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Title details for Tombstone Courage by J. A. Jance - Available

Tombstone Courage

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by J. A. Jance
Hillary Huber
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When drug dealers murdered her lawman husband, Joanna Brady vowed she would carry on his good work no matter what the cost. With grit, courage, and dogged determination, she challenged the status quo—and won. Now, as newly elected Sheriff of Cochise County, Arizona, she must battle the prejudice and hostility of a mistrustful, male-dominated police force and solve a grisly double homicide that threatens to tear the sleepy desert community to pieces. For the two bodies baking in the harsh Southwestern sun are connected by sinister threads that reach back generations—and by devastating family secrets of greed, hatred, and shocking abuse that could destroy the innocent along with the guilty.

  • Creators

  • Series

    Joanna Brady

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    November 17, 2009

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9780061953934
      • File size: 286920 KB
      • Duration: 09:57:44

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      May 30, 1994
      Introduced in Desert Heat , a paperback original, young Joanna Brady is a no-nonsense widow running for sheriff in the new wild West. In the gritty mining and ranching community of Bisbee, Ariz., Joanna hopes to take over the office held by her husband when he was killed by a drug dealer's hit man six weeks before. Holly Patterson, a tormented substance abuser, has returned with her lawyer and hypnotherapist to file an unsavory personal injury suit against her feisty, octogenarian father, Harold. Though he appears to be a decent man, Harold clearly has a secret, but it may not be the one Holly is suggesting. As Joanna faces a tough, and sexist, election campaign, she must also come to terms with her widowhood, her overbearing mother and the complicated reactions of her now fatherless nine-year-old daughter. Jance, who also writes the J. P. Beaumont mysteries, maintains generally deft control of her touchy, trendy material. While some of the cast seem stock and the ending is somewhat overwrought, Joanna is engaging and credible, and the novel's pace is unflagging.

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Hillary Huber warmly delivers the story of Joanna Brady's election as the first woman sheriff in Arizona. When Brady's husband, formerly the leading candidate, is murdered by Colombian drug lords, she decides she must run herself. But once she's elected, complications ensue: Her 9-year-old daughter is not thrilled with her new job, AND she must immediately solve two murders, one decades old and one recent. The story also involves family secrets, abuse, and greed. Huber's narration is so well done that she nearly disappears, leaving listeners totally involved in the mystery. She easily distinguishes the multigenerational characters. Both performance and story are thoroughly satisfying. S.C.A. (c) AudioFile 2010, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      April 3, 1995
      Newly elected sheriff of an Arizona town, sleuth Joanna Brady must solve the murder of a local cattle rancher while dealing with prejudice in a male-dominated police force.

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  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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  • English

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