Search - Partner in Crime (Joanna Brady #10)

This brought both of my favorite series together. Even if it was for only one book. Jance did a wonderful job of keeping her characters true to her other books of them and finds a way of making them work together. They're both stubborn, and set in their ways of doing things. Beau is very clever and finds his own way around town while Joanna and her department wishes he'd just leave. They say opposites attract....

the dead woman was an artist recently arrived from washington st cruelly cut down in the early stages of a promising career now all that remains of Rochelle Baxter lies on a cold slab in the Cochise County morgue and sheriff joanna brady knows that murder has once again infected her small desert community but there is more to this homicide than initially meets the eye and more to the victim who died while supposedly under the conscientious protection of the goverment.

Two of Jance's recurring characters, Sheriff Joanna Brady and Special Investigator J. P. Beaumont, team up to solve the murder of a young woman in the witness protection program. Tense, well-written - this is a mystery that you won't solve until the very end. Good from cover to cover. Recommended!