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3) Devil's claw
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Language
English
Description
In the night-still canyons of the Arizona desert, a girl is on the run. Alone but for her beloved red-tailed hawk, she flees from the dark shadows of her young life, the horror she has witnessed and the terror that now stalks her.
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Language
English
Description
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.
5) Dead wrong
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Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
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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...
Author
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Rochelle Baxter was a promising artist, and now she's dead. But the worst part is that she was supposed to be under government protection. Arizona county Sheriff Joanna Brady resents having to work with a member of the state Special Homicide Investigation team, but when they uncover a deadly conspiracy of silence, trusting each other is all they have to stay alive.
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English
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When a wealthy widow is murdered, Sheriff and single mother, Joanna Brady has more than enough suspects, but as she tries to determine which one is the murderer, she discovers a tangled web of graft and corruption that goes straight to the heart of the local government. Caught between her friends and her foes, she makes her way through a minefield of conflicting loyalties to find a killer.
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English
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"A puzzling new case has just hit Sheriff Joanna Brady's department, demanding every resource she has at her disposal--as well as help from neighboring law enforcement agencies and the Feds. The bodies of two women have been found at the base of a nearby peak, known to Bisbee locals as Geronimo. Is this a terrible accident, a case of murder/suicide, or a double homicide? The investigation takes a bewildering turn when Joanna discovers that one victim...
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
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Description
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.
13) Judgment call
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Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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"When her daughter, Jenny, stumbles across the body of her high school principal, Cochise County Sheriff Joanna Brady's personal and professional worlds collide, putting her in the difficult middle ground between being an officer of the law and a mother. While investigating murders means discovering unpleasant facts, Joanna isn't prepared for the knowledge she's about to uncover. Though she's tried to protect her children from the dangers of the grown-up...
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English
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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
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2015, c2014.
Physical Desc
512 pages ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
"While cleaning out the house of her deceased mother, who was a hoarder, Liza Machett discovers a fortune in hundred-dollar bills hidden in the book stacks and magazines that crowd every corner. For Liza, a waitress, the money is a blessing--until an older man she's never met before warns her that she's in danger. Soon her mother's house is torched, Liza's apartment is broken into, and her elderly landlady is murdered. Terrified, Liza leaves Massachusetts...
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English
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When Jennifer Brady returns to Northern Arizona University for her sophomore year, she quickly becomes a big sister to her new roommate, Beth Rankin, a brilliant yet sheltered sixteen-year-old freshman. For a homeschooled Beth, college is her first taste of both freedom and unfettered access to the internet, and Jenny is concerned that she is too naive. With Beth at war with her parents, Jenny asks to invite Beth home for Christmas, and Sheriff Joanna...
18) Downfall
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Series
Publisher
Harper Audio
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
9 audio discs (11 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
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...