For the first time, critically acclaimed, New York Times bestselling suspense master J.A. Jance brings together her two most beloved creations: Arizona sheriff Joanna Brady and Seattle investigator J.P. Beaumont.

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

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One blizzardy New Mexico night, Posadas County Deputy Pasquale picks up a toddler scooting his Scamper along the shoulder of State 56. Yes, it's horrifying - a child apparently dumped out of a truck by his father. Nearly as horrifying is what unrolls while Christmas approaches after dad Darrell Fisher's arrest: a request arrives from the US Forest Service to locate a missing range tech and his unit last reported headed for nearby Stinkin' Springs,...

"Good cops have no use for coincidence When a driver slams his pickup truck-twice-into a tandem bike being ridden by Carlos Guzman and his fiancaee, Tasha, in Briones, California, it's more than a simple hit-and-run; the driver clearly intended to harm them. Undersheriff Estelle Reyes-Guzman gets the call with the news of her son's accident and wastes no time racing to his side. She is greeted by Police Captain Eddie Mitchell, formerly of Posadas...

Captures the story of the everyday life of an early settlement (Trinidad) in the Southern Rockies of Colorado. The stories, based on real actual events, are all inclusive to the territories that extended as far as Oklahoma, Kansas, New Mexico, Texas, and Arizona. From the Texas Longhorn Trailing Cowboys to the neutral strip cattle rustlers of Oklahoma, there is western suspense throughout the prairie grasslands, the canyon lands, and the Rocky Mountains....