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"Former Sheriff Brandon Walker is living the life of a reluctant retiree, but desperately misses his former career. When he is invited to join The Last Chance Club to review and attempt to solve long-cold cases, he little imagines the first case to cross his path will be the one he may have botched years ago when he was sheriff."--from NoveList.
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A prisoner languishes in a Phoenix jail cell, accused of killing his estranged wife. No one belives the man is innocent, except the new Sheriff of Cochise County, in town for a crash course in police training. Joanna Brady is out of her jursidiction--and possibly in over her head. For a human monster in on the prowl, hiding grisly evidence of his horrific crimes in the vast emptiness of the Arizona desert. And an impromptu investigation , with no...
4) Confessions
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In a case where everyone is a suspect, Sheriff Trace Callaghan's job is to solve Laura Swann Fletcher's murder, and solve it quickly.
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Cochise County sheriff Joanna Brady investigates the death of 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.
Arizona sheriff Joanna Brady must somehow find a way to balance her complicated home life with her even more difficult job, especially when she is called upon to solve two cases involving the deaths of...
6) Sycamore
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Out for a hike one scorching afternoon in Sycamore, Arizona, a newcomer to town stumbles across what appear to be human remains embedded in the wall of a dry desert ravine. As news of the discovery makes its way around town, Sycamore's longtime residents fear the bones may belong to Jess Winters, the teenage girl who disappeared suddenly some eighteen years earlier, an unsolved mystery that has soaked into the porous rock of the town and haunted it...
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Ninety years ago the Toomey brothers, along with twenty-five other men and four thousand head of cattle, vanished en route to Arizona. When writer and historian Dan Sheridan is invited to the missing brothers' ranch by its current owner, he jumps at the chance. The visit fits right in with his plan to solve the century-old mystery--but it turns out that his host isn't a fan of books, writers, or people who don't mind their own business...
9) Edge of evil
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With a divorce from her cheating husband of ten years pending and her high-profile broadcasting career abruptly ended by TV executives who wanted a "younger face," Alison Reynolds feels there's nothing keeping her in L.A. any longer. Summoned back home to Sedona, Arizona, by the death of a childhood friend, she seeks solace in the comforting rhythms of her parents' diner, the Sugarloaf Café, and launches an on-line blog as therapy for others who...
10) Exit wounds
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Joanna Brady mysteries volume 11
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"The heat is a killer in Cochise County, Arizona, with temperatures over 100 degrees. Juggling the demands of family with the challenges of a job that plunges the depths of human depravity, Sheriff 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...
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Walker family volume 4
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Every summer, in an event that is commemorated throughout the Tohono O'odham Nation, the Queen of the Night flower blooms in the Arizona desert. But this year, two crimes threaten to tear apart three separate families. In the first, a couple's intended celebration is shattered by gunfire, the only witness to the bloodshed a little girl. Dr. Lani Walker and Dan Pardee join forces with Pima County homicide investigator Brian Fellows to keep the child...
12) Partner in crime
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Cochise County sheriff Joanna Brady reluctantly joins forces with J.P. Beaumont, a member of Washington State's Special Homicide Investigation team, when a promising African-American artist, supposedly under the protection of the government, is murdered shortly after moving to Bisbee, Arizona.
13) Hand of evil
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With his hand trapped in the door of a speeding car, a man struggles to remain upright as he's dragged along a deserted Phoenix road. As his remains grow cold, the killer embarks on a grisly murder spree that takes him across the Southwest. A hundred miles away, Ali Reynolds is grieving -- both for the loss of her career and for the cheating husband she once thought she knew. When an old friend calls to claim a long-overdue favor, Ali finds new purpose...
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Alison Reynolds mysteries volume 2
Ali Reynolds mysteries volume 2
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Ali Reynolds mysteries volume 02
Ali Reynolds mysteries volume 2
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Ali Reynolds mysteries volume 02
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Hopping mad after her termination from a high-profile anchor job, Ali Reynolds returns to her Arizona hometown and vents her outrage on a personal blog, but when her estranged husband is found dead in Palm Springs, Ali finds herself accused of his murder.
15) Dead Wrong
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As if juggling a family, including the impending birth of a second child, a career and a staff shortage at the Sheriff's office aren't enough, Sheriff Joanna Brady has to deal with two serious crimes. The first is the dead body of an ex-con who was found in the desert with all his fingers severed. The second is the brutal attack of one of her officers while on unauthorized stakeout. Being a sheriff is what she is and Joanna will stop at nothing to...
16) Trial by fire
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In the heat of the Arizona desert, a raging fire pushes temperatures to a deadly degree, and one woman is left to burn. In her hospital bed she drifts in and out of consciousness, her only means of communicating a blink of the eye. And then an angel appears. Misguidedly known around town as the "Angel of Death," Sister Anselm has devoted her life to working as an advocate for unidentified patients. But to this Jane Doe's would-be killer, Sister Anselm's...
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The town of Lily, Arizona has its share of Old West history and mystery, including the Gilded Lily, a former theater and bawdy house. These days, it offers theatrical productions geared to tourists; but the recent discovery of a human skull among the props and costumes has shaken everyone up. Agent Jane Everett of the Krewe of Hunters, a special FBI unit of paranormal investigators, has been called in. Jane is an artist who creates images of the dead...
18) Devil's claw
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Joanna Brady mysteries volume 8
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Sheriff Joanna Brady's attention is pulled from the turmoil of her personal life when she receives a report that an Indian woman, recently released from prison, has been found murdered at Cochise Stronghold and that the victim's daughter, fifteen-year-old Lucy Ridder, is on the run.
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Police academy-trained former reporter Ali Reynolds is contacted to investigate the grisly murder of a gold-digging divorcee on behalf of a woman accused of the crime. Lynn Martinson is dating the dead woman's ex-husband, and she and her boyfriend Chip Ralston have been charged. Ali is simultaneously drawn to the case of A.J. Sanders, a frightened teen with secrets of his own. He's the first to find the body in the Camp Verde desert when he goes to...
20) Kiss of the bees
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Walker family volume 2
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Twenty years ago, a darkness rose up out of the blistering heat of the Arizona desert and descended upon the Walker family of Tucson. A personified evil, a serial killer named Andrew Carlisle, brought blood and terror into the Walkers' world, nearly murdering Diana Ladd Walker and her young son, Davy. Now much has changed. The family has grown larger. there's Lani, the beloved adopted daughter-a beautiful Native-American teenager "kissed by the bees"...
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