J. A Jance

"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’s too naïve and rebellious for her own good. Her worries are well-founded because one day Beth vanishes,...

Juggling the demands of her career and her family, Southwestern Sheriff Joanna Brady faces her most unsettling case yet in the disturbing murder of a loner and her seventeen dogs.

While Sheriff Joanna Brady is coping with the impending delivery of her second child as well as a staff shortage, she must investigate the brutal murder of an unidentified man and the attack of one of her own officers.

Seattle investigator J.P. Beaumont uncovers a surprising link between a series of Washington murders and the hit-and-run death of the elderly caretaker of an ATV park in Arizona, and is thrown together with sheriff Joanna Brady once more, and as the couple searches for the killer, the sparks that once flew between them are reignited.