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one rebounds from the previous book as far as I am concerned,

A single woman living alone with a pack of dogs is shot multiple times through the locked back door of her house.
Inside with her are her dogs, brought inside to be fed, In the Arizona July heat, not only does the woman die but the dogs trapped inside a modular home die from heat and dehydration.


Sheriff Joanna Brady's detectives discover that the woman was shot with ammunition manufactured in, the same ammunition used in Bisbee of that year to quell striking miners.
With no clues but old ammunition, they know they may have a struggle finding the killer, When two more women are found dead in neighboring New Mexico and shot with the same make of ancient ammunition, the case becomes twisted.
Could this be a serial killer on the move But why a woman locked inside her own home

As usual, the case takes its share of twists and turns.
And, as usual, there are outside complications in Sheriff Brady's life, This time, she's pregnant and running for reelection.

Another good story, A much better book than the previous one with Beaumont making an appearance can you tell I don't like him LOL

A lady down on her luck with way too many dogs is murdered in her own home and the dogs become collateral damage.
The Mossman family's secrets are going to be revealed but someone is trying to prevent that as more deaths occur.
A terrible car accident with UDA's has Joanna on the verge of losing her temper, She has more trouble brewing as the countdown to her reelection campaign for Sheriff is off and running with an opponent who likes to fight dirty.
To top it off, Joanna finds out she and Butch are going to be parents,

A good suspenseful story and Joanna really did a great job in pulling all the threads and tying up the case.
Like how she is adapting to her marriage and how it is changing some of her relationships for the better i.
e. Eleanor. Ready to read the next one! Highly recommended

Enough twists that I had no idea till close to the end what really happened.
As usual, highly, highly recommended, .STARS

Fast, Easy. Entertaining. Unmemorable.

This was my very first experience with Judith Ann J, A. Jance which in and of itself is remarkable given how prolific she is, According to Goodreads and other online sources she has authored overbodies of work which begs the question quantity over quality

Im leaning towards quantity over quality when it came to Exit Wounds.
Fast. Easy. Entertaining. Unmemorable.

The best parts of the book for me were the historical references, The first reference was related to the murder weapon, specifically the casings stamped with S for Springfield Massachusetts andfor.
Smith amp Wesson, based in Springfield, MA, is less than ten miles from my home and remains a major gun manufacturer in the USA today.


The second historical reference was the Bisbee Deportation, the illegal deportation of more than,striking mine workers IWWled strike, their supporters, and citizen bystanders by,vigilantes in Bisbee, AZ, the setting for this book.
Striking for better working conditions and pay, the striking workers were kidnapped and held at a local baseball park.
They were then loaded onto cattle cars and transportedmiles forhours through the desert without food or water.
The deportees were unloaded at Hermanas, New Mexico, without money or transportation, and warned not to return to Bisbee.


Evidently I missed this lesson in history class!

Short of that, I found the story fast, easy, entertaining, unremarkable and quickly forgotten!

Another book in my Covid Reading Series, I purchased this book years and years ago at a Friends of the Westfield MA Athenaeum book sale and promptly tucked it away in one of my many bookcases at home.
Fast forward to COVIDlibraries and book stores are closed or limited in hours or services so I turn to these forgotten treasures.
Right on the cover, this book says it is a “Novel of Suspense and Mystery, ” The only mystery I uncovered is the mystery of why this book was ever published, The book starts off good for a suspense story, A murder. But the Sheriff doesnt get her first clue in the case until page, The whole rest of the time shes involved in a bunch of meaningless subplots that dont add to the story, and are marginally resolved.
Finally, aboutpages from the end of the book, Jance realized that she had better wrap things up, so a whirlwind of activity unearths countless clues that lead to the actual killer, who commits suicide in an attempt to relieve the state budgetary problems that would have arisen from a long, drawn out trial.
Another well written book in this series! It was weird reading this one because I usually listen to the series, but seeing the characters names and knowing how they are really pronounced was interesting! This book has Joanna running around EVERYWHERE it felt like! She was dealing with a murder in her jurisdiction and those poor dogs!!! that may be connected to two murders in another area.
Then someone smuggling illegals into the country with no care for their lives, An inmate also dies. And on top of that, she has events to go to as sheriff and to make appearances with the election coming up! And did I mention a health thing too She definitely stayed busy!! I loved how it wasn't one thing going on.
It shows how police departments really work instead of only having to deal with one case at a time! Next please!! The prologue was a good opener and no hints given at all as to who or why for several chapters.


Joanna is the headstrong and focused lady sheriff of a southern Arizona town, She investigates three murders performed on the same day, I was mislead by events until the “ahhah” revelation surfaced more than threequarters into the book, There was one major plot with one aside plot that ended with vague assumptions, All in all, the major storyline was solidly finished,

It was refreshing to read about a character such as Joanna, Any personal drama was kept to a minimum and truetolife, Butch is her fussbudget author husband with too much time on his hands, But, I suppose the author planned it this way,



This was the first book Ive read by J, A. Jance and I enjoyed it and recommend it,
J. A. Jance's Joanna Brady series is fun, Joanna is smart and likable, Her daughter is written like an adolescent instead of being too adult, Her parents and those of her deceased first husband are wellrounded and interesting, and her second husband, Butch, is a joy.
He is maybe my favorite character, The mysteries aren't intricate or complex, they aren't shocking and scary, . . these books are a bit cozier, They are quieter. And they are quick, easy reads that are fun to read,

In Exit Wounds Sheriff Brady is busy investigating the murder of a solitary woman who hoards dogs.
She and alldogs are found dead in her trailer, And unfortunately at the same time she must find the driver of a van that crashed with close toillegal aliens aboard, killing many of them.
While figuring out that the dog hoarder was the victim of child sexual abuse, she finds that two reporters have also been murdered.
And, she is working through morning sickness! Like all the books in this series the stories come together and with the help of her deputies, Sheriff Brady solves the cases.


One of the best things that Jance does is to create a woman with all the problems that come with working and balancing family demands.
It seems that Sheriff Brady is always being torn between her daughter's activities, her husband's desire to see his wife, her mother's demands, and a crazy job that interrupts it all.
I find this tension completely believable and accurate which makes the books feel very real,


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sitelink instagram. com/kellyhunsa Really really loved this book, Just can't get enough of Joanna Brady, Love this sheriff. JA Jance is one gifted writer, Another great J. A. Jance booking featuring Detective Joanna Brady, I've yet to read one of these books about Detective Brady that I haven't enjoyed, This one starts off with a huge why would someone murder a poor loner of a woman that does her best to care for stray dogs.
The twisted tale begins with the slug being over eighty years old and two more unsolved cases match the ballistics.
Joanna has a serial killer on the loose in Cochise County, a life altering event in her personal life and is in the middle of her reelection campaign for sheriff.
  The plot just keeps on thickening,    Joanna Brady is the busiest woman on the planet! Eleven down, eight more to go! I like her more and more The heat is killer in Cochise County, Arizona and in the suffocating stillness of an airless trailer, a woman is lying dead, a bullet hole in her chest.
Who would murder a harmless loner and why did the killer use an eightyfiveyearold bullet, fired from the same weapon that slaughtered two other women

The slayings are as oppressive as the blistering heat for Sheriff Joanna Brady, who must shoulder the double burden of a brutal reelection campaign and major developments on the home front.
Joanna must now deal with the terrifying reality that now threatens everyone in her jurisdiction: a serial killer is in their midst.


As personal and professional pressure mounts, Sheriff Brady must pursue a sadistic murderer into the shadows of the past to get to the roots of a monstrous obsession.
. . and expose the permanent wounds of a crime far worse than homicide,

hoursminutes Really good story, as always! However, I did find an annoying error, which I hope was corrected in publications which followed the one I read.
More than once . . I believe a total of three times, if not four, . . the county in Arizona was misspelled, It's Mohave County. It may be the Mojave Desert, but the county is Mohave, I live there, so it bugged me, No big deal, certainly not important enough to interfere with my enjoyment of the story! I mean, I get it.
This book wasn't in any way BADLY written, it was just, . . boring. Of course, I come from a horror background, so perhaps there simply wasn't enough violent atrocities to hold my interest.
If you're looking for a quiet, somewhat romancey mystery, I guess this is for you, Of course, it didn't help that I grabbed Jance'sth book in a series, The story told here is ultimately a very sad story, one of incest and how it affects families and children.
And how certain cults can be used to cover it up and to even encourage it, While it is sad, I'm afraid it is not all that uncommon, It's just covered up and not talked a lot about, It is disturbing. And the subject of the book is something I found a bit disturbing, Very well written mystery. It deals with some painful topics to read about, . . animal "hoarding" and how often times the person who takes too many strays in has deep emotional problems stemming from an abused past.
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