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 enlarge | Author: J. A. Jance
Publisher: William Morrow
Category: Book
List Price: $25.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  32 reviews
Sales Rank: 3587
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 384
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.5 x 1.4
ISBN: 0060746769
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780060746766
ASIN: 0060746769
Publication Date: July 22, 2008
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Condition: Brand New!!! bce
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 Once more into the breach for Sheriff Brady September 24, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I find myself looking for the characters and places as I travel Sheriff Brady's jurisdiction. It is impossible to read J.A.Jances books and not begin thinking of them as almost real. The problems and trials are those we all face or have faced- our good sheriff in book after book is very human in her resolutions of problems. This book like the others in the series is a superb example of a well written mystery book. I can recommend this book without reservation , you will enjoy every page.
 The Good and the Bad September 18, 2008
Damage Control, by J.A. Jance is book # 13 in the Joanna Brady series. Although I have read a few of Jance's mysteries and enjoyed them, I have not read a lot of books in this series.
HarperCollins Short Review
An intruder is murdered. An elderly couple runs their car off a cliff while holding hands. A trailer fire kills a man. Skeletal remains are found in a plastic bag. A quiet weekend in Cochise County, Arizona is a thing of the past. "Damage Control" combines suicide, murder, and mayhem--with revelations concerning Sheriff Joanna Brady's personal life--in a rousing mystery sure to keep you turning the pages far into the night.
Well, long story short, this book did not have me turning pages long into the night. I did enjoy parts of it very much, but after a great start, the book slowed to a turtle's pace, and I began to lose interest. I am glad I finished the book, but all in all I found this one to be just a so so read.
One of the best in this series September 16, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is vintage J.A. Jance. She does a masterful job of interweaving the personal and professional lives of her heroine, Sheriff Joanna Brady, while giving her fans a great read. On the professional side, Joanna is faced with the apparent murder/suicide of an elderly couple, a man who dies in a mobile home fire, and the discovery of a decomposed body found in a trash bag. Personally, Joanna struggles to balance her personal life, which involves her husband Butch trying to promote his new book while tending to their young son and her teenaged daughter. During the course of this book, Joanna and Butch have to work out several compromises between the demands of their jobs and those of their growing family. Their struggles are very realistic in the light of today's two-career families, and the family issues are handled in a positive and practical fashion. This is one of the best books in a very good series.
Great Joanna Brady Mystery!!!! September 16, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This new offering by J.A. Jance, Damage Control, is as good as her others in her Joanna Brady series. For those who've not had a taste of Jance, you're in for atreat, esp with this 13 book series. Joanna is the sheriff of Bisbee in Cochise County, Arizona. Her first case happens to be an accident off an overpass, which looks like a suicide pact between an elderly local couple, but when the evidence pops up, some very suspicious characters loom in the picture. Another case, where an intruder breaks into the house of a young terrified and much abused and battered woman, kills the guy, thinking him to be her ex-boyfriend Amidst all this, there is a horrific storm, whichmakes recovering the bodies and car from aravine. Then, a young boy finds parts of a dead body in two large trash bags that had floated miles from where the body was left. Trying to juggle a career, a teenaged daughter, a 4 month old baby son, spelling feedings with her author/writer hubby and trying to understand her difficult mother, makes for a good read.
On a beautiful sunny day in the Coronado National Monument, an elderly couple's car goes off the side of a mountain and into oblivion. The terrain is so rocky that a helicopter must be flown in to redtrieve the bodies, and to make matters worse, a thunderstorm is looming onthe horizon. Hours later and miles away, the subsiding rain redveals gruesome evidence: two trash bags containing human remains. This is just a little to whet your appetite for more. I highly recommend this new novel by a great best-selling author. She has her new Ali Reynolds series, J.P. Beaumont series and a 3 book thriller.
Jance Review September 8, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Another fabulous Joanna Brady read from Judith! Thank you for all the years of enjoyment.
Laurie
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