The heat is a killer in Cochise County, Arizona, and in the suffocating stillness of an airless trailer a woman is lying dead, a bullet hole in her chest. Why would someone murder a harmless longer with a soft spot for stray dogs?

Dora Matthews and Jennifer Brady, both thirteen, couldn't be less alike -- yet the luck of the draw has made them teammates at a Girl Scout Memorial Day weekend 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...

While investigating two separate cases, Sheriff Joanna Brady must discover if the death of a family friend whose body was found in a limestone cavern is linked to the discovery of a fortune in $100 bills hidden in the house of a hoarder.

In the night-still canyons of the Arizona desert, a girl is on the run. Alone but for her beloved red-tailed hawk, she flees from the dark shadows of her young life, the horror she has witnessed and the terror that now stalks her.

When an up-and-coming artist in Cochise County, Arizona, dies mysteriously the night before her first gallery opening gala, the fact that her death is probably a homicide isn't such a surprise to Sheriff Joanna Brady. But what does surprise her is learning that the artist was a former Marine M.P.--living under a Washington State witness protection program. Investigator J.P. Beaumont is sent to Arizona to ride herd on what the Washington State attorney...

A local gun dealer dies a violent deathe and his stock of high-powered weapons has been cleaned out. Suspicion falls on Alton Hosfield, a man at war with anyone whom he perceives to be a threat to his home, his family, his freedom and his isloation. Sheriff Brady suspects, however, that the solution is not so cut and dried.

"When her daughter, Jenny, stumbles across the 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 isn't prepared for the knowledge she's about to uncover. Though she's tried to protect her children from the dangers of the grown-up...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

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

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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

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"[Jance] continues to grow in her art.... It's no mystery why this writer is a hit."— Seattle Times

A premium edition reissue of the third electrifying Joanna Brady novel by New York Times bestselling author J. A. Jance.
A prisoner languishes in a Phoenix jail cell accused of slaying his estranged wife. No one believes the man is innocent, except the new female

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