Outlaw Mountain – J.A. Jance
Publ – 1999
(My Blurb) Sheriff Joanna Brady has a lot going on in her life right now. She is a young widow with a daughter to raise. Her best friend is grieving over the death of one of her twins and thinking about quitting her job as a minister.
At work, she is dealing with a rather sadistic murder of an old lady in the desert, her two fighting adult children, and the missing boyfriend/husband of the lady.
She has to handle an older, mentally-challenged man, someone deserted at a local church during a craft fair.
Throw in a person dropped out of the witness protection program and probably in great danger, another murder, environmental protesters, crooked politicians and developers, a suicide, a surprise engagement, a car trunk full of rattlesnakes, a country club set - who are into drugs and wife-swapping, and you have a pretty busy time in her part of Arizona.
(My thoughts) It started out as a rather dark, depressing story but it got better. I liked this writers way of telling a story. She kept it moving along at a good pace and kept it interesting. Not a lot of gory details or unneeded violence.
I’d give it a – 7 ½
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