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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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If it’s March it must be book festival season. Over the course of my career, I’ve attended any number of book festivals. Today I’m going to touch on only three of them.

I’ve been invited to attend the LA Times book festival exactly once. It was what you might call a one and done. For reasons known only to the organizers, I was assigned to the Noir panel. I don’t write Noir, but I soon discovered th

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	Desert Heat (Joanna Brady, #1) 4.03 avg rating — 15,878 ratings — published 1993 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Until Proven Guilty (J.P. Beaumont, #1) 3.97 avg rating — 16,076 ratings — published 1985 — 33 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Missing and Endangered (Joanna Brady, #19) 4.25 avg rating — 10,997 ratings — published 2021	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nothing to Lose (J.P. Beaumont, #25) 4.38 avg rating — 10,429 ratings — published 2022 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fire and Ice (J.P. Beaumont, #19 / Joanna Brady, #14) 4.05 avg rating — 10,907 ratings — published 2009 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tombstone Courage (Joanna Brady, #2) 4.07 avg rating — 10,730 ratings — published 1994 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Edge of Evil (Ali Reynolds, #1) 3.89 avg rating — 10,459 ratings — published 2005 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Second Watch (J.P. Beaumont, #21) 4.22 avg rating — 9,295 ratings — published 2013 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Partner in Crime (J.P. Beaumont, #16 / Joanna Brady, #10) 4.10 avg rating — 9,355 ratings — published 2002 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Remains of Innocence (Joanna Brady, #16) 4.15 avg rating — 9,233 ratings — published 2014 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Rev. Clare Fergusson & Russ Van Alstyne Mysteries by Julia Spencer-Fleming

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Wine Country by Ellen Crosby

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Tracers by Laura Griffin

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Evan Delaney by Meg Gardiner

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Carolyn Sullivan by Nancy Taylor Rosenberg

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Kate Burkholder by Linda Castillo

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Booktown Mystery by Lorna Barrett

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Monkeewrench by P.J. Tracy

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Suspicion by Barbara Parker

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Thanks for being my Goodreads friend, although since I've read ALL of your books, I feel like we're already friends. "Dance of the Bones" is next up on my Kindle. My reading genre of choice has always been mysteries and thrillers and I hardly ever get into sci-fi, but I started to see movie ads for the new Matt Damon movie, "The Martian" and it looked really good. I'm one of those people who always insist that the book is better than the movie. So I got "The Martian" by Andy Weir and I can't put it down. I highly recommend it to everyone who wants to read a "by the seat of your pants" book with just the right amount of humor.

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