Fire and Ice audiobook

I have been a fan of the Joanna Brady series for many years. I lived in AZ for 11 years so that may contribute to my enjoyment. I am not familiar with J P Beaumont for some reason. I liked how the two stories eventually came together and brought these two together again. One of the things I like about the series is that it shows law enforcement having personal lives and their struggle to be there for family and friends when duty so often calls them away. And boy howdy (I have now heard that expression in 3 separate audio books by different authors and it always makes me smile) did I dislike their new ME!! He is despicable.

JP is working on a case of 6 murdered women, at the same time Sheriff Joanna Brady is looking into a lost elderly woman, a horrible nursing home and a caregiver who was ran over and left for the dead. Even though the cases were a thousand miles apart some of them overlap and JP and Joanna find themselves working together. Jp’s relationship with Mel is ongoing. A long ago attraction betweenJP and Joanna makes them uncomfortable.

There was a lot going on in this book since it was a mash-up of the J.P. Beaumont series and the Joanna Brady series. With perspective changing often, you have to pay attention. I have enjoyed both of these series, but the thing that has bothered me in this book and the previous mash-up book, Partner in Crime, was the attraction between Beau and Joanna. At the time it was mentioned in Partner in Crime, Joanna was newly and happily married. For such a strong female character, to have and admit to an attraction to another person at that point in her life made me lose a bit of respect for her and I didn't see why the author felt the need to add that in. To make matters worse it was brought up again in this book and dismissed by both characters, but I didn't think it added anything to the story but discomfort.

Another meeting of Joanna Brady and J.P. Beaumont. I really like the way she blended the stories in this one, with Joanna in AZ and Beau in WA, working on related cases but not aware of that for quite awhile. Instead of breaking the story into separate chapters, there were sections in each chapter devoted to each location, really making it all come together much better. And when they finally meet face to face near the end, their past comes between them for only a moment. A great story! I also love the way she adopts different causes to emphasize in her books. In this one, she really brings home the horrors of "care" homes for Alzheimer patients, as well as one of her common themes of the dangers which threaten illegal immigrants. Great author!

Fire and Ice was a great read! It took me a bit with all the different parts, but in the end i enjoyed it.. This was my first book ive read by J.A. Jance, and i plan to read more!

Fun and interesting, never boring so five. Crime Chasers. I do enjoy reading J.A. Jance's mystery books. This book involves Detective Beaumont and Sheriff Amanda Brady. Set in the Washington State area and Bisbee, Arizona countryside. Both are solving crimes in their own areas, looking for criminals. This book is filled with quirky characters, good and bad, but different and interesting. The book goes into bad nursing homes, people dying from neglect, starvation, dirty, messy places that need to be closed down. Sheriff Brady is determined to make this happen. She is a feisty, little redhead, a mom with a teenage daughter and a year old son.Detective Beaumont is a very wealthy man. His second wife was very wealthy. She was killed, only about a day from her marriage and left her money to Beaumont. Beaumont married his third wife, another detective. he drives a mercedes, lives in a beautiful apartment in Seattle. He keeps on being a cop, he won't quit. this book is in chapters, both Beau and Amanda are in the same chapter, one protagonist breaking into the other space. Beau tells his story in first person, Amanda in third.Beau is after who is killing prostitutes. Some young women are trying to get away from that lifestyle. Pimps won't allow them. There are those trying to help them. A detective is looking for his missing sister, a man looking for the woman he loves.The book goes into the cartels and illegals. The book is a fun read but gets into serious subjects.

I love the Joanna Brady series but haven't read any of the J.P. Beaumont series (except the crossovers). I don't usually mind the crossovers, but this one took a long time for them to connect. There was so much going on that I got lost at one part. I did enjoy the way it was all figured out and didn't realize who the dead girl was going to end up being. Still a good story and I already have the next one waiting for me!!

I missed this one earlier in the series. Still enjoyed catching it out of sequence. Having the case worked from Arizona and Washington simultaneously gave the reader the opportunity to make some connections that law enforcement had not made as they had not yet compared notes. Love Sheriff Joanna Brady and her team!

One of the author's crossover books. It takes a while for the two stories to dovetail, but when they do, it makes for fascinating reading.

Bestselling author, J. A. Jance brings together her two most popular characters, Seattle homicide investigator J.P. Beaumont and Cochise County Arizona Sheriff, Joanna Brady.I've been reading Jance's Joanna Brady series for several years but have only read a couple of her J. P.. Beaumont series which are set in Seattle. Having lived in Tucson for forty years it's always fun to see what local landmarks she carves out to feature in her storyline. The book starts off with two quite distinct crime scenes, each in Beaumont and Brady's respective jurisdictions. They work independently on their investigation without the knowledge of them having a connection to each other. The reader will ping-pong between the two until it gets near the halfway mark before discovering how they relate.Jance always writes stories with engaging characters and believable plots. On the negative side, the POVs were never clearly delineated so sometimes the change in character viewpoint came as a surprise. It's probably a more enjoyable read if you are already a fan of both characters. Since I had only read a couple of the J. P. Beaumont books I felt like I could follow both storylines without difficulty.There's a lot going on in this book but I always enjoy seeing how Joanna copes with being Sheriff, as well as mom to a teenager and year old baby. I expect I scored it higher than others due to the nostalgic fun I always get reading a book set in my home town. I will definitely pick up another book in the Joanna Brady series.

Reading in sequence is not strictly important with these. This one is very good but it takes a while for the two stories to merge into one and I had a little trouble keeping the points of view straight. Perhaps not a real page-turner but certainly an eager-to-get-back-to-it!! Likeable protagonists; good people trying to do good things: nice quality for fiction in these times. I will read on in both series.

Fire and Ice – 5 PawsJ. A. JanceWilliam Morrow, 2009, 338 PagesISBN No. 978-0-06-123822-9Fans of J. A. Jance will be thrilled with this new book where J. P. Beaumont and Joanna Brady are once again thrown together. The individual cases are very far apart in both distance and the type of case.Beaumont is at home in Seattle happy in his life with Melissa Soames, his wife and sometimes partner, in the Special Homicide Investigation Team a/k/a S.H.I.T. The department is working on a series of murders where young women have been wrapped in tarps, doused in gasoline and set on fire. The investigators believe that the women may have been prostitutes. The fact that the bodies have been burned and the teeth have been pulled makes it very difficult to identify the victims. The last body was disposed of in a hurry and this one still has her teeth. This is the first real lead in the crimes.Sheriff Johanna Brady is working a different type of murder case in Cochise County, Arizona. The caretaker at an ATV park called Action Trail Adventures had been run over and left to die in the desert. Lester Attwood, the victim, had some problems in his past but his sister felt that he put his problems behind him since becoming caretaker at the ATV Park. Sheriff Brady has a lot on her plate right now with a budget that will not give an inch and a new Medical Examiner. Brady also has to deal with a nursing home scandal that is heartbreaking. The story shifts back and forth between the murder investigation Beaumont is handling in Washington and Brady’s problems in Arizona. When Beaumont finds a connection between his latest victim and an officer in Brady’s Cochise County Sheriff’s department the story really heats up. Fire and Ice is a must read for J. A. Jance’s fans. It is not necessary to have read other Beaumont and Brady novels to enjoy this book.

Fire And Ice: A Beaumont And Brady Novel by J.A. JanceThis is the second Beau and Brady novel and it went well, but I thought the two would get together sooner than they did in this book. Beau is on a case in the Seattle area that surrounds a missing woman from Bisbee, that has been found murdered in a dense forested area by Cle Elum. The one real break in the case, was that the murderer was afraid of pulling teeth, as the other 5 women were found without any teeth. Because this dead woman was from Bisbee, Joanna is brought in on the case, also because she was related to one of Joanna's homicide detectives. Since Joanna is working on a suscpicious hit and run accident in an out-of-the way ATV Recreation spot, she and her department are thinking the two cases are connected. Then, Joanna gets involved in a hotly contested abuse case at an Alzheimers Home that causes a patient to go missing and a mysterious death to occur. Joanna is certain a couple bodies will be needed to be exhumed to solve this case. I enjoy the humor and quirkiness of the townsfolk in Bisbee that I've come to think of as family, but Joanna's new ME I can sure do without as does the rest of the Sheriff's Department. This is the first book I've read, I believe, where the conversation switches from third person to first person, which can tend to get confusing, but on a whole, I would recommend reading Jance's highly entertaining suspense novels, esp Joanna's and Ali's.Forever Friends Rating 4 Stars by TeriUntil Next Time, See You Around The Book Nook.Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Pub. Date: July 2009 ISBN-13: 9780061239229 352pp Series: Joanna Brady Series, #14Available in eBook$9.99 More Formats Online Price Paperback - Large Print - Large Print $20.79 Compact Disc - Unabridged, 9 CDs/10.5 Hours $31.99

J.P. Beaumont of S. H. I. T. S. (Special Homicide investigation Team) in Seattle and Joanna Brady, Sheriff of Cochise County Arizona are both in this book. Each is working on a case that by the end of the book join together. Meanwhile Joanna has several other cased going as she deals with small town politics and ruffled feathers. Beau and Wife and partner Mel work a case of burned bodies of young women found in similar circumstances. The book shifts from Arizona to Washington and back as each story is brought up to date but it doesn't hurt the narrative. One thing I noticed was the description of Ellensburg Washington. The various parties stayed a the Best Western, and so have we several times in fact. It's always neat to come across a thing or place that you know when reading.ISBN - 978-0-06-123922-9, Suspense, Pages - 352, Print Size - R, Rating - 4.5

Ms. Jance has combined her two key characters from two series of books into one, wrapping up one very loose end at the same time.J. P. Beaumont has moved on: he left the Seattle P.D. and has remarried to wife number 3. It sounds like she is good for him.Sheriff Joanna Brady has too much on her plate all at one time. Plus she's the Best Person at the marriage of one of her good friends; her mom and step-father are starting a new aspect of their lives and she's coping with a teen ager and toddler at home.She does not need Beau coming back into her life now.It's an easy read and a very fast one, too. The way the two major stories are connected is very interesting. Plus, you get the intimate descriptions contrasting the Southwestern desert, and Pacific Northwest.