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Carl's list on the best mystery novels about the american southwest
There are 21 books in the Joanna Brady Mysteries series. The newest book is The Girl from Devil's Lake .
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Tombstone Courage
Tombstone Courage
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Shoot Don't Shoot
Shoot Don't Shoot
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Dead to Rights
Dead to Rights
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Skeleton Canyon
Skeleton Canyon
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Rattlesnake Crossing
Rattlesnake Crossing
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Outlaw Mountain
Outlaw Mountain
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…
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Devil's Claw
Once again, J.A. Jance delivers a gritty, deftly written thriller that unfolds on a vivid landscape of raw beauty and unrelenting danger. And, as always, Sheriff Joanna Brady brings the setting to life with the sensitivity, spirit, and intense passion for justice that makes Jance novels ring with authenticity.
In…
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Paradise Lost
For the first time, critically acclaimed, New York Times bestselling suspense master J.A. Jance brings together her two most beloved creations: Arizona sheriff Joanna Brady and Seattle investigator J.P. Beaumont.
The dead woman on a cold slab in the Arizona morgue was a talented artist recently arrived from the West…
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Exit Wounds
Exit Wounds
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Dead Wrong
A suspenseful mystery with heart featuring Sheriff Joanna Brady, from New York Times bestselling author J. A. Jance.
Juggling a family and a career has never been easy for Sheriff Joanna Brady. The last thing she needs are two serious crimes in the same week.
One of her deputies has…
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Damage Control
Arizona sheriff Joanna Brady confronts two complex cases in this dazzling novel of suspense from New York Times bestselling author J. A. Jance
Back at home, Sheriff Joanna Brady has a newborn, a teenage daughter, a writer husband, and a difficult mother to deal with. But in the field, it…
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Fire and Ice
New York Times bestselling author J.A. Jance brings her two best-loved series characters together as Beaumont and Brady investigate a pair of cases that cross state lines
Seattle investigator J.P. Beaumont is working a series of murders in which six young women have been wrapped in tarps, doused with gasoline…
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Judgment Call
The New York Times bestselling master of mystery and suspense, J.A. Jance—whom the Chattanooga Times ranks “among the best, if not the best”—brings back her enormously popular series protagonist, Cochise County Sheriff Joanna Brady.
With Judgment Call, Jance achieves a new high in crime fiction, as Brady wrestles with her…
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Remains of Innocence
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Downfall
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Field of Bones
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…
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Missing and Endangered
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…
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Blessing of the Lost Girls
From J. A. Jance's New York Times bestselling Brady and Walker novels, federal investigator Dan Pardee, Brandon Walker's son-in-law, crosses paths with Sheriff Joanna Brady as he traces the bloody path of a merciless serial killer across the Southwest in this intense thriller.
Driven by a compulsion that challenges his…