Joanna Brady mysteries
1) Desert heat
A cop lies dying beneath the blistering Arizona sun—a local lawman who may well have become the next sheriff of Cochise County. The police brass claim that Andy Brady was dirty, and that his shooting was a suicide attempt. Joanna Brady, his devoted wife and mother of their nine-year-old daughter, knows a cover-up when she hears one . . . and murder when she sees it. But her determined efforts to hunt down an assassin and clear her husband's
...As newly elected Sheriff of Chochise County, Joanna Brady is faced with two murders, committed years apart, that are apparently hiding a prominent family's secret.
A vigilante killer is depositing his partially clad victims in the cool Arizona desert, terrifying even the most intrepid of area women.
Sheriff Brady becomes an assassin's target when investigating the murder of a motorist responsible for an earlier death.
Beautiful, teen-age Brianna O'Brien is murdered in Skeleton Canyon. But Brady finds evidence that clears the boyfriend, and points to a deeper web of crime.
When three murders, including a local gun dealer, take place, an anti-government rancher is accused. With another "Ruby Ridge" simmering, Brady sees a larger plot.
8) Devil's claw
10) Partner in crime
Rochelle Baxter, 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 Rochelle Baxter was a former Marine M.P.-living under a Washington State witness protection program. Outraged that his star witness in a private-prison corruption scandal has been rubbed out, the Washington State attorney
...11) Exit wounds
Juggling the demands of family with the challenges of a job that plunges her into the depths of human depravity, Joanna Brady has learned to expect the unexpected. Nothing the intrepid sheriff has experienced, however, can prepare her for her most unsettling and chilling case yet. As she probes the macabre death of a loner and her 17 dogs, Joanna will discover that secrets of the past can run deeper and darker than she's ever imagined.
Juggling a family and a career is never easy -- and it's becoming a real challenge for Sheriff Joanna Brady. Coping with the impending delivery of her second child as well as a staff shortage, the last thing Joanna needs are two serious crimes. First, the body of an unidentified man is found in the desert, all ten of his fingers savagely severed. Following the scant clues, Joanna learns that the victim was an ex-con who had served twenty years
...13) Damage control
14) Fire and ice
15) Judgment call
16) Partner in crime
Rochelle Baxter, 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 Rochelle Baxter was a former Marine M.P.-living under a Washington State witness protection program. Outraged that his star witness in a private-prison corruption scandal has been rubbed out, the Washington State attorney
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