J.A. JANCE

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For the first time ever, Ali Reynolds and Joanna Brady, New York Times bestselling author J.A. Jances popular series sleuths, join forces to solve a terrifying crime in this exclusive enovella that has everything you want in a thrillerpage-turning action, breathtaking twists and turns, edge-of-your-seat suspense, andLegos.A semis gone over the embankment. The call wakes Sheriff Joanna Brady in the middle of the night, but what brings her fully alert is the rest of the story. The driver didnt drift off to sleep and cross the center linehe was shot, multiple times, by someone with serious firepower. And when the truck crashed through the guardrail, its payload wound up scattered all over the roadboxes upon boxes of Legos.Legos that are being tracked by B. Simpsons security firm to reduce black market salesand Ali Reynolds is just the woman to get to the bottom of the crime. She has the tech and the intel to follow the money (or, in this case, the Legos), which makes her a valuable asset to Joannas team. Soon these two strong women realize that theyre not just sharing a case, theyre kindred spiritswhich is paramount, because the killer theyre up against is anything but childs play.

His throat was slit with the blade of a hunting knifeIn this short story from the thrilling anthology MatchUp, bestselling authors J.A. Jance and Eric Van Lustbaderalong with their popular series characters Ali Reynolds and Bravo Shawteam up for the first time ever.

In New York Times bestselling author J.A. Jances timely thriller, Ali Reynolds faces her most controversial mystery yet: the murder of a man whose Ponzi scheme bankrupted hundreds of people, and left them seeking justice...or revenge.When Alis parents lose their life savings to a Ponzi scheme, her father goes to confront his longtime friend and financial advisor, only to stumble upon the scene of a bloody double homicide. With her father suddenly a prime suspect, Ali and her husband work to clear his name and seek justice for her parents, as well as the rest of the schemes suddenly impoverished victims. But if Alis father is innocent, that can mean only one thing: one of the others is a stone cold killer.Publishers Weekly promises series fans will enjoy this highly personal case. Provocative and gripping, Clawback is further proof that no one writes suspenseful thrillers quite like J.A. Jance.

Ali Reynolds and her team at High Noon Enterprises must race against the clock to save an archbishop who faces mysterious death threats in this masterly study of the effects of grief, rage, and the power of forgiveness (Publishers Weekly) by New York Times bestselling author J.A. Jance.Years after her sons fatal overdose, grieving mother Rachel Higgins learns that his addiction may have grown out of damage suffered at the hands of a pedophile priest while he was in high school. Looking for vengeance, she targets the Catholic Churchs most visible local figure, Archbishop Francis Gillespie. When the archbishop begins receiving anonymous threats, local police dismiss them, saying theyre not credible. So he turns to his friends, Ali Reynolds and her husband, B. Simpson.With B. out of the country on a cybersecurity emergency, its up to Ali to track down the source of the threats. When a shooter assassinates the archbishops driver and leaves the priest himself severely injured, Ali forms an uneasy alliance with a Phoenix homicide cop in hopes of preventing another attack. But Ali doesnt realize that the killer has become not only more unhinged but also more determined to take out his or her target.Credible Threat is another terrific entry in a series distinguished by its consistent quality, [and] sensitive treatment of a difficult subject makes this an extraordinary literary experience (TheProvidence Journal).

In this heart-pounding and sharply written thriller from J.A. Jance, the grand master of the genre (The Providence Journal), Ali Reynoldss personal life is thrown into turmoil just as two men show up on the scenea former employee of her husbands who has just been released from prison and a serial killer who sets his sights a little too close to home. Mateo Vega, a one-time employee of Ali Reynolds husband, B. Simpson, has spent the last sixteen years of his life behind bars. According to the courts, he murdered his girlfriend. But Mateo knows that her real killer is still on the loose, and the first thing hes going to do when he gets a taste of freedom is track him down. After being granted parole, a wary Mateo approaches Stu Ramey of High Noon Enterprises for a reference letter for a job application, but to his surprise, Stu gives him one better: He asks him to come on board and work for B. once again. Just as Mateo starts his new job, though, chaos breaks out at High Noona deadbeat tenant who is in arrears has just fled, and tech expert Cami Lee has gone missing. As Ali races to both find a connection between the two disappearances and help Mateo clear his name with the help of PI J.P. Beaumont, tragedy strikes in her personal life, and with lives hanging in the balance, she must thread the needle between good and evil before its too late.

When an old friend is accused of murdering a cyber-sociopath who courted women over the Internet only to steal all of their money, Ali Reynolds steps in to investigateJances newest mystery is another New York Times bestseller!Ali Reynolds begins the summer thinking her most difficult challenge will be surviving a six-week-long course as the lone forty-something female at the Arizona Police Academynot to mention taking over the 6 a.m. shift at her familys restaurant while her parents enjoy a long overdue Caribbean cruise. However, when Brenda Riley, a colleague from Alis old news broadcasting days in California, shows up in town with an alcohol problem and an unlikely story about a missing fiance, Ali reluctantly agrees to help.The man posing as Brendas fiance is revealed to be Richard Lowensdale, a cyber-sociopath who has left a trail of broken hearts in his virtual wake. When he is viciously murdered, the women he once victimized are considered suspects. The police soon focus their investigation on Brenda, who is already known to have broken into Richards home and computer before vanishing without a trace. Attempting to clear her friends name, Ali is quickly drawn into a web of online intrigue that may lead to a real-world fatal error.

Three relentlessly suspenseful novels from New York Times bestselling author J. A. Jance.Trial by FireIn the heat of the Arizona desert, a raging fire pushes temperatures to a deadly degree, and one woman is left to burn. Pulled naked and barely breathing from the fire, the victim has no idea who she is, let alone who would do this to heror why. Then a savior appears. Sister Anselm is a devoted advocate for unidentified patients, but to Jane Does remorseless would-be killer, she poses a serious threat. Ali Reynolds, the police departments new media consultant, struggles to help Sister Anselm locate the missing relatives. But their efforts may be exposing the victim once more to danger. In the fearless pursuit of justice, Ali discovers a secret even darker and more twisted than she ever could have imagined.Fatal ErrorAli Reynolds begins the summer thinking her most difficult challenge will be surviving a six-week-long course as the lone forty-something female at the Arizona Police Academy. However, when Brenda Riley, a former colleague, shows up in town with an alcohol problem and an unlikely story about a missing fiance, Ali reluctantly agrees to help. But when the man posing as Brendas fiance is viciously murdered and the police focus their investigation on Brenda, Ali is quickly drawn into a web of online intrigue that may lead to a real-world fatal error.Left for DeadWhen one of Alis former Arizona Police Academy classmates is gunned down and left to die, he is at first assumed to be an innocent victim of the violent drug cartels. But the crime scene investigation reveals theres much more to the story. Summoned to his hospital bedside, Ali meets another seriously injured victiman unidentified young woman, presumed to be an illegal border crosser, who was raped and savagely beaten. Ali is determined to seek justice in both cases. But as she zeroes in on the truth, the real killer is lining her up in the crosshairs

Web of EvilFired from her dream job as a Los Angeles new anchor and still recovering from the truth about her cheating husband, Ali is content to lick her wounds far away in Sedona, Arizona. But before she can leave the past behind, she must return to L.A.: her ex, Paul, is in a hurry for a divorce so he can marry his very young, very pregnant fiancee. But the day before the final proceedings, Pauls bound and broken body is found in the Palm Springs desert. Ali finds herself the sole heir to his wealthy estateand the prime suspect in his brutal murder. As the evidence piles up against her, she must navigate a torturous path strewn with dangerand bodiesto expose the real cold-blooded thriller.Hand of EvilAli Reynolds is grieving. The newscasting job she once delighted in is gone and so is the philandering husband she loved and thought she knew. When a member of the family who gave Ali a generous scholarship for her education decades earlier suddenly asks her for a meeting, Ali wonders what it can mean. Before she can satisfy her curiosity, though, Ali receives another startling call: a friends teenage daughter has disappeared. Ali offers to help, but in doing so, she unknowingly begins a quest that will reveal a deadly ring of secrets, at the center of which stand two undiscriminating killersCruel IntentExtelevision journalist Ali Reynolds just wants a break from excitement to remodel her new home. But when the savagely murdered body of stay-at-home mom Morgan Forester is found, Alis contractor Bryan is the prime suspect. Bryan swears he has nothing to do with his wifes murderbut as the investigation progresses, Ali seems to be the only person who believes him. Determined to prove Bryans innocence, she logs onto singleatheart.com, a dating site for "married singles," and unknowingly lands herself directly in the path of a calculating killer.

In this heart-stopping (Publishers Weekly) page-turner from New York Times bestselling author J.A. Jance, Ali Reynolds finds herself working against the police to clear two innocent names.Former reporter Ali Reynolds finds herself working against the police to add up the clues that connect one frightened teenager, two dead bodies, and $300,000...with the body count rising.Hired to investigate the grisly murder of a gold-digging divorcee on behalf of the woman accused of the crime, Ali Reynolds is immediately drawn to the case of the secretive teenager who found the body. A. J. Sanders was in the Camp Verde desert to retrieve a mystery box buried by his absent fathera box that turns out to be filled with hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of poker chips. When a second body is found in the desert, it seems the three cases are more closely related than anyone could have imagined. Though Alis friends in the police department grow increasingly irritated by her involvement, Ali must stop a ruthless killer from claiming another victim...before she is lost in this game of deadly stakes.

In this timely devilish page-turner (People) from New York Times bestselling author J.A. Jance, Ali Reynolds learns that no good deed goes unpunished.More than ten years after the sudden end of her high-profile broadcasting career, Ali Reynolds has made a good life for herself in her hometown of Sedona, Arizona. She has a new house, a new husband, and a flourishing cybersecurity company where her team of veritable technological wizards hunts down criminals one case at a time. But the death of an old friend brings Ali back to the last story she ever reported: a feel-good human interest piece about a young man in need of a kidney to save his life, which quickly spiraled into a medical mismanagement scandal that landed a prestigious local doctor in prison for murder. Years may have passed, but Dr. Edward Gilchrist has not forgotten those responsible for his downfallespecially not Ali Reynolds, who exposed his dirty deeds to the world. Life without parole wont stop him from getting his revenge. Tattooed on his arm are the initials of those who put him behind bars, and he wont stop until every person on that Annihilation List is dead in this white-knuckled thriller in which the pace heats up, the body count rises, and violent surprises lurk in every chapter (The Seattle Times).

An enovella boxed set of No Honor Among Thieves and A Last Goodbye from New York Times bestselling author J.A. Jance. This boxed set also includes an excerpt of Jances novel Man Overboard.A Last Goodbye:New York Times bestselling author J.A. Jance brings her trademark breakneck pace to this fun and exciting e-novella, where fan favorite Ali Reynolds takes on double responsibilities as both sleuth and bride. Ali Reynolds is finally getting married to her longtime love B. Simpson. They wanted a simple Christmas Eve wedding, but nothing is ever simple with Ali. Even as a motley crew of her friendsLeland Brooks, Sister Anselm, and othersdescend on Vegas, the bride-to-be finds herself juggling last-minute wedding plans and a mystery in the form of a stray miniature dachshund. Alis grandson rescues the little dog, but Alis not in the market for a new pet right before her honeymoon and leaves no stone unturned in hunting for the dogs owner. But what she finds is more than just a shaggy dog storyBellas elderly owner has vanished, and her son seems to be behind it. So its Ali and B. to the rescueand still making it to the church on time!No Honor Among Thieves: For the first time ever, Ali Reynolds and Joanna Brady, New York Times bestselling author J.A. Jances popular series sleuths, join forces to solve a terrifying crime in this exclusive enovella that has everything you want in a thrillerpage-turning action, breathtaking twists and turns, edge-of-your-seat suspense, andLegos. A semis gone over the embankment. The call wakes Sheriff Joanna Brady in the middle of the night, but what brings her fully alert is the rest of the story. The driver didnt drift off to sleep and cross the center linehe was shot, multiple times, by someone with serious firepower. And when the truck crashed through the guardrail, its payload wound up scattered all over the roadboxes upon boxes of LEGOs. These LEGOs are being tracked by B. Simpsons security firm to reduce black market salesand Ali Reynolds is just the woman to get to the bottom of the crime. She has the tech and the intel to follow the money (or, in this case, the LEGOs), which makes her a valuable asset to Joannas team. Soon these two strong women realize that theyre not just sharing a case, theyre kindred spiritswhich is paramount, because the killer theyre up against is anything but childs play.

Ali Reynolds returns in this suspenseful thriller featuring New York Times bestselling author J.A. Jances signature fast pacing, surprising plot twists, and a strong, principled heroine (Booklist).Cybersecurity expert Roger McGeary finally has his life back on track after years of struggling with depression. But when he falls from the balcony of his suite on an all-expenses-paid cruise, the police quickly dismiss it as an accident. Unsatisfied, Rogers tough-as-nails aunt, Julia Miller, is determined to find answers and closure. By contacting Rogers childhood friend Stuart Ramey to help her solve the mystery of his fate, Julia unwittingly sets up a collision course with a serial killer. Stuart, his sidekick Cami Lee, and journalist-turned-amateur-sleuth Ali Reynolds put the full resources of cutting edge online security firm High Noon Enterprises into learning the truth about Rogers death. With Cami on the high seas investigating the ship from which Roger disappeared, Stuart stays tied to his computer, locked in a battle of wits and technology against an unusually twisted adversary. When the heartless killer sets sights on Stuart, High Noon must race against time to save him and countless others.

Ali Reynolds and High Noon Enterprises face the dangerous consequences of one mans desperate search for revenge in this unputdownable thriller from J.A. Jance, the New York Times bestselling author who has been delivering must-read books for a long time (The Real Book Spy).After spending twenty years behind bars, Frank Muñoz, a disgraced former cop, is out on parole and focused on just one thing: revenge. The wife who abandoned him after his arrest, the mistress who ratted him out for abetting a money-laundering scheme, the detectives who presided over his case all those years agothey all have targets on their backs. For Ali Reynolds, the first Christmas without her father is riddled with grief and uncertainty. And with her husband and founding partner of High Noon Enterprises, B. Simpson, preoccupied by an upcoming New Years trip to London, she is ready for a break. But when Stu Ramey barges into her home with grave news about a seriousand suspiciousaccident on the highway to Phoenix involving B.s car, things reach a breaking point. At the hospital, a groggy, post-op B. insists that Ali take his place at a ransomware conference in London, as troubles brimming around High Noon come to light. But questions remain: Who would go to such lengths to cut the tech company from the picture? And what if Ali and the rest of the team are also in danger?

New York Times bestselling author J.A. Jance brings her trademark breakneck pace to this fun and exciting e-novella, where fan favorite Ali Reynolds takes on double responsibilities as both sleuth and bride.Ali Reynolds is finally getting married to her longtime love B. Simpson. They wanted a simple Christmas Eve wedding, but nothing is ever simple with Ali. Even as a motley crew of her friendsLeland Brooks, Sister Anselm, and othersdescend on Vegas, the bride-to-be finds herself juggling last-minute wedding plans and a mystery in the form of a stray miniature dachshund. Alis grandson rescues the little dog, but Alis not in the market for a new pet right before her honeymoon, and leaves no stone unturned in hunting for the dogs owner. But what she finds is more than just a shaggy dog storyBellas elderly owner has vanished, and her son seems to be behind it. So its Ali and B. to the rescueand still making it to the church on time!

New York Times bestselling author J.A. Jance returns with her compellingsatisfying (USA TODAY) third novel in the gripping suspense series featuring ex-television journalist Ali Reynolds.With his hand trapped in the door of a speeding car, a man struggles to remain upright as hes dragged along a deserted stretch of San Juan Road in Phoenixs South Mountain Preserve. Its the perfect place to drive a man to his graveliterally. Starting with a crime so gruesome even prowling coyotes keep their distance from the remains, a killer begins crisscrossing the Southwest on a spree of grisly murders. A hundred miles away, Ali Reynolds is grieving. The news-casting job she once delighted in is goneand so is the philandering husband she once loved and thought she knew. When a member of the family who gave Ali a generous scholarship decades earlier suddenly asks her for a meeting, Ali wonders what it can mean. Before she can satisfy her curiosity, though, Ali receives another startling call: a friends teenage daughter has disappeared. Ali offers to help. But in doing so, she unknowingly begins a quest that will reveal a deadly ring of secrets, at the center of which stand two undiscriminating killers.Hand of Evil is Jance at her best, weaving a masterful literary jigsaw puzzle (The Tennessean, Nashville) and story of suspense that travels over generations, exposing two very different women with the same horrifying secret. Will Ali become a victim herself, or will she escape from a deadly deceit that no amount of securityfinancial or emotionalcan cover up?

The New York Times bestselling author brings back the Walker family in a multilayered thriller in which murders past and present connect the lives of three families. Every summer, in an event that is commemorated throughout the Tohono Oodham Nation, the Queen of the Night flower blooms in the Arizona desert. But one couples intended celebration is shattered by gunfire, the sole witness to the bloodshed a little girl who has lost the only family shes ever known. To her rescue come Dr. Lani Walker, who sees the trauma of her own childhood reflected in her young patient, and Dan Pardee, an Iraq war veteran and member of an unorthodox border patrol unit called the Shadow Wolves. Joined by Pima County homicide investigator Brian Fellows, they must keep the child safe while tracking down a ruthless killer.In a second case, retired homicide detective Brandon Walker is investigating the long unsolved murder of an Arizona State University coed. Now, after nearly half a century of silence, the one person who can shed light on that terrible incident is willing to talk. Meanwhile, Walkers wife, Diana Ladd, is reliving memories of a man whose death continues to haunt her. As these crimes threaten to tear apart three separate families, the stories and traditions of the Tohono Oodham people remain just beneath the surface of the desert, providing illumination to events of both self-sacrifice and unspeakable evil.

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. Jances fast-paced mystery.When Santa Cruz county deputy sheriff Jose Reyes, one of Ali Reynoldss 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 theres 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 shes summoned to his bedside at Mercy Medical Center in Tucson, its 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.

In this "gripping" (South Florida Sun-Sentinel) thriller in Jances New York Times bestselling Ali Reynolds series, Alis soon-to-be-ex-husband turns up dead under mysterious circumstances, and Ali soon finds herself in a twisted web of mystery and murder.The highway from Los Angeles to the Palm Springs desert is parched, unforgiving, and deadly. In the suffocating stillness of a car trunk, a manhis mouth and hands bound with tapewaits to learn his fate. Fortunately for him, hell never know. What possible enemy could be bitter enough to commit such a heinous crime? And when will the monster make another move?Ali Reynolds is traveling that same blistering, lonesome highway, looking forward to putting her past behind her. Shed left Los Angeles for the home comforts of Sedona, Arizona. But her cheating husband is in a hurry for a divorce; his very young and very pregnant fiancee has a wedding planned for the next day. And the television network that wrongfully dismissed Ali for the sole sin of being over forty will face her in court as well. So, Ali must return to the scene of those crimes. As she passes the site of a horrifying accident, shes thankful its no longer her job to report the news. Until she finds out the news is her own: the victim is Alis husband, and soon shell find herself the prime suspect at the center of a terrifying web of evil.