JA Jance Books in Order

This memoir in poetry and prose looks back on marriage, widowhood, recovery, and the hard work of starting over. It shows a more personal side of J.A. Jance, but with the same plainspoken honesty found in her fiction.

When a little girl is murdered, Seattle homicide detective J.P. Beaumont is pulled into a case involving a dangerous religious world and a woman he cannot resist. The deeper he goes, the closer the secrets come to his own life.

What should have been a quiet getaway turns ugly when Beau finds a dead man on a Washington beach and a beautiful stranger at the center of the scene. Politics, obsession, and murder turn his vacation into a nightmare.

A popular high school coach is found lynched in Seattle, leaving behind a pregnant wife and a pile of unanswered questions. Beau's investigation heads straight into passion, hate, and the kind of secrets that destroy families.

A dead man and a bloodied stiletto heel send Beau into a bizarre murder case with ties to show business, labor trouble, and a stylish killer. It is one of his strangest crime scenes, and one of the most dangerous.

A young woman's fatal fall from a Seattle high-rise looks wrong from the start. Beau follows the case into the world of ironworkers, dangerous job sites, and men with nerves of steel and deadly secrets.

A sadistic dentist is found murdered in his own chair, and Beau quickly learns that plenty of people had reason to hate him. The case grows darker as it exposes cruelty, abuse, and a rough kind of vigilante justice.

A software executive appears to have died by ritual suicide, complete with a samurai sword. One mistake in the staging tells Beau it was murder, and the truth leads into buried history and cultural blind spots.

At an Arizona rehab ranch, Beau is trying to get sober when his teenage roommate turns up dead with Beau's gun nearby. Suddenly he is fighting addiction, a murder charge, and a killer who wants him buried for good.

The first Walker family thriller brings brutal violence to the Arizona desert and pulls Brandon Walker's world into a nightmare with roots in older crimes. It mixes present-day danger with history, legend, and family scars.

Two bodies found in a Seattle school district broom closet look like a classic crime of passion. Beau is not convinced, and the widower he believes may be innocent is hiding a secret even hotter than adultery.

A respected cop and his family are slaughtered in their home, but one small boy survives by hiding. When whispers begin that the dead officer was dirty, Beau goes after the killer to save both the child and his friend's name.

Joanna Brady's life in Bisbee shatters when her husband Andy is shot and left to die in the desert. Refusing to believe the official story, she sets out to clear his name and walks straight into a deadly cover-up.

Beau heads to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival to track down his runaway daughter, only to land in the middle of a savage murder case. Revenge, deception, and more bloodshed quickly turn the trip into a disaster.

A Seattle fisherman is tortured and burned aboard his own boat, opening a case with roots that reach back decades. Beau is forced to confront an old flame, wartime horrors, and a web of greed that never really ended.

Still new to the badge, Joanna heads to Phoenix for crash-course police training and gets pulled into a murder case she cannot ignore. Her instincts say the wrong man is blamed, and a serial killer is moving too close to home.

Now the newly elected sheriff of Cochise County, Joanna has to win over a skeptical, male-dominated department while working a gruesome double homicide. The case reaches back through family history and some very ugly secrets.

A hated biotech executive turns up dead, and too many people seem ready to confess. While Beau wrestles with family trouble of his own, he is dragged into corporate betrayal, personal grudges, and a killer he may not want to find.

A drunk driver who escaped real punishment turns up murdered on the anniversary of the crash that killed a deputy's wife. Joanna's sympathy for the widower puts her on a dangerous path through deception and revenge.

When a popular teenager is found murdered after a secret midnight meeting, everyone is ready to blame her boyfriend. Joanna is not so sure, and the case leads her toward powerful people who would rather keep the truth buried.

A murdered gun dealer and a cache of stolen weapons set Cochise County on edge. Joanna has to decide whether she is dealing with a brewing anti-government standoff, a serial killer, or something even messier.

An elderly woman is burned to death in her bed, and Beau and his partner Sue Danielson catch the case. What begins as a city murder grows into something shattering, with consequences that change Beau's world for good.

An elderly widow is found dead in the desert, and the easy answer does not satisfy Joanna for a second. As she digs deeper, land deals, graft, and family greed point toward a far more calculating killer.

Still raw from personal loss, Beau joins his grandmother on an Alaskan cruise and finds murder waiting onboard. A killing caught on security video turns the trip into a closed-circle nightmare at sea.

A Native woman with a violent past is dead, and her teenage daughter has vanished into the Arizona night. Joanna follows the trail into the Dragoon Mountains, where old hatred and buried secrets are waiting.

A new Walker family case dives deeper into the dangerous meeting point of family history, desert lore, and present-day violence. The farther the search goes, the less willing the past is to stay buried.

Joanna's daughter Jenny stumbles across a dead woman during a Girl Scout camp-out in Apache Pass. When another girl is killed soon after, Joanna knows the murderer may now be hunting a child witness.

When a murdered artist in Cochise County turns out to be part of a witness protection case, Beau is sent to Arizona to investigate. There he collides with Sheriff Joanna Brady, and the sparks are not all professional.

A lonely woman is shot in her trailer, and an old bullet connects her death to other posed murders in the desert. While fighting a reelection battle, Joanna has to hunt a serial killer before he strikes again.

Borderland tensions and old secrets close in on the Walkers in a thriller that ties modern crime to the long memory of the desert. History is never just background in these books.

A nun's recovered memory points Beau toward a murder that has been cold for fifty years. At the same time, a fresh killing drags someone close to him under suspicion, making the case far more personal.

Very pregnant and carrying a full workload, Joanna takes on two brutal cases at once, an ex-con found mutilated in the desert and a female officer left for dead. Neither her pregnancy nor family worries can keep her off the job.

Forced off the air and facing divorce, former TV journalist Ali Reynolds heads home to Sedona to regroup. A new blog and a friend's death quickly pull her into a case where online threats become frighteningly real.

A killer is crisscrossing the Southwest and leaving grotesque murders behind. As Ali gets pulled into the case, the violence cuts painfully close to home and turns a public investigation into a parent's nightmare.

The shooting of a former death row inmate looks simple until Beau starts digging. Soon he and Mel Soames are uncovering a conspiracy that reaches into family tragedy, sex offender cases, and people in very high places.

A bound man trapped in a car trunk is only the start of a revenge-fueled case that draws Ali into obsession, betrayal, and murder. The closer she gets to the truth, the more personal the danger becomes.

What starts as online romance turns dark when deception on the internet spills into the real world. Ali must work out who is vulnerable, who is lying, and who is willing to kill to keep the game going.

A mountain car crash looks like suicide until the evidence starts disagreeing. Joanna's investigation soon widens to include a fatal fire, a home invasion, and human remains found after a desert storm.

A serial killer is burning young women in Washington while Joanna Brady works an Arizona homicide that seems unrelated. When the two cases begin to converge, Beau and Joanna are forced back into each other's orbit.

A raging Arizona wildfire leaves one woman to burn and turns a natural disaster into a murder case. Ali has to separate accident from intent while danger spreads as fast as the flames.

Another Walker family novel blends contemporary danger with inherited secrets, desert history, and the stories people carry across generations. Personal stakes run through every part of the mystery.

A horrifying video found on the governor's grandson's phone sends Beau into a case involving murdered teenagers and powerful people. He and Mel soon discover that what looks like a prank has much deeper rot underneath.

Ali begins the summer expecting to survive the Arizona Police Academy, not investigate murder. Training soon gives way to a dangerous case built on hidden motives, bad choices, and one very fatal mistake.

When Jenny finds her high school principal's body in the desert, Joanna's personal and professional lives slam together. Social media, angry teenagers, and a hidden past make this case hit painfully close to home.

Deputy sheriff Jose Reyes is shot and left to die, and the first explanation does not hold up for long. As suspicion falls in unexpected places, Ali digs into a case tangled up with border violence and betrayal.

Ali is asked to investigate the grisly murder of a wealthy divorcee on behalf of the woman accused of killing her. The case is full of money, shaky loyalties, and suspects with plenty to lose.

When veteran detective Milton Gurkey wakes beside a dead woman with the murder weapon in his hand, internal affairs is ready to pounce. It falls to Beau, once the rookie he tormented, to help clear his name.

Laid up for knee surgery, Beau expects downtime and gets something far stranger. Dreams and memories pull him back to Vietnam and his earliest days on the force, where old losses still demand answers.

Ali is finally about to marry B. Simpson in Las Vegas, but peace does not last long in her world. Wedding chaos, old friends, and a stray miniature dachshund bring a small but very Ali-shaped mystery to the celebration.

Ali spans continents to crack a cold case murder while also trying to learn who wants a young juvenile offender dead. It is a bigger, faster-moving thriller that tests her on several fronts at once.

A dying hoarder's hidden cash leads her daughter from Massachusetts to Cochise County, where Joanna is already working a mysterious death near Bisbee. Two very different puzzles begin to look like parts of the same story.

This novella follows Butch Dixon before he becomes a big part of Joanna Brady's world. When his ex-wife is murdered and the evidence points at him, a scrappy group of retired law-and-order veterans steps in to help.

A murder and a tangle of family loyalties draw Ali into a case shaped by old wounds and carefully hidden treachery. The coldest betrayals are the ones nobody sees coming until it is too late.

Brandon Walker asks Beau to help with an old Arizona murder that has unexpected ties to Seattle. Before long, the cold case turns urgent when two boys with links to the Walker family go missing.

Ali Reynolds and Joanna Brady team up when a family outing turns into a frightening crime scene. A few small clues, including a pile of Legos, help expose a threat that is anything but childlike.

With his old homicide unit gone, Beau is trying to adjust to a quieter life while Mel settles into a new job as police chief. Then Mel disappears, and he is suddenly back in the game with everything at stake.

Ali steps into the wreckage of a financial fraud case where ruined investors, lawyers, and insiders all have reasons to lie. Following the money may be the only way to find the killer.

Two women plunge to their deaths from a local peak near Bisbee, and Joanna has to figure out whether she is looking at murder, suicide, or both. The answer lies inside a family built on corrosive secrets.

A string of seemingly random crimes pulls Joanna Brady and Ali Reynolds into the same investigation. Once the pattern begins to show, both women know the next attack could land dangerously close to home.

A string of seemingly random crimes pulls Ali Reynolds and Joanna Brady into the same investigation. Once the pattern begins to show, both women know the next attack could land dangerously close to home.

A death tied to an exclusive getaway at sea pulls Ali into a case where wealth and appearances hide ugly motives. What first looks like misfortune starts to look much more like murder.

When Beau's longtime rival, crime reporter Maxwell Cole, dies in what looks like an accident, Beau is drawn into the case at the dead man's own request. The trail leads to grudges that have been waiting years to strike.

Beau joins a cold case group called The Last Chance and takes on the decades-old disappearance of Janice Marie Harrison. Everyone tied to the case has kept something hidden, and one lie has lasted far too long.

A bitter feud and a carefully staged crime send Ali after the truth in a case where reputation matters almost as much as survival. One long-running conflict is heading toward a deadly finish.

When human bones surface in Cochise County, Joanna faces a case that reaches from the desert into lives that have been overlooked for too long. Old violence and a present threat turn the search for truth into a race.

Retired life is not so quiet when someone from Beau's past arrives with a newborn and a plea for help finding a missing young woman. The search uncovers family secrets that reach straight into Beau's own history.

A murder among the wealthy and well connected sends Ali into a world built on status, money, and quiet cruelty. Everyone wants to shape the story, which makes the truth even harder to reach.

A threat that seems distant turns frighteningly real, pulling Ali and B. Simpson's team into a race against danger that is both digital and personal. This time, the warning is credible for a reason.

A disappearance in Cochise County turns into a tense hunt across the Arizona borderlands. Joanna has to cut through fear, family loyalty, and mounting danger before another victim vanishes for good.

Ali's home life is shaken when a former employee of B. Simpson's reappears just as a serial killer turns his attention toward her circle. To protect the people she loves, she has to finish what the past left undone.

A cybersecurity emergency puts Ali's family and closest allies in the line of fire. To stop the next strike, she has to identify the enemy treating ordinary lives as acceptable collateral damage.

Father Jared Danielson asks Beau to find his missing brother, Chris, reopening wounds Beau never escaped. The search pulls him from Washington to wintertime Alaska and back into the tragedy of Sue Danielson's family.