Sheriff Joanna Brady is the only female sheriff in Arizona. Her father was a sheriff, and her late husband was a deputy, so she knows the law. Her daughter goes on a girl-scout campout, and finds the body of a dead woman. Two murders later, Joanna is still at a loss as to who the killer is. Are they all connected? Is the killer still at large? Will her daughter be the next target?

all of the extraneous information. Details of exactly what the characters did, timeline fashion. The carjackers had nothing to do with the story, except to throw the reader off a bit.

toss it.

like I wasted my time.

is admirable for putting out so many books in this series. I couldn't write a whole novel, but I do think that she could have done it better. Too much filler, not enough story.

it's the newest book in the Joanna Brady series... if you read those.

it doesn't make the reader think, everything is too obvious.

After reading this book, I realized that it is the newest edition of a series. Keeping that in mind, this book may not have been as bad as I thought, if I had read the previous books in the series. With any series, a reader just can't get the full perspective if they don't start from the beginning. The author is an expert of making "much ado about nothing."

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