Left for Dead, J.A. Jance
Left for Dead, J.A. Jance
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Left for Dead

Author: J.A. Jance

Narrator: Karen Ziemba

Unabridged: 10 hr 26 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/07/2012


Synopsis

When violence from the drug wars with the Mexican cartels crosses the border into Arizona, and an old friend is murdered, Ali Reynolds steps in to investigate in New York Times bestselling author J.A. Jance’s fast-paced mystery.

When Santa Cruz county deputy sheriff Jose Reyes, one of Ali Reynolds’s classmates from the Arizona Police Academy, is gunned down and left to die, he is at first assumed to be an innocent victim of the drug wars escalating across the border. But the crime scene investigation shows there’s much more to it than that, and soon he and his pregnant wife, Teresa, are both under suspicion.

Ali owes Reyes a debt of gratitude for the help he gave her years earlier. When she’s summoned to his bedside at Mercy Medical Center in Tucson, it’s impossible for Ali to turn away. Upon arriving at the hospital, Ali finds her good friend, Sister Anselm, is there as well, working as a patient advocate on behalf of another seriously injured victim, an unidentified border crosser who was raped and savagely beaten.

As more bodies begin to pile up, Ali becomes determined to seek justice, even when it becomes impossible to know where the danger is coming from. Fast-paced, tension-filled, and intriguingly complex, Left for Dead is J.A. Jance at her riveting best.

About J.A. Jance

J.A. Jance is the New York Times bestselling author of the Ali Reynolds series, the J.P. Beaumont series, the Joanna Brady series, and the Walker Family series. Born in South Dakota and raised in Bisbee, Arizona, Jance lives with her husband in Seattle, Washington. Visit her online at JAJance.com. 


Reviews

Goodreads review by Anne (Booklady) on November 14, 2017

I enjoy reading J.A. Jance, especially her Ali Reynolds Series. But Left For Dead is not among my favorite novels in the series. Ali, girl, you really need to brush up on your skills you learned in the Academy if you're going to do some sleuthing. And the cops were a bit tunneled visioned in their i......more

Goodreads review by Jack on August 30, 2024

3 Stars. Good, but a little too much coincidence for me. Or did it just stand out this time? Thinking about coincidence, I find that many of our favourite genre use it as part of the plot. Is it because real-life detecting takes too much time for mystery and thriller novelists trying to hold our att......more

Goodreads review by Ellen on March 24, 2012

Jance's Ali Reynolds series has improved, but there are still some pretty unbelievable things going on. Ali Reynolds is a former newscaster whose station turned her in for a newer model. Her husband did the same thing. In the first few books, she wrote a ridiculous blog for women who were treated ba......more

Goodreads review by Skip on February 18, 2012

Pretty good thriller, although initially I was annoyed at having to turn back because there were too many names, subplots. Ali Reynolds and Sistem Anselm have their dinner reunion precluded by the near death of a call girl, who is abandoned in the borderlands. Jose Reyes, a policy academy buddy of A......more

Goodreads review by L Cherry on July 14, 2020

This was another great mystery for Ali Reynolds to solve! There are always multiple things happening at one time in this series. Ali Reynolds is such a tough, smart and sincere character, it is exciting to feel like you are jumping into danger with her in each story. I look forward to the next in th......more