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Betrayal of Trust (2011)

JP Beaumont could be considered Seattle's Columbo. Not elegant, not a suave fellow (in the traditional sense), did not start out life with a silver spoon or pickle fork in his mouth. And he definitely is not someone who happily rides the political merry-go-round.All of this provides me an enjoyme...

Betrayal of Trust (2011) by J.A. Jance
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Second Watch LP: A J. P. Beaumont Novel (2013)

J.A. Jance has written a lot of book about J.P Beaumont; this is the 21st. He's grown older, and this time he has knee replacement surgery. An interesting way of handling a complex plot is to have Beau dream about people from his past--including a murder he never solved. This interesting plot twi...

Second Watch LP: A J. P. Beaumont Novel (2013) by J.A. Jance
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Second Watch (2013)

This is the 21st J.P. Beaumont book. Beau (as he is called) had a double knee replacement at the start of the book. After surgery, and on some powerful painkillers, Beau starts to have what he calls "dreams" in which he talks to dead people as if they are there in the hospital with him. The first...

Second Watch (2013) by J.A. Jance
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Fatal Error (2011)

This is another good Jance mystery. Ali Reynolds, after succeeding to pass the rigors of the Arizona Police Academy is laid off from her position as media relations officer due to budget cuts. Being bored, when Brenda, an acquaintance from her broadcasting days, shows up looking for help to fin...

Fatal Error (2011) by J.A. Jance
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Remains of Innocence Low Price CD: A Brady Novel of Suspense (2000)

#16 in the Joanna Brady series.Started off a bit slow but eventually got going and the had same flare as the others.Junior is found dead and at first everyone is wondering if its suicide or murder.In the other story, a woman finds thousands of dollars hidden in her mothers cookbooks after she is ...

Remains of Innocence Low Price CD: A Brady Novel of Suspense (2000) by J.A. Jance
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Ring in the Dead (2013)

This is a flashback book to a time when J. P. Beaumont was a rookie and paired with an old hand works off the books to clear him of suspected murder and an IA investigation. The episode is brought to life when the old partners daughter gives Beau the beginning of a memoir her father was writing b...

Ring in the Dead (2013) by J.A. Jance
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The Old Blue Line (2014)

This is the story of Butch and how he is framed for murder before meeting Joanna Brady. His ex wife took everything he had to run off with his accountant. She left him in debt to the IRS and penniless. When she is found dead years after the divorce, all clues lead to Butch. His grandmother is...

The Old Blue Line (2014) by J.A. Jance
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Desert Heat (1993)

The first book in the Joanna Brady series, we start off with Joanna waiting on their tenth anniversary for her husband to come home. The Cochise County Deputy—who is running for Sheriff—had special plans for them that night, but he’s hours late. Becoming worried, Joanna heads out in her car loo...

Desert Heat (1993) by J.A. Jance
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Naked Came the Phoenix (2001)

Another serial novel is out, this time written by female mystery authors. (Authoresses?)Remember Naked Came the Manatee? This is the same sort of deal: The thirteen chapters are each written by a different author in the tradition of that 1969 book, Naked Came the Stranger.Stranger was purportedly...

Naked Came the Phoenix (2001) by J.A. Jance
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Dead Wrong (2006)

The election is over and Cochise County Sheriff Joanna Brady was re-elected by a small margin. Now 9-1/2 months pregnant, she hasn’t slowed down much, although she is finally learning to delegate. Action and drama are provided and Joanna’s response to those who believe she shouldn’t or isn’t ca...

Dead Wrong (2006) by J.A. Jance
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Trial by Fury (1986)

Yeh - this book is the 3rd in the series and the 1st one where Detective J.P. Beaumont doesn't fall in love with a deranged female murderer. Someone else in the book does. If the reader has read future books in the series, this is the book where we find out how Beau's partner, Ron Peters, becom...

Trial by Fury (1986) by J.A. Jance
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Kiss of the Bees (2001)

#2 in the Diana Ladd & Brandon Walker series. The action takes place 20 years after that of Night of the Hunter(1991). Psychopath Andrew Carlisle has been imprisoned after his attack on Diana Ladd. As a cellmate he has managed to get Mitch Johnson, a murderer captured by then Sheriff Brandon Walk...

Kiss of the Bees (2001) by J.A. Jance
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Injustice for All (1990)

It was like a scene from a movie: the beautiful blond screaming on a Washington beach, a dead man lying at her feet; the dashing Homicide detective arriving to offer kindness and solace to the distressed lady. What it wasn't was a restful vacation for J.P. Beaumont. And now a murderous mix of pol...

Injustice for All (1990) by J.A. Jance
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Breach of Duty (1999)

J.P. Beaumont has always been one of my favorite detectives. J.P. was raised by a single mother who got pregnant at the age of seventeen. J.P’s grandfather, who was immersed in a religion that didn’t tolerate pregnancy before marriage, threw his daughter out of the house and forbade his wife to h...

Breach of Duty (1999) by J.A. Jance
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Name Withheld (1997)

Seattle Police homicide detective J.P. Beaumont is babysitting his best friend's daughters in his penthouse apartment on a sober New Year's Day when he is called to investigate a body floating in nearby Elliot Bay. The case draws Seattle's favorite detective into the cutting-edge world of biotech...

Name Withheld (1997) by J.A. Jance
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Exit Wounds (2004)

Sheriff Joanna Brady juggles crime & family in fine yarn...We'll admit we're big fans of JA Jance, having read every novel she's written, some two dozen to date. This tenth book (or so, depending if you count "Partner in Crime" featuring both her fictional stars) in the Sheriff Brady series sees ...

Exit Wounds (2004) by J.A. Jance
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Dead to Rights (1997)

I have mixed feelings about the fourth book in the Joanna Brady series. Since the book is older, (and I suspect few people will be looking at this review), I am just going to touch briefly on my thoughts.On a positive note, I found the plot in this novel to be much more involved than earlier one...

Dead to Rights (1997) by J.A. Jance
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Day of the Dead (2005)

I finished my latest audio book this morning on the way into work. It was my first book ever by J.A. Jance and is called, Day of the Dead. I didn't know this when I picked it off the library shelves but it is the third book in a mystery series involving an Indian reservation in Arizona. That happ...

Day of the Dead (2005) by J.A. Jance
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Tombstone Courage (1995)

In this second of the series, Joanna Brady is elected the first female sheriff of Cochise County, Arizona only a couple of months after her husband (who was running for sheriff) is brutally murdered by a drug-cartel hit man. At first her nine year old daughter Jenny is on-board with her mother b...

Tombstone Courage (1995) by J.A. Jance
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Without Due Process (1993)

Beau and Big Al get called to a familiar address when an officer down call goes out. Turns out it is to an address where a good friend of Big Al lives. Plus, the call came with a warning that families of cops would be shot. They get to a crowded, bloody scene where Ben, his wife and three childre...

Without Due Process (1993) by J.A. Jance
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Until Proven Guilty (1985)

Because I respect the opinion of two of my librarian friends who love J.A. Jance's J.P Beaumont Series, I decided it was time to give one a try. With 21 in the series I won't lack for reading if this proves a hit. Just as Beaumont says of his new partner, Peters "There's so much to learn before y...

Until Proven Guilty (1985) by J.A. Jance
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Edge of Evil (2005)

My friend Tess read this and having similar tastes, passed along the recommendation. This is also my first time reading J.A. Jance, so a new-to me author. Read as an audio book. Let's start with our heroine, Alison Reynolds. The story begins with her getting canned from her TV anchor position bec...

Edge of Evil (2005) by J.A. Jance
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Rattlesnake Crossing (1999)

Sheriff Joanna Brady is the law in Cochise County, and she will never allow her personal trials to interfere with the job she was elected to do—especially now that death has invaded Bisbee, Arizona, and has shattered the small desert town's fragile peace. A gun dealer has died violently, and his...

Rattlesnake Crossing (1999) by J.A. Jance
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Outlaw Mountain (2000)

If there was an easy straight-forward answer to the guilty party we wouldn’t have much of a story. But as with all of the books in this series, the path to the truth leads Sheriff Joanna Brady and her understaffed/overworked department in a number of directions and it’s interesting to see how the...

Outlaw Mountain (2000) by J.A. Jance
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Minor in Possession (1990)

Book number Eight in the J.P. Beaumont series by J.A. Jance - 3.5 stars. Beaumont is in an alcohol treatment facility in Wickenburg, AZ attempting to stop drinking for the benefit of his liver. Around the end of the first month of treatment Beaumont's roommate is murdered. Like most of Jance's wo...

Minor in Possession (1990) by J.A. Jance
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Partner in Crime (2003)

Her stars Beaumont & Brady united in Jance fan club Dream!Think how much fun it would be if Grafton's Kinsey Millhone went to visit Paretsky's V.I. Warshawski and they solved a crime together. Jance has done it with her two leading characters! After 15 Seattle-based (Jance's home) Detective-extra...

Partner in Crime (2003) by J.A. Jance
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Hour of the Hunter (1992)

The hunter is free to kill again -- and hour by hour, he draws closer . . .The brilliant psychopath Andrew Carlisle spent only six years in prison for the brutal torture–murder of a young girl of the Tohono O'otham tribe. The testimony of Diana Ladd -- a teacher on the reservation -- put Carlisle...

Hour of the Hunter (1992) by J.A. Jance
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Failure to Appear (1994)

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 ...

Failure to Appear (1994) by J.A. Jance
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Devil's Claw (2001)

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 betwe...

Devil's Claw (2001) by J.A. Jance
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Lying in Wait (1996)

A Seattle fisherman has died badly--bound, tortured and set ablaze aboard his boat on the Puget Sound. And with his death comes disturbing questions... and the key to a pandora's box of evil that has remained tightly closed for over half a century.Else Didriksen is no longer the beautiful, troubl...

Lying in Wait (1996) by J.A. Jance
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Shoot Don't Shoot (1996)

Set against Arizona's parched landscape, the new mystery starring Sheriff Joanna Brady delivers the breakneck plot, genuine characters and unceasing Brady style that Jance's readers have come to expect. When a peeping Tom serial killer stalks the campus of the Arizona Police Academy, Joanna is dr...

Shoot Don't Shoot (1996) by J.A. Jance
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Payment in Kind (2004)

Fun read with some unusual dynamics.Usually I am highly entertained by the Beaumont mysteries, and this case was no exception. The detective has to investigate a crime in a school that initially looks like a murder suicide. Soon enough things become complicated and we get a whodunit with plenty o...

Payment in Kind (2004) by J.A. Jance
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Web of Evil (2007)

The highway from Los Angeles to the Palm Springs desert is parched, unforgiving, and deadly. In the suffocating stillness of a car trunk, a man -- his mouth and hands bound with tape -- awaits his fate. What possible enemy could be bitter enough to commit such a heinous crime? And when will the m...

Web of Evil (2007) by J.A. Jance
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Improbable Cause (2005)

When a dentist is killed, Detective Beaumont discovers that the victim was a despicable character that society is well off without. And Beaumont soon begins to wonder about real justice as he unearths an unlikely bunch of vigilantes.

Improbable Cause (2005) by J.A. Jance
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No Honor Among Thieves: An Ali Reynolds Novella (Kindle Single)

After years of being married to a county sheriff, Butch Dixon had become accustomed to Joanna’s being summoned to some incident or another in the middle of the night. At first he had made it a point to get up with her and make sure that, wherever she was going, she’d at least have a cup of freshl...

No Honor Among Thieves: An Ali Reynolds Novella (Kindle Single) by J.A. Jance
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Left for Dead

He had given her his home number back then, and she still had it. Fortunately, it was April and daylight saving time in most of the rest of the country. With Arizona and California in the same time zone at this time of year, she doubted she was in any danger of waking him up.    &n...

Left for Dead by J.A. Jance
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Clawback

Now, driving in slow traffic, in the Cayenne, she checked them. Two were voice mail messages, one from Stu and the other from Dave Holman. The third was a text from B., giving her a street address on Camelback for her 3:00 p.m. appointment with Eugene Lowensdahl. She knew the number in the 3200 b...

Clawback by J.A. Jance
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TRIAL BY FIRE (2009)

“Have you ever heard of displaced persons?” Sister Anselm asked. “In conjunction with World War Two, or from some other war?” Ali asked. “World War Two,” Sister Anselm said. “I’ve heard about them,” Ali replied. “They were people set adr...

TRIAL BY FIRE (2009) by J.A. Jance
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A Last Goodbye

According to family legend and at least one photo, I learned to walk by clinging to the back of an immense farm dog named Nicky. As a first grader in Bisbee’s Greenway School, I found a stray puppy, an ugly little mixed-breed mutt, on the street after school. I took it home, telling my mother tha...

A Last Goodbye by J.A. Jance

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