Rattlesnake Crossing, J. A. Jance
Rattlesnake Crossing, J. A. Jance
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Rattlesnake Crossing
A Joanna Brady Mystery

Author: J. A. Jance

Narrator: C. J. Critt

Unabridged: 12 hr 30 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 04/13/2010


Synopsis

Sheriff Joanna Brady is the law in Cochise County, and she will never allow her personal trials to interfere with the job she was elected to do—especially now that death has invaded Bisbee, Arizona, and has shattered the small desert town's fragile peace.A gun dealer has died violently, and his stock of high-powered weapons has been cleaned out. Suspicion falls upon rancher Alton Hosfield, an armed separatist at war with the federal government and the local law—with everyone, in fact, whom he perceives as a threat to his independent way of life.Joanna Brady suspects the solution is not so cut-and-dried—especially when the cold-blooded slaying is followed by a series of others, equally horrific and perplexing. At best, an incendiary ""Ruby Ridge"" situation is brewing. At worst, a maniacal serial killer has come to feed on her unsuspecting community. But Joanna's preoccupation with bringing a murderer to justice could take a terrible toll on her private life . . . and unravel threads of family, love, and responsibility that might never again be retied.

About J. A. Jance

Sometimes it is through necessity that the best experiences are born. Such is the career of author J. A. Jance, who after many years of wanting to become a writer, found her way to that end. However, it took a lot if sacrifice and detours before she finally became the writer she always wanted to be.

Upon being denied admittance into a creative writing class by a professor who thought women belonged at home or in teaching, she gave up and married a young man who aspired to be another Faulkner or Hemingway. The only similarities to those writers was his love for alcohol. He became a severe alcoholic and proclaimed to his wife, whom he knew wanted a writing career, that he would be the only writer in that family. She grew weary of his addiction, and divorced him just two years before he died at a very young age. Jance had been writing when he was away or asleep, but she now had to find a way to support her children as a single mother. She spent her days selling insurance and her nights writing......many times writing all night. After the disappointment of not having her first book published, her agent advised her that she might be best at writing fiction. She followed that advice, and has written 22 Detective Beaumont books, 17 Joanna Brady books, and 10 Ali Reynolds books. There were also four thrillers added to the body of work.

Jance says that one of the best parts of writing is hearing from fans that her books have helped many as they were going through illness, or were sitting with a loved one who was going through difficult times. She says........"it gratified me to know that by immersing themselves in my stories, people are able to set their own lives aside and live and walk in someone else's shoes. Jance feels that she is doing the best job that she can at the best job in the world.


Reviews

Joanna Brady is the sheriff of Cochise County in Arizona. She has a serial killer on the loose and her personal life is taking a turn. Can she find the killer and balance her personal life all at the same time? It is a good read of a lady sheriff who does not give up. Joanna has an eleven year old d......more

Goodreads review by Barbara

I am a J.A. Jance fan. This is novel #37. Joanna Brady is one of my favorite characters ~ This is #13 for me in a series of 18. Having read some of the more recent novels, I decided to go back and read earlier stories. Did like reading more on how Joanna and Butch got together. Also enjoy the recurr......more

Rookie sheriff Joanna Brady is challenged by the appearance in her county of a serial killer who scalps his victims. Also a naked female hitchhiker is luring truckers into robbery ambushes. Add in a missing arsenal from a gun shop. All this gives us a police procedural that holds the reader's attent......more