst in Skeleton Canyon with her boyfriend Ignacio, but while Bree's parents are certain Ignacio is the guilty party, Joanna senses there is something more behind the killing.
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Joanna Brady mysteries volume 6
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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 9
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2001
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The New York Times bestselling J.A. Jance is back! Cochise County, Arizona, and Sheriff Joanna Brady faces her most personal and dangerous case when her daughter discovers a body in the Arizona wilderness. When Cochise County, Arizona, Sheriff Joanna Brady′s daughter Jenny goes off on a Memorial Day weekend Girl Scout camp-out in nearby Apache Pass, Joanna trusts that her 12-year-old daughter will behave. But with boy-crazy Dora Matthews as a tentmate,...
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Partner in crime , Joanna Brady mysteries volume 10
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10) Exit Wounds
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Joanna Brady mysteries volume 11
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2006
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The intense desert heat has brought horror to a small corner of the Southwest. A body lies lifeless in an airless trailer, surrounded by seventeen others. It is a crime unspeakable in its conception and execution-a nightmare strangely connected to a grisly slaughter in a neighboring state, where the corpses of two women are found tied up, naked, and gruesomely posed on a rancher's land. A day that started out hot has already turned blistering for...
11) Dead Wrong
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Joanna Brady mysteries volume 12
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Juggling a family and a career has never been easy for Cochise County Sheriff Joanna Brady. Now the impending birth of her second child only adds to her burden, especially when two brutal crimes fall under her jurisdiction. A corpse is discovered in the Arizona desert with the fingers severed from both hands-the body of an ex-con who served twenty years for a murder he claimed not to remember. Soon after, one of Joanna's female officers is savagely...
12) Damage Control
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Joanna Brady mysteries volume 13
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Cochise County sheriff Joanna Brady investigates the death of a handicapped woman who had wandered away from a care facility with a suspicious track record and the deaths of an elderly couple who were presumably consenting partners in a suicide pact.
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Big-city homicide detective J. P. Beaumont and small-town sheriff/mom Joanna Brady join forces once again to solve a case involving a series of murders--six young women wrapped in tarps, doused with gasoline, and set on fire; and one elderly caretaker run over and left to die.
14) Judgment Call
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Joanna Brady mysteries volume 15
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When Joanna Brady's daughter, Jenny, stumbles across the body of her high school principal, Debra Highsmith, in the desert, the Cochise County sheriff's personal and professional worlds collide, forcing her to tread the difficult middle ground between being an officer of the law and a mother. While investigating murders has always meant discovering unpleasant facts and disquieting truths, the experienced Joanna isn't prepared for the knowledge she's...
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Joanna Brady mysteries volume 16
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2014
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An old woman, both a hermit and a hoarder, is dying in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. While cleaning out her dilapidated house, her estranged daughter, Liza Machett, discovers a fortune in hundred-dollar bills. For Liza, the money seems like a blessing--until an elderly man she's never met appears at her mother's funeral, warning that she's in danger. Suddenly, Liza's quiet life is turned upside down. Terrified, Liza sets off on a perilous cross-country...
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"Arizona sheriff Joanna Brady returns in this outstanding new mystery set in the beautiful desert country of the Southwest. With a baby on the way, sudden deaths in the family from which to recover, a re-election campaign looming, and a daughter heading off for college, Cochise County Sheriff Joanna Brady has her hands full when a puzzling new case hits her department, demanding every resource she has at her disposal. Two women have fallen to their...
17) Field of Bones
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Joanna Brady mysteries volume 18
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2018.
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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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Big-city homicide detective J. P. Beaumont and small-town sheriff/mom Joanna Brady join forces once again to solve a case involving a series of murders--six young women wrapped in tarps, doused with gasoline, and set on fire; and one elderly caretaker run over and left to die.
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"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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The Old Blue Line: a Joanna Brady novella
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