Dead Wrong audiobook

Jance consistently writes wonderful stories! I like the books featuring Joanna Brady. It's been fun to watch Joanna's character develop throughout the series. She started out a housewife and mom who worked in an insurance office. When her husband is killed in the line of duty she sets out to find the killer. In the second book she is elected sheriff (sort of a sympathy vote, but still it gets her into position) and from then on, we see her develop into a seasoned police officer and confident administrator, but always struggling with the demands of motherhood and her place in the community. She seems REAL and she's the kind of person we'd all like to know and call our friend. At the end of every book I'm left anticipating the next!Joanna Brady is a gutsy and very pregnant Sheriff, she has one thing after the other to tend to. A murdered man with his fingers cut off. The beating and near death of a close friend andco-worker has Joanna on the warpath. The puzzle of past history of her father, his found journals and the knowledge of what that has to do with her current investigations are parts of the story line.What a story, especially when it all comes together with the new found information that not only clears up some current events, but deals with a past case that has woven over the years to come to a head in this fast moving story. Joanna not only shoots the carjacker, but saves the day, justas she finishes up her duty to her family and job.Nice to read a book that doesn't have people jumping in and out of bed with each other. I appreciate the lack of vulgarities and excessive gory details -- proof that riveting stories can still be written without these "props".

Sheriff Joanna is 9 months pregnant and feeling the stress especially when her in-laws come to visit. A man’s body is found with his fingers cut off, Joanna is able to find out that he is an ex-con who supposedly killed his wife and is now a minister. One of Joanna’s officers is attacked and all her resources are put towards solving that. It would be better to read the books in order since some of the things in this book you already know what happens if you have read the next one.

This is the first in this series that I have read and I didn't realize that until after I was well underway. I came to find out that this is #12 in the series. Which means to me that I didn't need to read the previous books to enjoy this one. It's a police procedural set in a county sheriff office. The sheriff in the story is pregnant and near her due date when she gets two murder cases. These cases are not intertwined and they require separate investigations.One of the cases causes the sheriff to reexamine her interactions with her father. He had been in the sheriff's office, working his way up to being sheriff himself. She has to depend on her memories and a newly discovered set of journals he had written over the course of his career to understand the beginnings of one of her murder cases. I found the cases, and the way she had to go back and forth between them very interesting. Life is messy and so are the solutions to these cases.

JoAnna Brady is one of my favorite Sheriff’s. Pregnant, running a county, and now another homicide on her plate, she just doesn’t know if she’s ready for maternity leave. Can she really leave her job to care for her soon to be newborn, especially with all that’s going on in her Department?As the investigation gets underway on the body recovered on Border Road, it’s not a normal homicide, all his fingers have been severed, no ID!!This was a great mystery and a fun one to try to solve before it was all revealed.Love this author, J. A. Jance has always been one of my go to favorite authors.

Good story in the world of Joanna Brady and Cochise County. I liked all the stories mixing together in the end. Sad ending for some (but I would've liked a little more with meeting the real grandma) but happy ending for Joanna and her family. Also, I like the idea with the dogs and inmates! 🙂

This is a suspenseful novel in the Sheriff Brady series. I loved that it was a female sheriff and that she is pregnant and still performing her job well, contrary to some people's belief that women can't keep up, especially when pregnant or a mom. I found the main character, Sheriff Brady, to be no-nonsense and still compassionate and committed. If you like a good mystery read, this is a good choice.

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Recommended for those who prefer to read s..l..o..w..l..y....

Great series. I love Sheriff Joanna Brady.(Note: to my sensitive Goodread followers - not the book for you.)

Dead Wrong by J.A. Jance is the 12th book about Sheriff Joanna Brady, pregnant with her second baby, getting involved in animal abuse, a dog fighting ring, murder, and her in-laws. A local pair of brothers are raising dogs to fight. An Animal control officer, intent on finding evidence, is beaten and struggles for her life. In another part of the County, a body is found with his fingers cut off. He is an ex-con, recently released from prison for murder. A search of his car reveals a camera with which he was apparently stalking a local woman. Joanna works both cases despite being short staffed and within a week of her due date. To make matters worse, her uninvited in-laws show up and plan to stay throughout the birth which only gives Joanna more reason to stay at work. Great fast read for J.A. Jance fans.

Police procedural. Sheriff Brady is short-handed and nine and a half months pregnant. So, naturally, it all hits the fan, starting with an unidentified body dumped near the Mexican border. That murder turns out to be connected to another some twenty years of so past. And while trying to make sense of that, one of her people is beaten to a pulp, three other people are killed, and the killer carjacks a car with two small children in it. Oh, and did I mention the puppies? And she has to deal with the day-to-day family affairs as she investigates these matters. Jance's Brady and Beaumont books are always good reads; this installment is exceptionally well plotted and filled with characters, of whom some are likeable, others not so much.

Now I need to back to the beginning of this series. I like the way she writes! Joanna is so real and down-to-earth, as is Butch, her husband.

ok in this book Sheriff Brady is very pregnant and dealing with 2 cases that take all her time and engery to solve before she gives birth to her 2nd child..so case # 1 is the body of an ex-con is found in the desert rolled in a tarp with his hands missing..turns out to be Brad Evans a man that was arrested and convicted for murdering his wife and unborn child 20 + years ago at the time of his rest Joanna's father D.H.Lathrop was the deputy that brought Evans in..Brad after he gets out is working for the prion ministry and disappears so one of the minster Ted comes to report him to Sheriff Brady and that is how they quickly find out who he is then it's off to the rat races trying to figure who killed him and why..along the way they discover all kinds of thing like Evans had taken some pictures of a local woman named Leslie who is married to an older gentleman named Rory Markham & they own a real estate buisness..sadly they figure out who killed Brad and discover the poor man was in prison for nothing cause someone else killed his wife and took his baby.. Case # 2 is one of the Animal Control officers named Jeannie has been find dead dogs all along the highway and even in trash cans she figures these 2 bad guys that are meaner then a rattlesnake are running an illegal dog fighting ring so because of them being busy with the first case Jeannie try's to prove it was the O'dwyers that owned and operated the whole thing and that gets her into a lot of trouble because they attack her along with 2-3 other bad guys ..they leave her for dead and it's upto Joanna and her team to figure everything out..Good book read it and enjoy

It's becoming a real challenge for Sheriff Joanna Brady to juggle family and career, especially with the impending delivery of her second child as well as a staff shortage, so the last things Joanna needs are two serious crimes. First, the body of an unidentified man is found in the desert, all of his fingers savagely severed. Joanna learns that the victim was an ex-con who had served twenty years in prison after confessing to the murder of his pregnant wife. During his last days he was seen following and photographing a young woman. Then one of Joanna's Animal Control Officers is brutally attacked and left for dead while on an unauthorized stakeout. Because the officer is one of its own, the department throws its resources into finding her attacker.I started following the author's J.P. Beaumont series and a friend told me about this series, so now I am reading through it. In addition, I also started reading her Ali Reynolds series. Two of the series take place in Arizona and one in the Seattle area, and she describes the areas well as she has lived in both areas.

This was my first Joanna Brady mystery, but it will not be the last! I really enjoyed this book, although it was a little longer than anticipated and we had to finish it at home after we finished our drive!Joanna is HUGELY pregnant, due almost any day, but an unidentified body has turned up. He is not only dead, but all 10 of his fingers have been cut off, possibly to delay identification? Through a coincidental remark by a colleague, the body is identified quickly as an ex-con, ex-drunk who served almost 20 years for his pregnant wife's murder and is now involved in prison ministry with other alcoholics.When Joanna looks at the original paperwork for the old crime, she discovers her father was the arresting officer! More connections arise and in the end, there was a horrible mistake made "back then", which her father had suspected all along. This is a good read - a good mystery, a satisfying ending and I would recommend it.