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  • Credible Threat

    Ali Reynolds and her team at High Noon Enterprises must race against the clock to save an archbishop as he faces mysterious death threats in the next “devilish page-turner” (People) in the New York Times bestselling series by J.A. Jance....

  • Sins of the Fathers

    Seattle investigator J. P. Beaumont is drawn into an intriguing, and shockingly personal, case in this superb tale of suspense from New York Times bestselling author J. A. Jance.Former Seattle homicide cop, J. P. Beaumont, is learning to enjoy the ne...

  • Taking the Veil
  • The A List

    Ali Reynolds learns that no good deed goes unpunished. More than ten years after the abrupt end of her high-profile broadcasting career, Ali Reynolds has made a good life for herself in her hometown of Sedona, Arizona. She has a new house, a new h...

  • Field of Bones

    Sheriff Joanna Brady’s best intentions to stay on maternity leave take a hit when a serial homicide case rocks Cochise County, dragging her into a far-reaching investigation to bring down a relentless killer in this chilling tale of suspense from N...

  • Duel to the Death

    After taking down the man responsible for his best friend’s death, Stuart Ramey thinks the case is finally closed. That is, until Stu finds himself left with a multimillion dollar fortune in Bitcoin in a desperate bid by Frigg, a rogue A.I. program...

  • Proof of Life

    J. P. Beaumont’s latest investigation strikes too close to home in this riveting mystery from New York Times bestselling author J. A. Jance. Be careful what you wish for... Before he retired, J. P. Beaumont had looked forward to having his day...

  • Still Dead

    Since the disbanding of the Special Homicide Investigation Team, J. P. Beaumont’s biggest concern is pondering whether he and his wife Mel should finally get a dog. But one voicemail from his old friend Ralph Ames is about to change that. Through R...

  • Man Overboard

    In New York Times bestselling author J.A. Jance’s gripping new thriller, Man Overboard, two tech geniuses face off -- one intent on saving lives, the other on ending them. Cybersecurity expert Roger McGeary finally has his life back on track aft...




  • Downfall

    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...

  • Random Acts

    Sheriff Joanna Brady and investigator Ali Reynolds join forces to solve a crime that has hit dangerously close to home. Sheriff Joanna Brady has a lot on her plate -- she is up for re-election as sheriff, pregnant with her third child, and her eld...

  • Claw Back

    In New York Times bestselling author J.A. Jance’s latest thriller, Ali Reynolds faces her most controversial mystery yet, solving the murder of a man whose Ponzi scheme bankrupted hundreds of people, and left them seeking justice…or revenge. W...

  • No Honor Among Thieves

    For the first time ever, Ali Reynolds and Joanna Brady, New York Times bestselling author J.A. Jance’s popular series sleuths, join forces to solve a terrifying crime in this exclusive enovella that has everything you want in a thriller—page-turn...

  • Dance of the Bones

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    Prospector Amos Warren and Big Bad John Lassiter, his young protege, were as close as father and son until a violent argument tore them apart. The next day, Amos disappeared, never to be seen again. Years later, his bones were found in the desert. Al...

  • Stand Down

    Life has shifted for J. P. Beaumont. After a tragic accident that devastated and ultimately disbanded his Special Homicide Investigation Team, he accepts that he has left homicide detection behind at this point, but he has a lot of unanticipated free...

  • Cold Betrayal

    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 ...

  • A Last Goodbye

    New York Times bestselling author J.A. Jance brings her trademark breakneck pace to this fun and exciting e-novella, where fan favorite Ali Reynolds takes on double responsibilities as both sleuth and bride.Ali Reynolds is finally getting married to ...

  • The Old Blue Line

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    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 conni...

  • Remains of Innocence

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    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR J. A. JANCE'S THRILLING TALE OF SUSPENSE BRINGS TO LIFE ARIZONA'S COCHISE COUNTY AND THE DESERT SOUTHWEST IN ALL ITS BEAUTY, MYSTERY, AND DANGER While cleaning out the house of her deceased mother, who was a hoard...

  • Moving Target

    In this instant New York Times bestseller and high-stakes thriller Ali Reynolds spans continents to solve a cold case murder and to figure out who wants a young juvenile offender dead. EVEN GHOSTS CAN’T HIDE FOREVER. Lance Tucker, an incarcer...

  • Second Watch

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    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 ...

  • Ring In the Dead

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    J. P. Beaumont may be an old homicide hand now, but back when he was a rookie working with his first partner, Milton Gurkey--a.k.a. Pickles--things took a turn for the worse . . . One day, at the end of Beaumont and Pickles's shift, a stop at the ...

  • Deadly Stakes

    Former reporter Ali Reynolds finds herself working against the police to add up the clues that connect one frightened teenager, two dead bodies, and $300,000 . . . with the body count rising. Hired to investigate the grisly murder of a gold-diggin...

  • Judgment Call

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    New York Times bestselling author J. A. Jance brings back acclaimed sheriff Joanna Brady in an exciting and twisting mystery set against the beauty and isolation of the Arizona desert Judgment Call When Joanna Brady's daughter, Jenny, stumbles ...

  • Left for Dead

    Ali Reynolds investigates two shocking cases of victims brutally left for dead in New York Times bestselling J.A. Jance's latest mystery-thriller. When Santa Cruz County deputy sheriff Jose Reyes, Ali's classmate from the Arizona Police Academy, is g...

  • Betrayal of Trust

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    Seattle investigator J. P. Beaumont uncovers a dark and deadly conspiracy that reaches deep into the halls of state government, in this latest thriller from New York Times bestselling author J. A. Jance At first glance, the video appears to be sho...

  • The J. A. Jance Casebook

    EXPANDED EDITION – Three Additional Stories!Judith Ann Jance is a New York Times top-10 bestselling author of three mystery series featuring Sheriff Joanna Brady, Seattle homicide detective J. P. Beaumont, and former TV journalist Ali Reynolds, ...

  • Fatal Error

    An Internet lothario is murdered in cold blood. Police immediately focus their investigation on the victims whose broken hearts he left in his virtual wake. Can Ali Reynolds prove a former colleague's innocence before a remorseless killer decides it'...

  • Queen of the Night

    Every summer, the Queen of the Night flower blooms in the Arizona desert -- a sacred event commemorated throughout the Tohono O'odham Nation. But this year, one couple's celebration is prematurely destroyed by gunfire ... and the sole witness to the ...




  • Trial by Fire

    In the heat of the Arizona desert, a raging fire pushes temperatures to a deadly degree, and one woman is left to burn. Pulled naked and barely breathing from the fire, the victim has no idea who she is, let alone who would do this to her -- or why. ...

  • Fire and Ice

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    Seattle investigator J. P. Beaumont is working a series of murders in which six young women have been wrapped in tarps, doused with gasoline, and set on fire. Their charred remains have been scattered around various dump sites, creating a grisly patt...

  • Cruel Intent

    A cold-blooded murderer lures former newscaster All Reynolds into a chilling web of online romance -- and doom--in this exciting thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Hand of Evil Ex-television journalist All Reynolds just wants a b...

  • Damage Control

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    At first glance, it appears to be an accident ... A car carrying an elderly couple goes off the side of a mountain and tumbles into oblivion on a beautiful sunny day in the Coronado National Monument. A note pulled from the twisted wreckage sugges...

  • Hand of Evil

    The New York Times bestselling author of Web of Evil realizes every parent's worst nightmare in the latest heart-stopping thriller featuring All Reynolds, an ex-television journalist who is stalked by danger. With his hand trapped in the door of a...

  • Justice Denied

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    The murder of an ex-drug dealer ex-con--gunned down on his mother's doorstep--seems just another turf war fatality. Why then has Seattle homicide investigator J.P. Beaumont been instructed to keep this assignment hush-hush? Meanwhile, Beau's lover an...

  • Web of Evil

    The New York Times bestselling author of Edge of Evil is back with another masterful thriller featuring Ali Reynolds, an ex-television journalist who finds herself in a twisted web of mystery and murder. Fired from her dream job as a Los Angeles n...

  • Dead Wrong

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    Juggling a family and a career has never been easy for Cochise County Sheriff Joanna Brady. Now the impending birth of her second child only adds to her burden, especially when two brutal crimes fall under her jurisdiction. A corpse is discovered ...

  • The Case of the London Cabbie

    in Bark M For Murder

    Who let the dogs out? Evildoers beware! Four of mystery fiction's top storytellers are setting the hounds on your trail -- in an incomparable quartet of crime stories with a canine edge. Man's (and woman's) best friends take the lead in this pheno...

  • Highest, Best Use

    in Creature Cozies

    They're cute... they're cuddly... they're on the case. We all know that the most innocent-looking pets can commit a lot of unexpected mischief. But they can also have a talent for sniffing out two-legged troublemakers of a more dangerous kind. ...

  • Edge of Evil

    The end of her high-profile broadcasting career came too soon for TV journalist Alison Reynolds - bounced off the air by executives who wanted a "younger face." With a divorce from her cheating husband of ten years also pending, there is nothing keep...

  • Long Time Gone

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    Fifty years ago, when she was five, Sister Mary Katherine witnessed something terrible ... A former Seattle policeman now working for the Washington State Attorney's Special Homicide Investigation Team, J.P. Beaumont has been hand-picked to lead t...

  • Day of the Dead

    Thirty years ago, a local Papago girl was brutally murdered, her butchered body found stuffed into a large cooler left on the side of Highway 86. No one was ever charged for the crime. Few even cared. And no one suspected it was only the beginning...

  • Exit Wounds

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    The intense desert heat has brought a nightmare to a small corner of the Southwest. A body lies lifeless in an airless trailer, surrounded by seventeen others. It is a crime unspeakable in conception and execution -- a horror strangely connected to a...

  • Partner in Crime

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    The dead woman on a cold slab in the Arizona morgue was a talented artist recently arrived from the West Coast. The Washington State Attorney General's office thinks this investigation is too big for a small-town female law officer to handle, so they...

  • Paradise Lost

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    One late night in the Arizona wilderness, two young girls stumble across something they should not see. Now both will have to pay. The desecrated body of a missing Phoenix heiress lies naked, lifeless, and abandoned in the desolate beauty and lone...

  • Birds of Prey

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    The Statfire Breeze steams its way north toward the Gulf of Alaska, buffeted by crisp sea winds blowing down from the Arctic. Those on board are seeking peace, relaxation, adventure, escape. But there is no escape here in this place of unspoiled natu...

  • Devil's Claw

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    A piercing ill wind blows hot out of the silent Arizona desert. A Native American woman is dead - an ex-con once jailed for the murder of her husband - and her teenage daughter has vanished info the long shadows of the night-still canyons. A dedi...

  • Kiss of the Bees

    Twenty years ago, a darkness rose up out of the blistering heat of the Arizona desert and descended upon the Walker family of Tucson. A personified evil, a serial killer named Andrew Carlisle, brought blood and terror into their world, nearly murderi...

  • Outlaw Mountain

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    Alice Rogers, an elderly widow, is dead, found murdered in the Arizona desert. It's easy enough to pin the killing on the teens caught driving her car across the Mexican border, but Sheriff Brady isn't about to let it go at that. Alice was something ...




  • Father's Day

    in Fathers and Daughters

    Filled with stories, memoirs, and photographs celebrating the special relationship between father and daughter, this unique collection offers the contributions of Faye Kellerman, Eileen Goudge, Carole Nelson Douglas, J. A. Jance, and other notable au...

  • Breach of Duty

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    The Seattle that Beau knew as a young policeman is disappearing. The city is awash in the aromas emanating from a glut of coffee bars, the neighborhood outside his condo building has sprouted gallery upon gallery, and even his long cherished diner h...

  • Rattlesnake Crossing

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    Sheriff Joanna Brady is the law in Cochise County, and she will never allow her personal trials to interfere with the job she was elected to do - especially now that death has invaded Bisbee, Arizona, and has shattered the small desert town's fragile...

  • Skeleton Canyon

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    Brianna "Bree" O'Brien neverretumed from Skeleton Canyon. Someone brutally murdered the pretty, popular teenager who hadsfolen away undercover of darkness to rendezwus with herboyfriend, Ignacio Ybarra. Perhaps youthful rage, jealousy and savage pass...

  • Dead to Rights

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    A woman is cruelly cut down in a remote corner of Arizona, killed on her nineteenth wedding anniversary by a drunk motorist. A year later, the driver himself dies badly, and all suspicions point to the slain woman's still grieving husband as his mur...

  • Name Withheld

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    Nobody is grieving over the death of Donald Wolf, a biotechnology corporation executive whose numerous criminal activities included illegally trading industrial secrets...and rape. Too many people, in fact, are almost too eager to take responsibility...

  • Shoot/Don't Shoot

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    Newly elected Sheriff Joanna Brady, determined to learn her trade, enlists at a Phoenix-based police academy, but when a serial killer murders Joanna's female classmate, she sets off on a desperate hunt to find him. Reprint....

  • Lying in Wait

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    A Seattle fisherman has died badly—bound, tortured and set ablaze aboard his boat on the Puget Sound. And with his death comes disturbing questions . . . and the key to a Pandora's Box of evil that has remained tightly closed for over half a centur...

  • Tombstone Courage

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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 Coch...

  • Death of a Snowbird

    Originally appeared in : The Mysterious West, 1994. Re-printed in A Moment On the Edge: 100 Years of Crime Stories By Women, 2004. Collected in The J.A. Jance Casebook, 2005, available electronically....

  • Failure to Appear

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    J.P. Beaumont's teenaged daughter Kelly has run off--and her tracks have led the sober-but-struggling sleuth to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. But in addition to one very headstrong offspring, there is something else waiting for Beau backstage: a c...

  • Desert Heat

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    A DEPUTY SHERIFF LIES DYING BENEATH THE BLISTERING ARIZONA SUN -- BECAUSE HE AIMED TOO HIGH... AND KNEW TOO MUCH. Andy Brady was an honest lawman, a good husband and candidate for Sheriff of Cochise County -- until a bullet abruptly destroyed his fu...

  • Without Due Process

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    A maniac broke into the home of Officer Benjamin Harrison Weston--then brutally snuffed the model cop, his wife and his children. But five-year-old "Junior" Weston was hiding in a closet...and somehow avoided the psycho's bloody blade. Everyone lo...

  • Hour of the Hunter

    THE HUNTER IS FREE TO KILL AGAIN - AND HOUR BY HOUR, HE DRAWS CLOSER... The brilliant psychopath Andrew Carlisle spent only six years in prison for the brutal torture-murder of a young girl of the Tohono O'otham tribe. The testimony of Diana Ladd...

  • Payment in Kind

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    AN EDUCATION IN DEATH The bloody corpses stashed in the broom closet of the Seattle School District building were lovingly entwined. It looked like a classic crime of passion to Detective J.P Beaumont--especially when Pete Kelsey admitted that his...

  • Minor in Possession

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    A STIFF SHOT OF MURDER The Arizona alcohol rehab ranch was no picnic for J. P Beaumont. First they stuck him in a room with a sleazy, teenage drug dealer named Joey Rothman. Then they sicked the local law on him when the punk was discovered shot d...

  • Dismissed With Prejudice

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    THE MARK OF A CARELESS KILLER Tadeo Kurobashi loved poetry, studied Samurai history, and operated his own software company. When they found him dead on the floor with a Samurai sword by his hand, it looked like hara-kiri. Except for one thing. An ...

  • A More Perfect Union

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    A LESS THAN PERFECT CRIME The front-page photo was a gruesome heartstopper--a young woman plunging from a skeletal skyscraper, sheer horror frozen on her beautiful face. An accident? Suicide? Detective J.P. Beaumont didn't think so. Especially whe...

  • Improbable Cause

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    A NEW TWIST TO JUSTICE The dentist was sitting bolt upright. Mouth opened wide. Stone-cold dead. There was no lack of suspects--the brutalized wife, the pretty, sexually abused dental assistant, an ex-con who was a very intimate friend of the wido...

  • Taking the Fifth

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    "WE HAVE A BINGO" At first, the cops had little to go on -- a paycheck stub from Starlight Productions, a matchbook from the Edgewater Inn. Oh, and a body. Definitely male and decidedly dead, covered with strange little puncture wounds. Then they sh...

  • Trial by Fury

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    THE EVIL THAT MEN DO The body lay- amid the garbage behind a Seattle grocery store--a tall. well-built male--dead. Detective J.P Beaumont's twenty years on the force had given him a sixth sense about people--especially guilty ones. So when he foun...

  • Injustice for All

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    VENGEANCE IS MINE The blonde on the beach was screaming. A dead man lay at her feet. It didn't take Detective J.P. Beaumont long to find out that the man had been murdered, and that both the lady and the corpse were members of the State Parole Board...

  • Until Proven Guilty

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    SUFFER THE LITTLE CHILDREN The little girl was found murdered, her pink nightgown twisted around her throat. She was only five. The woman who came to the funeral to throw a single rose on the coffin was very much alive ...and beautiful. The kind of ...

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