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Damage Control (Joanna Brady Mysteries, Book 13)
by: J. A. Jance

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Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780060746766
ISBN: 0060746769
Label: William Morrow
Manufacturer: William Morrow
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 384
Publication Date: July 22, 2008
Publisher: William Morrow
Release Date: July 22, 2008
Studio: William Morrow
Sales Rank: 15549

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Editorial Review:

Product Description:

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 retrieve the bodies, and to make matters worse, a thunder-storm is looming on the horizon. Hours later and miles away, the subsiding rain reveals gruesome evidence: two trash bags containing human remains.

It's just another day in the life of Cochise County sheriff Joanna Brady.

Back at home, Joanna has a newborn baby, a teenage daughter, a writer husband, and a difficult mother to deal with. But in the field, it turns out that she has much more on her hands. The remains are those of a handicapped woman who had wandered away from a care facility with a suspicious track record. Another resident, with whom the woman may have been involved, has also been reported missing.

Meanwhile, a note is found in the glove compartment of the car lying twisted down the mountainside, stating that its occupants intended to take their own lives. Yet a contradictory autopsy report surfaces, and when the deceased's two daughters show up to feud over their inheritance, Joanna knows there is more to this case than just a suicide pact.

And she will go all out to find the truth—no matter where it leads.

Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- Maybe we guys shouldn't review this author's books
There are a number of lady suspense and mystery writers I enjoy. I read an Ali Teynolds mystery and found it definitely okay although weak in the suspense.Now there's this one in the Joanna Brady series and not only did I feel that the mystery element suffered from an excess of the lead character's personal issues, but there was no central mystery plot.It's obvious that the author is popular. But this one definitely disaponted me.

Rating:

- pretty dippy
Limited suspense, uneven story line, distracting subplots and tangential, mundane details that never quite come together. I am not sure what the target audience is for this book, but I am not in it.

Rating:

- Good Storyline but Some Annoying Characters
I have not read all of the Joanna Brady books so not sure how her character has morphed but I found Joanna's character to be a bit annoying in this one. (I have read a couple others and didn't find her quite so annoying in the other 2) I don't know if the author is intentionally making her an insecure character or it's just the way I'm preceiving it. She is never home and when she is she finds fault with all of Butch's decisions. Someone has to take care of things. She has a baby boy she hardly spends any time with and when she does I don't sense any cuddling or caring about what she's doing. The same with Butch-now this isn't a romance book but this is her husband and other than a quick peck on the cheek that's it and that usually comes from Butch. She has to be in control at all times at ... Read More

Rating:

- Damage Control
I have loved the whole series about Sheriff JoAnna Brady. I could hardly put this book down. I will greatly anticipate the next one in the series.

Rating:

- 30 percent mystery, 70 percent soap opera
In my opinion, "Damage Control" suffers from the same problem that I think afflicts most modern mystery (and horror) writing: it's really two books -- a mystery and a straight novel -- with little connection between the two. (I concede up front that it may not be accurate to call this a "problem," since there seems to be a large audience for this kind of writing.)

As a mystery, "Damage Control" starts out promisingly, with two nicely written death scenes that leave the reader wondering how they might be connected. These scenes were what I got with the free Kindle sample and were what prompted me to buy the book. Unfortunately, the story soon takes a long detour into the personal lives of the continuing characters, until I started to wonder whether we would ever get back to solving ... Read More

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