Desert Heat
By (Author) J. a. Jance
HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Avon Books
1st September 2011
United States
General
Fiction
Thriller / suspense fiction
Crime and mystery fiction
FIC
Paperback
352
Width 118mm, Height 194mm, Spine 22mm
200g
A cop lies dying beneath the blistering Arizona suna local lawman who may well have become the next sheriff of Cochise County.The police brass claim that Andy Brady was dirty, and that his shooting was a suicide attempt. Joanna Brady, his devoted wife and mother of their nine-year-old daughter, knows a cover-up when she hears one . . . and murder when she sees it. But her determined efforts to hunt down an assassin and clear her husband's name are placing Joanna and her surviving family in harm's waybecause in the desert, the one thing more lethal than a rattler's bite . . . is the truth.
J. A. Jance is the New York Times bestselling author of the J. P. Beaumont series, the Joanna Brady series, the Ali Reynolds series, and five interrelated thrillers about the Walker Family as well as a volume of poetry. Born in South Dakota and brought up in Bisbee, Arizona, Jance lives with her husband in Seattle, Washington, and Tucson, Arizona.