Joanna Brady mysteries
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1) Desert heat
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Series
Joanna Brady mysteries volume 1
Description
Joanna Brady dedicates herself to finding out the truth when her husband Andy, a Cochise County police officer, is shot in what is passed off by the police brass as a suicide attempt, and then implicated in a drug smuggling operation.
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Joanna Brady mysteries volume 2
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With grit, courage and dogged determination, Joanne challenged the status quo -- and won. 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. For the two bodies baking in the harsh Southwestern sun are connected by sinister threads that reach back generations...
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Joanna Brady mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
c1996
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
373 p. 24 cm.
Language
English
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Series
Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
c1997
Physical Desc
387 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
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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Series
Joanna Brady mysteries volume 6
Description
Rattlesnake Crossing is J.A. Jance's sixth novel in the acclaimed Joanna Brady series (readers may also be familiar with her Seattle-based J.P. Beaumont series). Brady is no tough-talking V.I. Warshawski or Kat Colorado; her appeal lies in her willingness to admit that her Cochise County sheriff's uniform is often an uneasy fit. As the single mother of a young daughter, Brady is prey to the pain and loneliness that have resulted from her husband's...
8) Devil's claw
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Series
Joanna Brady mysteries volume 8
Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
[2001], c2000
Physical Desc
406 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
" Set against the backdrop of the modern west, this gripping tale finds Sheriff Brady juggling a precarious overload in both her personal and professional lives. About to be married, Joanna's facing a daughter turning twelve and going on twenty, a meddlesome mother micro-managing her wedding, and new in-laws arriving any day. The sudden death of her much-loved neighbor and handyman, Clayton Rhodes, creates further turmoil, leaving Joanna shocked,...
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Series
Joanna Brady mysteries volume 9
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2001
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
367 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
10) Partner in crime
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Series
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2002
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
370 p. 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Cochise County sheriff Joanna Brady reluctantly joins forces with J.P. Beaumont, a member of Washington State's Special Homicide Investigation team, when a promising African-American artist, supposedly under the protection of the government, is murdered shortly after moving to Bisbee, Arizona.
11) Exit wounds
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Series
Joanna Brady mysteries volume 11
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2003
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
368 p. : 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Juggling the demands of her career and her family, Southwestern Sheriff Joanna Brady faces her most unsettling case yet in the disturbing murder of a loner and her seventeen dogs.
12) Dead wrong
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Series
Joanna Brady mysteries volume 12
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2006
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
362 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
While Sheriff Joanna Brady is coping with the impending delivery of her second child as well as a staff shortage, she must investigate the brutal murder of an unidentified man and the attack of one of her own officers.
13) Damage control
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Series
Joanna Brady mysteries volume 13
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
374 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Cochise County sheriff Joanna Brady investigates the death of 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.
14) Fire and ice
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Series
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
338 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Seattle investigator J.P. Beaumont uncovers a surprising link between a series of Washington murders and the hit-and-run death of the elderly caretaker of an ATV park in Arizona, and is thrown together with sheriff Joanna Brady once more, and as the couple searches for the killer, the sparks that once flew between them are reignited.
15) Judgment call
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Series
Joanna Brady mysteries volume 15
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
387 p. ; 24 cm.
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. While investigating murders means discovering unpleasant facts, Joanna is not prepared for the knowledge she is about to uncover. Though she has tried to protect her children from the dangers...
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Series
Joanna Brady mysteries volume 16
Description
Sheriff Joanna Brady must solve two perplexing cases that may be tied together in New York Times bestselling author J. A. Jance's thrilling tale of suspense that brings to life Arizona's Cochise County and the desert Southwest in all its beauty and mystery.
An old woman, a hoarder, is dying of emphysema in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. In cleaning out her house, her daughter, Liza Machett, discovers a fortune in hundred dollar bills hidden in...
17) Downfall
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Series
Joanna Brady mysteries volume 17
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
383 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A puzzling new case has just hit Sheriff Joanna Brady's department, demanding every resource she has at her disposal--as well as help from neighboring law enforcement agencies and the Feds. The bodies of two women have been found at the base of a nearby peak, known to Bisbee locals as Geronimo. Is this a terrible accident, a case of murder/suicide, or a double homicide? The investigation takes a bewildering turn when Joanna discovers that one victim...
18) Field of Bones
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Series
Joanna Brady mysteries volume 18
Description
Sheriff Joanna Brady's best intentions to stay on maternity leave take a hit when a serial homicide case rocks Cochise County, dragging her into a far-reaching investigation to bring down a relentless killer in this chilling tale of suspense from New York Times bestselling author J. A. Jance.
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...
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Series
Joanna Brady mysteries volume 19
Publisher
HarperAudio
Pub. Date
2021
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Cochise County Sheriff Joanna Brady's professional and personal lives collide when her college-age daughter is involved in a missing persons case in this evocative and atmospheric mystery in J. A. Jance's New York Times bestselling suspense series, set in the beautiful desert country of the American Southwest.
When Jennifer Brady returns to Northern Arizona University for her sophomore year, she quickly becomes a big sister
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Series
Joanna Brady mysteries volume 20
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
335 pages : illustration ; 24 cm.
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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Butch Dixon has been taken for a ride. Not a jump in the car, see the sights kind of ride. He's been taken for everything he has. He's lost his house, his restaurant business, his savings, his car, his best friend, his faith--all to his conniving ex-wife. But that was seven years ago. He picked himself up, left Chicago, and started over in Peoria, Arizona, running the Roundhouse Bar and Grill. He doesn't look back on those bad years; there's no point....
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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,...