Joanna Brady (JA Jance) Books in Order

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.

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 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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.