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Jance consistently writes wonderful stories! I like the books featuring Joanna Brady. It's been fun to watch Joanna's character develop throughout the series. She started out a housewife and mom who worked in an insurance office. When her husband is killed in the line of duty she sets out to find the killer. In the second book she is elected sheriff (sort of a sympathy vote, but still it gets her into position) and from then on, we see her develop into a seasoned police officer and confident administrator, but always struggling with the demands of motherhood and her place in the community. She seems REAL and she's the kind of person we'd all like to know and call our friend. At the end of every book I'm left anticipating the next!
Joanna Brady is a gutsy and very pregnant Sheriff, she has one thing after the other to tend to. A murdered man with his fingers cut off. The beating and near death of a close friend and
co-worker has Joanna on the warpath. The puzzle of past history of her father, his found journals and the knowledge of what that has to do with her current investigations are parts of the story line.
What a story, especially when it all comes together with the new found information that not only clears up some current events, but deals with a past case that has woven over the years to come to a head in this fast moving story. Joanna not only shoots the carjacker, but saves the day, just
as she finishes up her duty to her family and job.
Nice to read a book that doesn't have people jumping in and out of bed with each other. I appreciate the lack of vulgarities and excessive gory details -- proof that riveting stories can still be written without these "props".