Search - Dead to Rights (Joanna Brady, No 4)

This is the fourth book in the Joanna Brady series. It's not the best book in the series, but it's a good one.

One of the things I like about the Sheriff Brady books is that we are dealing with ordinary people in unusual but believable situations. It's not the like glitzy best-seller thrillers that are so popular, where all the characters are powerful, wealthy people dealing with extraordinarily amazing situations. Instead, we deal with the daily life of a hard-working, interesting lady sheriff in a small town but a big, lightly populated county. Murders happen, and she finds out how and why.

And the stories are interesting, even without anyone being a senator or movie star.

I highly recommend this series, and I think you'll enjoy this book. (Unless, of course, you are one of those folks that require senators and movie stars in your books....)

Anything with Sheriff Brady is worth your time.

This is, as usual, another really good book by Jance.

A novel of suspense. Unusual twists and turns to keep you reading.

GREAT BOOK!! ANOTHER FANTASTIC MYSTERY IN THE J.A.JANCE FASHION.

Love these characters, and this series.

I am hooked on J.A. Jance. This is an easy read. Follows the saga of Johanna Brady.

this is book 4 in the Joanna Brady series.

Excellent read! I love the Joanna Brady mystery series by Jance.

ANOTHER LIGHT MYSTERY WITH SHERIFF JOHANNA BRADY. IT'S PRETTY AMAZING THAT MANY PEOPLE DIE IN SUCH A SHORT PERIOD IN SUCH A SMALL TOWN! BUT A NICE LITTLE READ.

From back of book:

Joanna Brady--devoted mother and the first female Sheriff of Cochise County, Arizona--knows what it's like to lose one you love, and her heart still aches over the murder of her policeman husband. But her sympathy for a tragically widowed ex-cop has placed Joanna's future in jeopardy--and brought her face-to-face with death in the high, lonely desert.

On their nineteeth wedding anniversary, Hal Morgan's wife was fatally struck down by a drunk driver -- and the courts punished her killer with only a wrist-slap. A year to the day later the irresponsible motorist is murdered and all fingers are pointing to Morgan as the perpetrator--except Sheriff Brady's. But Joanna's gut instinct is leading her into a maelstrom of danger and deception, as she trails the truth from a ghostly mining camp to the rocky spires of the Ciiicahua National Monument. Because now an assassin is turning his sights on her.

Joanna Brady---devoted mother and the first female Sheriff of Chchise County, Arizona---knows what its like to lose one you love, and her heart still aches over the murder of her policeman husband. But her sympathy for a tragically widowed ex-cop has placed Joanna's future in jeopardy---and brought her face to face with death in the high, lonely desert.
On their nineteenth wedding anniversary, Hal Morgan's wife was fatally struck down by a drunk driver---and the courts punished her killer with only a wrist slap. A year to the day later the irresponsible motorist is murdered and all fingers are pointing to Morgan as the perpetrator---except Sheriff Bradys. But Joanna's gut instinct is leading her into a maelstrom of danger and deception, as she trails the truth from a ghostly mining camp to the rocky spires of the Chircahua Nathional Monument. Because now an assassin is turning his sights on her.

so so

From Publishers Weekly: "Cochise County, Ariz., sheriff Joanna Brady has her newly elected hands full in this fourth adventure. When veterinarian Amos Buckwalter is murdered by arson, deputies immediately suspect Hal Morgan, whose wife, Bonnie, was recently killed by a drunken Buckwalter in a car accident. Morgan, himself an ex-cop, had been picketing Buckwalter's animal hospital, handing out Mothers Against Drunk Driving literature just before the vet's body was found in a burning barn. Joanna doubts his guilt because she understands his grief, her own husband having been murdered not so long ago. Besides, the widow Buckwalter is strangely stoic, even getting a makeover and playing golf on the day after her husband's death. While Joanna locks horns with experienced detectives on the case, she must cope with her rebellious nine-year-old daughter, Jenny, a bossy mother, budget-cutting county supervisors and her aching loneliness. The unlikely sheriff (her husband had run for the office, and she entered the campaign only after his death) is an engaging heroine, vulnerable but determined to meet the challenges in her personal and public life. Jance skillfully ties the mystery to the southeastern Arizona landscape, its historic mining towns and their modern problems." Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.