Search - Outlaw Mountain (Joanna Brady, Bk 7)

In this early Joanna Brady mystery, Jance does her usual solid job. When an elderly woman is murdered and her body left in the desert, Brady must navigate through thickets of false suspects, greedy heirs, and territorial disputes among law enforcement agencies, while also juggling the needs of her youg daughter and a surprise proposal from the new man in her life.

Jance's Joanna Brady is a tough-as-nails-yet-sensitive-single-mother-due-to-tragic-circumnstances heroine. I've loved reading this series. Jance does some amazing plot twists and turns and interconnects. Very creative and a real page turner.

When an elderly widow is found dead in the Arizona desert, it's easy enough to pin the killing on the teens caught driving her car across the Mexican border. But Sherrif Brady isn't buying it. The victim was a free spirit with a lover twenty years her junior and enough money for her grown kids to fight over.

Another Joanna Brady book that rocks!