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Desert Heat
Desert Heat | J. A. Jance
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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.
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Susanita
Desert Heat | J. A. Jance
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There was some definite #girlpower going on in this mystery. The main character refuses to believe that her husband died by suicide, and she decides to investigate the case herself. Along the way she gets help from some other strong willed women, some of whom are family and others who are strangers. #maymontage

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Perfect 👍🏻 2y
Eggs Excellent choice 😊❤️🥰 2y
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Susanita
Desert Heat | J. A. Jance
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1. Southeastern Arizona
2. Scotland
3. Rohan
#wondrouswednesday

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CSeydel
Desert Heat | J. A. Jance
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I don‘t know if this is allowed but I‘m changing my #bookspin pick from The Accidental Tourist to Desert Heat. Accidental Tourist was on my list because it is the May pick for a book club I‘ve been going to, but for various reasons I‘m not going this time, so I‘m substituting the book for a different club that I will be going to. Let me know if this is not okay 😬

TheAromaofBooks Sounds good to me!!! 2y
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RamblingRedhead84
Desert Heat | J. A. Jance
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cop lies dying beneath the blistering Arizona sun—a 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...

JA. Jance books do not disappoint. They are a mix of comedy, humor, intense situations sprinkled with sarcasm. This is the first book of her long series and very much worth the read. Always leaving you guessing until the end.

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saguarosally
Desert Heat | J. A. Jance
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There is a mention of the restaurant at the Spanish Trail motel in Tucson in this book. The book was first published in 1993. This is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to what the motel looks like now (or at least as of March 2016).

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saguarosally
Desert Heat | J. A. Jance
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#setinyourcity #readjanuary It's set in Cochise County, AZ in the early 1990s. I lived in that general area at the time. The descriptions of the terrain and the technology of those times is very familiar. @RealLifeReading

Tcip Everything is set in Cochise county because if it's a book about Arizona then it's a western or a Native American book mystery. It drives me batty. I just read an article in the New Times about how there is not a great Arizonan novel 8y
saguarosally @Tcip On the other hand, it makes it feel like home. There is more to Arizona but there are strong western and Native American roots. 8y
Tcip @saguarosally I feel what you are saying but I just wish there was a good solid novel by the way of someone like Junot Diaz or like a Hemingway. I guess if you are not from Flagstaff or Tucson you don't see a lot of the native or western roots. I spent nearly my whole life in the Phoenix area so it's hard to get into that spirit. 8y
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saguarosally @Tcip It would be interested to see more mainline classics (if that's the right phrase?) set in Arizona. I know it's different in the Phoenix area as I've lived here quite some time, but then again I sometimes just seek out the western spirit. 8y
Tcip @saguarosally hey man! Nothing wrong with that! 8y
RebL Waiting to Exhale is set in PHX. Have you read it? 8y
saguarosally @RebL Nope, got it on the TBR now! 8y
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