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While Sheriff Joanna Brady is coping with the impending delivery of her second child as well as a staff shortage, two serious crimes are committed. The body of an unidentified man is found in the desert strangely mutilated. Then one of Joanna's officers is brutally attacked. Joanna will risk everything to see that the perpetrators of these crimes are brought to justice.

J. A. Jance presents the fourteenth novel in her Joanna Brady series. Set in the southeastern desert town of Bisbee, Arizona, Sheriff Brady looks forward to the birth of her second child and an upcoming wedding.

A woman is cruelly cut down in a remote corner of Arizona, killed on her nineteenth wedding anniversary by a drunk motorist. A year later, the driver himself dies badly, and all suspicions point to the slain woman's still-grieving husband as his murderer. But the truth is rarely black and white in the long Southwestern shadows, and one law officer is not rushing to condemn the tragic widower so quickly: Joanna Brady, Sheriff of Cochise County.

Sheriff Joanna Brady attempts to catch a serial killer who keeps the victims' scalps as souvenirs and uses a gun stolen from a slain arms dealer's collection as the weapon.

Cochise County sheriff Joanna Brady investigates the death of a handicapped woman who had wandered away from a care facility with a suspicious track record and the deaths of an elderly couple who were presumably consenting partners in a suicide pact.

A chilling story of deadly desire and cold murder from New York Times bestselling author J. A. Jance. A pretty, popular teenager never returned from her secret tryst in Skeleton Canyon. Perhaps it was youthful rage or savage passion that ripped the life from a child of privilege and abandoned her broken body to the cold Arizona night. Or maybe she stumbled onto something terrible, something too dangerous to know. Now dark secrets about a future hideously...

A breathtaking story of senseless, brutal death in a desolate terrain from New York Times bestselling author J. A. Jance. What kind of monster would savagely murder a 71-year-old and leave her battered corpse to rot in the Arizona desert? A crime so patently inhuman, it shocks even those who should be used to deathlike Joanna Brady, sheriff of Cochise County. But the slaying of a complex and truly uncommon senior is only one thread in a bloody tapestryas...

When her daughter, Jenny, stumbles across the body of her murdered high school principal, Cochise County Sheriff Joanna Brady's personal and professional worlds collide, putting her in the difficult middle between being officer of the law and a mother. While investigating murders often means discovering unpleasant facts and disquieting truths, the experienced Joanna isn't prepared for the knowledge she's about to uncover.

Sheriff Joanna Bradys 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 Sheriff Joanna Brady may expect to see her maternity leave through to completion, but the world has other plans when a serial homicide case surfaces...