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Damage Control
Joanna Brady series # 13

by J A  Jance


   Cochise County Sheriff Joanna Brady must juggle her career with the needs of her writer husband Butch, their infant son and her teenage daughter.

Her day begins with the bodies of an elderly couple who drove their car off a cliff.  Was it consensual suicide or murder / suicide?   Then Detective Carbajal's nephew discovers a body in the desert, a woman shoots a home invader who may or may not be her abusive boyfriend, and a mysterious fire kills an older man and leaves three homeless.

Joanna must investigate all of these events to determine whether any were accidents and which were a result of foul play.  Her investigations lead to a shady organization that created a halfway house for disabled, troubled persons, using them for criminal activities.  She finds a solution to her own problems with the displaced family taking over her ranch.

Damage Control is a fast-paced story with well drawn characters.  We are reacquainted with Brady and her family.  It is a story of family betrayals and conflicts which lead to death.

An absorbing read that constantly keeps the reader's interest.

Reviews of other titles in this series

Paradise Lost #1 [review 1] [review 2]
Tombstone Courage #2
Dead to Rights #3
Exit Wounds #11
Dead Wrong #12
Damage Control #13
Fire and Ice #14 [JP Beaumont series #19]

The Book

William Morrow
July 22, 2008
Hardcover
9780060746766
Suspense / Police procedural
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The Reviewer

Barbara Buhrer
Reviewed 2008
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