J.A. Jance. S&S/Touchstone, $25.99 (352p) ISBN 978-1-4767-4504-6
Two cases engage Ali Reynolds and her new husband, tech guru B. Simpson, in bestseller Jance’s lively 10th novel featuring the former L.A. TV newscaster now living in her hometown of Sedona, Ariz. (after 2014’s Moving Target). The first one involves
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J.A. Jance. Morrow, $26.99 (400p) ISBN 978-0-06-213470-7
A seeming stroke of good fortune for Liza Machett—finding $147,000 in $100 bills squirreled away by her late mother—proves quite the contrary in bestseller Jance's absorbing 16th in the series featuring tough but tender-hearted Sheriff Joanna Brady (
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J.A. Jance. S&S/Touchstone, $25.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-4767-4500-8
At the start of Jance’s engrossing ninth Ali Reynolds novel (after 2013’s Deadly Stakes), Ali, eager to escape the chaos surrounding her upcoming wedding to B. Simpson, travels from Sedona, Ariz., to England with her 80-something majordomo, Leland...
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J.A. Jance. Morrow, $26.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-06-213467-7
It takes more than a dual knee replacement to sideline J.P. Beaumont, as shown in bestseller Jance’s appealing 21st novel featuring the crusty Seattle homicide investigator (after 2011’s Betrayal of Trust). Prompted by images from his drug-induced...
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J.A. Jance. Touchstone, $25.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-4516-2868-5
Bestseller Jance’s busy eighth Ali Reynolds thriller (after 2012’s Left for Dead) takes the former newscaster from Sedona, Ariz., to Phoenix, where friend Brenda Riley is filming a story on cyberstalker Richard Lowensdale, whom Reynolds helped bring
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J.A. Jance. Morrow, $25.99 (400p) ISBN 978-0-06-173116-7
In bestseller Jance’s satisfying 15th novel of suspense featuring Cochise County, Ariz., sheriff Joanna Brady (after 2009’s Fire and Ice), Brady’s 15-year-old daughter, Jenny, discovers her high school principal, Debra Highsmith, shot to death in...
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J.A. Jance. Touchstone, $25.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-4516-2858-6
Bestseller Jance’s engaging seventh Ali Reynolds novel (after 2011’s Fatal Error) offers plenty of scope for the widowed former reporter, anchorwoman, and graduate of the Arizona Police Academy, who now heads a private charitable fund, to use her...
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J.A. Jance. Morrow, $25.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-06-173115-0
In Jance's solid if a tad sentimental 20th J.P. Beamont novel (after Fire and Ice), the creaky-kneed Seattle detective and his third wife, Mel, both working for the Washington attorney general's unfortunately acronymed Special Homicide Investigation
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J. A. Jance, Author William Morrow & Company $24 (373p) ISBN 978-0-380-97500-6
Joanna Brady--widow, single mother and sheriff of Cochise County, Ariz.--is the star of Jance's fine series of police procedurals. Joanna has grown and changed over the course of six novels (the most recent being Rattlesnake Crossing), and in this...
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J. A. Jance, Author . Morrow $25 (384p) ISBN 978-0-380-97729-1
In Cochise County (Ariz.) sheriff Joanna Brady's ninth outing, bestseller Jance verges on soap opera, but avoids the worst excesses of the type. Mother-daughter relationships get a real workout, as Joanna's brittle connection with her mother
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J.A. Jance. Gallery, $27.99 (352p) ISBN 978-1-9821-3111-1
At the start of bestseller Jance’s plodding 16th Ali Reynolds mystery (after 2020’s Credible Threat), Ali, the CFO of High Noon Enterprises, an Arizona cybersecurity company she owns with her husband, serves an eviction notice on Harvey McCloskey, a
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J.A. Jance. Morrow, $30 (368p) ISBN 978-0-06-325258-5
Personal and professional mysteries collide in Jance’s gripping 26th outing for J.P. Beaumont (after Nothing to Lose). The private investigator’s life is upended when his grandson, Kyle Cartwright, shows up at his home in Bellingham, Wash., and asks
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J.A. Jance. Morrow, $30 (352p) ISBN 978-0-06-301010-9
Jance (Nothing to Lose) proves she’s still at the top of her game in this tense crossover of her Joanna Brady and Walker Family series. A prologue, set in July 2022, identifies drifter Charles Milton as the murderer of six people. The action then...
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J.A. Jance. Gallery, $28.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-9821-8915-0
In bestseller Jance’s uneven 17th Ali Reynolds mystery (after 2021’s Unfinished Business), disgraced ex-cop Frank Muñoz, recently released from prison, is hell-bent on taking revenge on his wife, his girlfriend, and the police detectives who got him
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J.A. Jance. Morrow, $28.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-06-301006-2
Bestseller Jance’s enjoyable 25th J.P. Beaumont mystery (after 2019’s Sins of the Father) finds the 74-year-old former homicide cop turned PI putting up Christmas decorations at the home he shares with his wife, Melissa, the police chief of...
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J. A. Jance, Author Avon Books $7.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-380-75837-1
. Gripping but somewhat unconvincing novel of police murder and cover-up in Seattle. (Oct.)
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J.A. Jance. Morrow, $28.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-06-285346-2
In bestseller Jance’s riveting 19th novel featuring Cochise County, Ariz., sheriff Joanna Brady (after 2018’s Field of Bones), Deputy Armando Ruiz tries to serve Leon Hogan with a no-contact order as requested by the man’s estranged wife. Their...
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J.A. Jance. Morrow, $26.99 (360p) ISBN 978-0-06-229771-6
In bestseller Jance’s engrossing 17th novel featuring Cochise County, Ariz., sheriff Joanna Brady (after 2014’s Remains of Innocence), the pregnant Joanna, who’s facing an election campaign and has just lost her mother and stepfather in a road...
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J.A. Jance. S&S/Touchstone, $25.99 (352p) ISBN 978-1-5011-1072-6
Bestseller Jance’s unconvincing 11th Ali Reynolds novel (after 2015’s Cold Betrayal) focuses on the former L.A. newscaster’s parents, Bob and Edie Larson, who have retired from running a diner in Sedona, Ariz. When Bob learns from the TV news that...
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J.A. Jance. Morrow, $26.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-06-229766-2
Bestseller Jance’s 51st novel brings together two of her popular series characters—Seattle detective J.P. Beaumont and Arizona sheriff Brandon Walker—in a highly entertaining plot that honors both of these now-retired cops. Grounded in the legends...
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J. A. Jance, Author . Morrow $25.95 (374p) ISBN 978-0-06-074676-6
Sheriff Joanna Brady and her staff face a host of challenges while her husband, Butch, tends their infant son in bestseller Jance's solid 13th novel to feature the Cochise County, Ariz., cop (after Dead Wrong
). A woman shoots a home intruder,...
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J.A. Jance, Touchstone, $25.99 (368p) ISBN 978-1-4165-6381-5
Near the start of Jance's entertaining sixth Ali Reynolds thriller (after Trial by Fire), ex-TV anchor Ali agrees to meet Brenda Riley, a former news colleague, at a Peoria, Ariz., bar. Drunk and out of control, Brenda complains to Ali that she can't
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J. A. Jance, Author Avon Books $22 (373p) ISBN 978-0-380-97394-1
Cochise County, Ariz., sheriff Joanna Brady (Shoot/Don't Shoot) has her newly elected hands full in this fourth adventure. When veterinarian Amos Buckwalter is murdered by arson, deputies immediately suspect Hal Morgan, whose wife, Bonnie, was...
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J.A. Jance, Morrow, $25.99 (368p) ISBN 978-006-123924-3
Dedicated to the late Tony Hillerman, Jance's brilliant fourth suspense novel featuring former homicide detective Brandon Walker and his wife, novelist Diana Ladd (after Day of the Dead), spans some 50 years, from a murder in 1959 in San Diego to a...
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J. A. Jance, Author . Touchstone $25.99 (357p) ISBN 978-1-4165-6380-8
In bestseller Jance's middling fifth Ali Reynolds thriller (after Cruel Intent
), the ex–TV journalist takes over a media-relations job at the county police department in her hometown of Sedona, Ariz., after the previous flack is sent on...
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J. A. Jance, Author . Morrow $25.99 (338p) ISBN 978-0-06-123922-9
Bestseller Jance brings together her two most popular characters, Seattle homicide investigator J.P. Beaumont and Cochise County, Ariz., sheriff Joanna Brady, for a gripping tale that's easily one of her best. While their first dual outing,...
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J. A. Jance, Author . Touchstone $25.95 (340p) ISBN 978-1-4165-6379-2
As if remodeling an old mansion near picturesque Sedona, Ariz., isn't stress enough for Ali Reynolds, the plucky former TV newscaster must also deal with cybernetic lonely hearts, frustrated lust and murder in bestseller Jance's uneven...
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J. A. Jance, Author . Touchstone $25.95 (368p) ISBN 978-1-4165-3753-3
Jance keeps former L.A. TV news anchor Ali Reynolds in her native Arizona for her third lead appearance (following Web of Evil
). Ali, still recovering from the murder of her not-quite-ex-husband, is aided by her parents and her old high school chum,
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J. A. Jance, Author . Morrow $25.95 (371p) ISBN 978-0-06-054092-0
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n 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...
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J. A. Jance, Author . Touchstone $25.95 (368p) ISBN 978-1-4165-3707-6
At the start of bestseller Jance's uninspired second Ali Reynolds thriller (after Edge of Evil
), Ali's husband, Paul Grayson, is killed on the eve of their divorce—by a train that hits the car where he's tied up in the trunk...
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J. A. Jance, Author . Morrow $25.95 (362p) ISBN 978-0-06-054090-6
The solid 12th entry in bestseller Jance's lively crime series (Exit Wounds
, etc.) to feature Joanna Brady, sheriff of Cochise County, Ariz., finds Joanna newly reelected and about to have her second child. When the cops learn that a murdered...
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J. A. Jance, Author . Avon $7.99 (390p) ISBN 978-0-06-082841-7
At the start of this disappointing thriller from bestseller Jance (Long Time Gone
), Alison Reynolds, a 45-year-old Los Angeles television news anchor, loses her job, realizes her marriage is a sham and learns that her childhood friend Reenie...
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J. A. Jance, Author . Morrow $24.95 (339p) ISBN 978-0-688-13824-0
Two family tragedies 50 years apart challenge J.P. Beaumont, Seattle investigator for the Washington Special Homicide Investigation Team, in bestseller Jance's taut, colorful 17th entry in a series that started 20 years ago with Until Proven...
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J. A. Jance, Author . Morrow $23.95 (370p) ISBN 978-0-688-13823-3
Jance'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,...
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J. A. Jance, Author . Morrow $24.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-380-97731-4
In a fine addition to a lively series, bestseller Jance's ninth after last year's Partners in Crime, Arizona sheriff Joanna Brady once again juggles police work and her complicated personal schedule with élan. It's the Fourth of...
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J. A. Jance, Author . Morrow $24.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-380-97730-7
In this chilling novel, the prolific Nance successfully brings together her dyspeptic Seattle homicide detective J.P. Beaumont (Birds of Prey, etc.) and Cochise County, Ariz., Sheriff Joanna Brady (Paradise Lost, etc.). When artist Rochelle Baxter...
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J. A. Jance, Author Avon Books $7.99 (376p) ISBN 978-0-380-75836-4
In his ninth appearance, Detective J. P. Beaumont of the Seattle Police is swamped with problems: a pair of corpses at the public school district office, and the unwelcome assistance of self-promoting Detective Paul Kramer. Marcia Kelsey, a district
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J. A. Jance, Author William Morrow & Company $22 (0p) ISBN 978-0-688-11460-2
Investigating the shooting death of a man whose corpse is found in Elliott Bay, Seattle homicide detective J.P. Beaumont, seen last in Lying in Wait, turns up an excess of suspects. Nobody grieves when the victim is identified. An executive at...
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J. A. Jance, Author Avon Books $23 (384p) ISBN 978-0-380-97395-8
Jance is an expert at writing rich mysteries filled with as much human decency as skullduggery. When high-school valedictorian Bree O'Brien is found dead in the southeastern Arizona mountains, suspicion falls on her boyfriend, Ignacio Ybarra, who...
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J. A. Jance, Author William Morrow & Company $21 (281p) ISBN 978-0-688-13821-9
If, after nearly being done in at the conclusion of Tombstone Courage, newly elected Cochise County, Ariz., sheriff Joanna Brady thought she deserved a calm spell, she had another think coming. The plucky widow, whose sheriff husband was slain on...
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J. A. Jance, Author William Morrow & Company $17.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-688-02013-2
Seattle police detective J.P. Beaumont meets his past in this gripping fourth adventure (after Failure to Appear). Called to the scene of a boat fire, Beau discovers Gunter Gebhardt burned to death and handcuffed to a table, his fingers and toes...
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J. A. Jance, Author William Morrow & Company $20 (300p) ISBN 978-0-688-13247-7
Introduced in Desert Heat , a paperback original, 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...
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J. A. Jance, Author William Morrow & Company $20 (269p) ISBN 978-0-688-12674-2
Seattle police detective J. P. Beaumont makes his 11th appearance, following Without Due Process , in this expertly crafted tale that turns on child pornography and revenge. Although Beau is working in the small tourist town of Ashland, Oreg., this...
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J. A. Jance, Author William Morrow & Company $20 (302p) ISBN 978-0-688-11459-6
Once she clears the clouds obscuring issues of motive in the opening chapters, Jance ( Hour of the Hunter) proceeds with a gripping expose of cop murder and cover-up. Seattle police officer Ben Weston and his family--with the exception of the...
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J. A. Jance, Author William Morrow & Company $20 (370p) ISBN 978-0-688-09630-4
The author of the J. P. Beaumont series moves into new territory with this mystery that draws on Native American life and lore. Six years in Arizona State Prison have turned convicted rapist/murderer Andrew Carlisle into a killing machine. Along...
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J. A. Jance, Author William Morrow & Company $24 (389p) ISBN 978-0-380-97747-5
Jance 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...
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J. A. Jance, Author William Morrow & Company $24 (374p) ISBN 978-0-380-97501-3
Southwestern mysteries continue to grow in popularity, with Jance's series, set in southern Arizona, one of the strongest entries in the subgenre. The new novel to feature Sheriff Joanna Brady opens at the entrance to a desert canyon called the...
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J. A. Jance, Author William Morrow & Company $23 (343p) ISBN 978-0-380-97406-1
In his 14th outing (and first in three years), Seattle homicide detective J.P. Beaumont (Name Withheld, etc.) finds, along with his new partner, Sue Danielson, that seemingly ho-hum investigations grow in grim complexity even as personal...
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J. A. Jance, Author William Morrow & Company $23 (371p) ISBN 978-0-380-97499-3
""Yes, indeed, folks is droppin' like flies,"" a crotchety witness says to Sheriff Joanna Brady. ""I don't remember us havin' this kind of murder problem back when we had a man for sheriff."" A killer is loose in Cochise County, Ariz., and Brady is...
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J. A. Jance, Author Avon Books $7.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-380-76548-5
Third installment in Jance's Joanna Brady series. (Oct.)
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J. A. Jance, Author Avon Books $7.99 (416p) ISBN 978-0-380-76546-1
Newly elected sheriff of an Arizona town, sleuth Joanna Brady must solve the murder of a local cattle rancher while dealing with prejudice in a male-dominated police force. (Apr.)
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J. A. Jance, Author Avon Books $7.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-380-76545-4
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 of their tenth wedding anniversary. But this, and Andy's subsequent suspicious death in the hospital,
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J. A. Jance, Author Avon Books $7.99 (400p) ISBN 978-0-380-71841-2
In the 12th installment of Jance's J.P. Beaumont series, Beaumont investigates the brutal murder of an old high-school friend. (Jan.)
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J. A. Jance, Author Avon Books $7.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-380-75839-5
Child pornography and revenge figure into this well-crafted novel featuring detective J.P. Beaumont. (Sept.)
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J. A. Jance, Author Avon Books $7.99 (416p) ISBN 978-0-380-71107-9
Drawing on Native American life and lore as it describes the hunt for the killer of a Papago Indian girl, Jance's contemporary novel delivers suspense through rich layers of flashbacks and gritty characterization. (Sept.)
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J. A. Jance, Author Avon Books $7.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-380-75546-2
Fans will be disappointed by a lack of imagination in Jance's ( Until Proven Guilty ) latest mystery featuring J. P. Beaumont, hard-drinking detective. When he checks into an alcohol and drug rehabilitation center in rural Arizona, the bad-tempered...
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J. A. Jance, Author, Hillary Huber, Performed by, Erik Davies, Performed by , read by Hillary Huber and Erik Davies. Harper Audio $39.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-177668-7
Two of Jance's most acclaimed characters, Arizona sheriff Joanna Brady and Seattle homicide investigator J. P. Beaumont, are brought together for this intriguing mystery. Beaumont is dealing with his sixth murder victim, the latest in a series...
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J. A. Jance, Author, Susan Ericksen, Performed by , read by Susan Ericksen. Harper Audio $39.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-089794-9
In Jance's 12th Joanna Brady novel, the sheriff of Cochise County, Arizona, is faced with two major professional cases: the murder of a self-confessed wife killer recently released from jail and the brutal rape and beating of an animal control...
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J. A. Jance, Author, Karen Ziemba, Read by , read by Karen Ziemba. Simon & Schuster Audio $29.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7435-7487-7
Ex–TV journalist Ali Reynolds is trying to get her house remodeled in time for her son's wedding. But her contractor has been framed for his wife's murder by a serial killer who runs an Internet dating service for the unhappily...
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