Judith A Jance

"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,...

Seattle homicide detective J.P. Beaumont met the screaming blonde on the beach, a dead man at her feet. It didn't take Beaumont long to find out the man was murdered. Both the lady and the corpse were members of the State Parole Board. The killer could be seeking personal justice for one of the Parole Board's fatal mistakes. The case was turning into a deadly mixture of politics and passion, a nightmare - one where an experienced cop might not be...

"A semi's gone over the embankment." The call wakes Sheriff Joanna Brady in the middle of the night but what brings her fully alert is the rest of the story. The driver didn't drift off to sleep and cross the center line, he was shot multiple times, by someone with serious firepower. And when the truck crashed through the guardrail, its payload wound up scattered all over the road, boxes upon boxes of Legos. Legos that are being tracked by B. Simpson's...

Butch Dixon has been taken for a ride Not a jump in the car, see the sights kind of ride. He's been taken for everything he has. He's lost his house, his restaurant business, his savings, his car, his best friend, his faith--all to his conniving ex-wife. But that was seven years ago. He picked himself up, left Chicago, and started over in Peoria, Arizona, running the Roundhouse Bar and Grill. He doesn't look back on those bad years; there's no point....