"Revenge isn't the only dish served cold... Ali Reynolds's longtime friend and Taser-carrying nun, Sister Anselm, rushes to the bedside of a young pregnant woman hospitalized for severe injuries after she was hit by a car on a deserted Arizona highway. The girl had been running away from The Family, a polygamous cult with no patience for those who try to leave its ranks. Meanwhile, married life agrees with Ali. But any hopes that she and her husband,...

Getting old is hell. J. P. Beaumont is finally taking some time off to have knee-replacement surgery. But instead of taking his mind off work, the operation plunges him into one of the most perplexing and mind-blowing mysteries he's ever faced. A series of dreams takes him back to his early days on the force with the Seattle PD, and then even earlier, to his days in Vietnam, reminding him of people and events he hasn't thought about in years. Are...

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.

Sheriff Joanna Brady struggles to make sense of the murder of Bree O'Brien, a young woman who died during what was supposed to be a romantic tryst in Skeleton Canyon with her boyfriend Ignacio, but while Bree's parents are certain Ignacio is the guilty party, Joanna senses there is something more behind the killing.

"Years ago, when J.P. Beaumont was a homicide detective with the Seattle PD, his partner, Sue Danielson, was murdered. Volatile and angry, Danielson's ex-husband came after her in her home and, with nowhere else to turn, Jared, Sue's teenage son, frantically called Beau for help. As Beau rushed to the scene, he urged Jared to grab his younger brother and flee the house. In the end, Beaumont's plea and Jared's quick action saved the two boys from their...

When drug dealers murdered her lawman husband, Joanna Brady vowed she would carry on his good work no matter what the cost. 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.

Seattle police detective J.P. Beaumont, on the search for a clever killer must cope with an excess of suspects, a vanished witness, and his own personal demons.