Joanna Brady mysteries

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Jance, Judith A
 
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Series Volume:
1.
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5 stars
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Determined to clear her late husband Andy's name after police brass claim that his shooting death was the result of his involvement in drug running, Joanna Brady attempts to find Andy's killers
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2.
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When drug dealers murdered her lawman husband, Joanna Brady vowed she would carry on his good work no matter what the cost. With grit, courage, and dogged determination, she 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....

3.  Shoot/don't shoot

 
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4.
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Sheriff Brady becomes an assassin's target when investigating the murder of a motorist responsible for an earlier death.
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Series Volume:
5.
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4.3 stars
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In Arizona, two teenagers meet in secret because her Anglo father can't stand Hispanics. When the girl's murdered, her father accuses the boy, but Sheriff Joanna Brady thinks that's too simplistic.
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Series Volume:
6.
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5 stars
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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.
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Series Volume:
7.
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4.5 stars
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Series Volume:
8.
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4.5 stars
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In the night-still canyons of the Arizona desert, a girl's on the run. Alone but for her beloved red-tailed hawk, she flees from the dark shadows of her young life, the horror she's witnessed, and the terror that now stalks her.
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9.
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Series Volume:
10.
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4 stars
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Sent to Cochise County in Arizona by the Washington State attorney general to investigate the murder of a star witness, J.P. Beaumont teams up with Sheriff Joanna Brady and is surprised to find in her a savvy fellow detective.
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11.
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12.
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Series Volume:
13.
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2.5 stars
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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.
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Series Volume:
14.
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5 stars
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Big-city homicide detective J.P. Beaumont and small-town sheriff/mom Joanna Brady join forces once again to solve a case involving a series of murders--six young women wrapped in tarps, doused with gasoline, and set on fire; and one elderly caretaker run over and left to die.
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Series Volume:
15.
Average Rating:
3.5 stars
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Cochise County Sheriff Joanna Brady's personal and professional worlds collide when her daughter, Jenny, stumbles upon the dead body of her high school principal, and the search for justice leads to her own door, forcing her to face the possibility that her perfect daughter may not be what she seems.
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Series Volume:
16.
Average Rating:
3 stars
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An old woman, a hoarder, is dying of emphysema in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. In cleaning out her house, her daughter, Liza Machett, discovers a fortune in hundred dollar bills hidden in the tall stacks of books and magazines that crowd every corner. Tracing the money's origins will take Liza on a journey that will end in Cochise County, where Sheriff Joanna Brady is embroiled in a personal mystery of her own. A man she considers a family friend...
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Series Volume:
17.
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3 stars
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"Arizona sheriff Joanna Brady returns in this outstanding new mystery set in the beautiful desert country of the Southwest. With a baby on the way, sudden deaths in the family from which to recover, a re-election campaign looming, and a daughter heading off for college, Cochise County Sheriff Joanna Brady has her hands full when a puzzling new case hits her department, demanding every resource she has at her disposal. Two women have fallen to their...
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Series Volume:
18.
Average Rating:
4.1 stars
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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 in her beloved Cochise County. Rather than staying home with her newborn and losing herself in the cold cases to be found in her father's long unread diaries, Joanna instead finds herself overseeing a complex investigation involving multiple jurisdictions.
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Series Volume:
19.
Average Rating:
3.2 stars
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"Cochise County Sheriff Joanna Brady's professional and personal lives collide when her college-age daughter is involved in a missing persons case."--
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Series Volume:
20.
Average Rating:
3.3 stars
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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.
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3 stars
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"Sheriff Joanna Brady has a lot on her plate--she is up for re-election as sheriff, pregnant with her third child, and her eldest is packing up to leave for college. Then Joanna is woken in the middle of the night by a call reporting a motor vehicle accident. Her mother and stepfathers RV ran off the road at high speed and hit the pillar of an overpass. Something about the accident seems suspicious, though, and when Joanna gets a call from Ali Reynolds,...