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43rd out of 187 books
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Exit Wounds (Joanna Brady #11)
by
J.A. Jance (Goodreads Author)
Top ten New York Times bestselling author J.A. Jance returns with a powerful tale that explores the darkest corners of human nature.
The heat is a killer in Cochise County, Arizona, with temperatures over 100 degrees. In the suffocating stillness of an airless trailer, a woman is lying dead, a bullet hole in her chest. Why someone would murder a harmless loner with a soft s...more
The heat is a killer in Cochise County, Arizona, with temperatures over 100 degrees. In the suffocating stillness of an airless trailer, a woman is lying dead, a bullet hole in her chest. Why someone would murder a harmless loner with a soft s...more
Paperback, 416 pages
Published
July 27th 2004
by Avon
(first published July 2nd 2003)
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I love J.A. Jance. Gary and I listened on CD's and were actually in the town of Bisbee, Arizona where her heroine resides as the Cochise County sheriff. I wanted to go in the sheriff's dept and ask for her, but I thought perhaps they'd think me crazy, because she isn't afterall, really the sheriff. We found all the backdrops in her books, the street names, the restaurants and it was very fun. The story is about sects of bigamists in Arizona and wasn't too complimentary, but interesting. Fortunat...more
Dec 19, 2007
Nathan
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Recommends it for:
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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 doesn’t get her first clue in the case until page 260. The whole rest of the time she’s involved in a bunch of meaningless subplots that don’t add to the story, and are marginally resolved. Finally, about 20 pages from the end of the book, Jance realized that she had be...more
Excellent story! Three dead women, two of which are reporters that were working on a cult (The Bretheren) story which involve young children. The third woman (Carol) was part of the cult years ago when she was a child and was saved from the hell that she lived every day and was ready to tell her story to make others aware. The women in this cult are worthless according to the cult and are sold and traded like items they no longer need.
By the age of 12, young girls are sold and married off to ol...more
By the age of 12, young girls are sold and married off to ol...more
Sheriff Joanna Brady juggles crime & family in fine yarn...
We'll admit we're big fans of JA Jance, having read every novel she's written, some two dozen to date. This tenth book (or so, depending if you count "Partner in Crime" featuring both her fictional stars) in the Sheriff Brady series sees Joanna incredibly busy with an unfortunate murder of a lonely poor woman surrounded by 17 dogs; a horrific car crash filled with 20-some illegal aliens; and family issues in abundance including morn...more
We'll admit we're big fans of JA Jance, having read every novel she's written, some two dozen to date. This tenth book (or so, depending if you count "Partner in Crime" featuring both her fictional stars) in the Sheriff Brady series sees Joanna incredibly busy with an unfortunate murder of a lonely poor woman surrounded by 17 dogs; a horrific car crash filled with 20-some illegal aliens; and family issues in abundance including morn...more
Exit Wounds, the 11th Joanna Brady book in the series, is the first one I've read since I read the original Joanna Brady book, Desert Heat. Someone loaned me this book, and I read it as a change of pace, on the heels of reading Georgette Heyer's Sprig Muslin. I remember reading about the loss of her first husband, and how she came to be Sheriff, and that I had enjoyed the book. Not sure why I didn't read more-I think I might have been entering into my reading English mystery phased, authors like...more
I love to read her books when I need to relax. They keep my interest and flow well. They have enough detail that I feel like I know Bisbee, but not so much that the story is bogged down.
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 “ah-hah” revelation surfaced more than three-quarters 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...more
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 “ah-hah” revelation surfaced more than three-quarters 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...more
This is the 11th book in the Joanna Brady series, and follows the pattern established in the beginning - we have a murder as a means of presenting Joanna's involvement with her community, its people, and its problems. In this case, the murder of a lonely, broken woman brings us face to face with the problems of incest, child molestation, polygamy, and (in a slightly different direction) hoarding animals. And, in Joanna's personal life, we learn that she is pregnant, and that Butch has finally so...more
I like Sheriff Johanna Brady. She is all "women's lib"--she earns her male detectives respect. She often gets the right start on solving a crime through her intuition. She manages work, her relationship with a Very understanding, supportive husband and a 13 y.o. daughter (and 3 dogs).
This story involves illegal Mexicans, and a group of religious zealots practicing bigamy and forcing children into marriage with old men and incest. None of that is exactly pleasant reading but the writing from the...more
This story involves illegal Mexicans, and a group of religious zealots practicing bigamy and forcing children into marriage with old men and incest. None of that is exactly pleasant reading but the writing from the...more
A Joanna Brady novel. Boring and no real surprises. A women who owns several dogs is shot and found dead with her dogs in her white trash trailer house. It is soon discovered that the dead women’s father belongs to a sect of the Mormon church called the “Bretheren” who believes in polygamy. The father has also had incestial relations with his daughters. These things lead to a series of murders. Good idea for a story but Jance failed to make the characters sympathetic or interesting.
A pet hoarder winds up shot in her trailer in the stifling Southwest heat and pregnant sheriff is plunged into a mystery involving a controlling cult and some of the darkest of human behavior. Sherriff Joanna Brady chases leads while running for re-election, fending off the criticism of her mother and dealing with the growing needs of her own teenage daughter. This straight-ahead story the satisfies the urge for an Arizona mystery in the summertime
Quite simply one of the worst books in the mystery/police procedural genre that I've ever had the misfortune of reading. Author Jance forces the unfortunate reader to endure over 150 pages of nonsensical non-plot related fluff before the story actually addresses the main plot line described in her prologue. Everything from overly dramatic descriptions of Rodeo riding, what characters have for breakfast to adopting stray dogs, I can hear the collective anguished cries of "OMG...get ON with it al...more
I really enjoyed this book and the character Sheriff Joanna Brady. This was actually my first Brady book and that by accident because I thought it was a Beaumont book. I resisted reading Joanna Brady because I did not like the character as portrayed in a made for TV movie. DOH! As usual, the book was so much better,....no comparison, to the movie.
Now that I started so late...do I go back and read about her former life or just continue on from here???? hmmmmm
Now that I started so late...do I go back and read about her former life or just continue on from here???? hmmmmm
it was a good time to read a book whose setting is 120o--when there is snow on the ground here. i prefer ja jance's series with 'beaau' beaumont, the private investigator, but this was nice, coming just as sheriff johanna brady finds out that she is pregnant, and adopts two more dogs. besides having a 'coyote' crash a vehicle holding 28 persons, there is the problem of a sect which allows polygamy and incest.
Exit Wounds, by J.A. Jance, is my second Joanna Brady mystery. This review is based on the audio version. The reader, Debra Monk, was a little annoying. Everything she said was pretty monotone.
This story started off really well, and caught my interest immediately. Carol Mossman, a loner, is found shot to death in her mobile home. Carol's seventeen dogs, were trapped inside her mobile home, and all except a puppy are found dead from the Arizona heat.
What follows after this was several subplots: J...more
This story started off really well, and caught my interest immediately. Carol Mossman, a loner, is found shot to death in her mobile home. Carol's seventeen dogs, were trapped inside her mobile home, and all except a puppy are found dead from the Arizona heat.
What follows after this was several subplots: J...more
This author never disappoints me evev tho I'm gw=etting good at predicting the plots. This was a good continiation of Joanna Brady as sheriff. Now married and running for re-election, she discovers she's pregnant,and has to solve a murder which turns into a triple homicide which then turns into an investigation of a cult with lots of polygamy and child abuse going on. Busy book, but a good quick read.
I read this because it was one of my Book Club's selections. I hadn't read any J.A. Jance before, or at least not that I can recall. I like the main character, Sheriff Joanna Brady. I hope the series story line won't suffer in the next titles because of the expected change in the Sheriff's life. I'll probably try the next book in the series to see if it keeps its edge.
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 romance-y mystery, I guess this is for you. Of course, it didn't help that I grabbed Jance's 11th book in a series.
When you reach some hotel and realize that you forgot your book at home and you don't have anything else to read, then what do you do? You find some book at hotel shelf and pick Exit Wounds. Yes, read this book only when you get it for free and when you don't have any other option.
This book is like any other potboiler; nothing exemplary to mention.
This book is like any other potboiler; nothing exemplary to mention.
Set in Chochise County, Arizona, this murder mystery features pregnant Sheriff Joanna Brady
who must solve the murder of animal hoarder Carol Mossman and the deaths of two journalists
who were planning to interview her. In the mix is a cult where young girls are married off to old codgers. This is fast paced and a real page turner.
who must solve the murder of animal hoarder Carol Mossman and the deaths of two journalists
who were planning to interview her. In the mix is a cult where young girls are married off to old codgers. This is fast paced and a real page turner.
I really couldn't dredge up much interest or enthusiam for this book. I would consider it my least favorite in the JoAnna Brady series. It seemed like there were too many subplots going on for any one of them or their characters to be properly developed and catch my sympathy and interest. I can't say it was bad--just not up to snuff.
Joanna has to deal with a re-election campaign as sheriff, morning sickness, three murders, and illegal aliens killed in a tragic wreck. A solid effort but it didn't wow me like some of the earlier books in the series did. On the plus side, the character is getting smarter at her job, and I do like that.
Good read lots of things to cover. Am working my way through all of the Joey Brady Dixon novels am really beginning to fall in love with Butch, would like to clone him and move him into my home, he really is a good dad to Jenny and good husband to Joey. Loved all of the books have read so far. Off to start another one next in line.
I really love the Joanna Brady series...Joanna is in the midst of a heated reelection campaign while investigating the murders surrounding a pet hoarder and the fatal wreck of a van carrying illegals...all the while enduring the 1st few weeks of a new pregnancy...very human and entertaining summer read!!!
I’m now exploring the mystery genre. I used Galileo to look for books like those of Laurie King’s Kate Martinelli novels. I liked her books because and independent woman with attitude is the main character, there are few graphic descriptions of killings, and we get to meet the people that Kate meets both in her professional and personal life.
Not the first…Sheriff Joanna Brady is in the midst of reelections when a woman’s body and her many dogs are found dead in a trailor in the middle of the A...more
I like this author. I read a book from another one of her series, and I like this series better. Again, though this one was #11 in the series, the books don't have to be read in order (although I am sure that would be the preferred method if possible!)
In Cochise County/Bisbee, AZ Sheriff Joanna Brady must find the killer of Carol Mossman, a dog hoarder, and driver/killer of a carload of illegals who flees police and overturns his vehicle and then leaves the scene where so many are found dead.
I like following the life of Joanna Brady - some books I read out of order but I don't care. I'll just keep reading until I catch up to her most recent book. This book explained to me about "hoarders" in regard to animals. I knew nothing about this.
Jul 26, 2011
Mary Newcomb
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Sheriff Brady and her investigative team unravel a complex tale into a full, yet disturbing, conclusion. The next matter to be resolved is the matter of re-election, the voters of Cochise County have a big decision to make.
I like the Joanna Brady series--she has a complicated mother and her relationship with her daughter is much more realistic than many novels--the mysteries are competently written
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Judith Ann Jance is the top 10 New York Times bestselling author of the Joanna Brady series; the J. P. Beaumont series; three interrelated thrillers featuring the Walker family; and Edge of Evil, the first in a series featuring Ali Reynolds. Born in South Dakota and brought up in Bisbee, Arizona, Jance lives with her husband in Seattle, Washington, and Tucson, Arizona.
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