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Joanna Brady mysteries volume 1
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Life is good for Joanna Brady. She has Jenny, her nine-year-old daughter, and solid, honest, and loving husband, Andy, a local lawman who's running for Sheriff of Cochise County. But her good life explodes when a bullet destroys Andy Brady's future and leaves him dying beneath the blistering Arizona sun. The police brass claim that Andy was dirty and that the shooting was a suicide attempt. Joanna knows a cover-up when she hears one...and murder when...
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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 5
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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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c1999
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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 who...
10) Outlaw mountain
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Joanna Brady mysteries volume 7
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When an elderly but free-spirited widow is cruelly murdered and her body left in the desert, Sheriff Joanna Brady's investigation starts with the victim's greedy offspring and a mysterious live-in gentlemen, but soon extends to the murky waters of corruption in high places.
13) Paradise Lost
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Joanna Brady mysteries volume 9
Pub. Date
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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Joanna Brady mysteries volume 9
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[2001]
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Dora Matthews and Jennifer Brady, both thirteen, couldn't be less alike yet the luck of the draw has made them tentmates on a Girl Scout camping trip at Apache Pass. Dora is a wild child, a pregnant, fatherless waif with a missing junkie mother. Jenny is the innocent daughter of Joanna Brady, the sheriff of Cochise County, Arizona. In the cool blackness of the high desert night, they slip away at Dora's prodding. What they find on their unauthorized...
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Joanna Brady mysteries volume 11
Pub. Date
c2003
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IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 15
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A twisted and lethal drama is unfolding in this small corner of the southwestern desert as fear, hatred, and the evil at the core of one family's history come to a rapid boil beneath a merciless Arizona sun.
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Joanna Brady mysteries volume 11
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[2003]
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IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 15
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Sheriff Joanna Brady's investigation of a murder is complicated by a brutal reelection campaign.
17) Dead Wrong
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Joanna Brady mysteries volume 12
Pub. Date
2006
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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...
18) Dead wrong
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Joanna Brady mysteries volume 12
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[2006]
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Joanna Brady is nine months pregnant when the mutilated body of an unidentified man is found in the desert. Then, one of the Animal Control officers on a stakeout, is so severely beaten that her prospects for survival are uncertain. Soon Joanna's life becomes even more complicated when her in-laws arrive uninvited for the birth of their grandchild.
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Joanna Brady mysteries volume 12
Pub. Date
c2006
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Sheriff Joanna Brady has a full plate. Not only is she investigating the murder of an ex-con and trying to find out who beat one of her animal-control officers nearly to death, she is also spectacularly pregnant. The question isn't whether she will solve these two crimes, but whether she will do it before or after she gives birth to her second child. While most of the police force is focused on the case of the animal-control officer, it's the ex-con's...
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Joanna Brady mysteries volume 12
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[2006]
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As if juggling a family, including the impending birth of a second child, a career and a staff shortage at the Sheriff's office aren't enough, Sheriff Joanna Brady has to deal with two serious crimes. The first is the dead body of an ex-con who was found in the desert with all his fingers severed. The second is the brutal attack of one of her officers while on unauthorized stakeout. Being a sheriff is what she is and Joanna will stop at nothing to...