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J A Jance Biography & Facts
Judith Ann (J. A.) Jance (born October 27, 1944) is an American author of mystery novels. She writes three series of novels, centering on retired Seattle Police Department Detective J. P. Beaumont, Arizona County Sheriff Joanna Brady, and former Los Angeles news anchor turned mystery solver Ali Reynolds. The Beaumont and Brady series intersect in the novel Partner in Crime, which is both the 16th Beaumount mystery and the 10th Brady mystery. They intersect again in Fire and Ice. Biography Jance was born in Watertown, South Dakota, and raised in Bisbee, Arizona (the setting for her Joanna Brady series of novels). Before becoming an author, she worked as a school librarian on a Native American reservation (Tohono O'Odham), and as a teacher and insurance agent. Jance attended University of Arizona, graduating with a bachelor's degree in education in 1966, then a master's in library science in 1970. In 2000, University of Arizona awarded Jance an honorary doctorate.In July 2018, The Strand Magazine gave Jance its Lifetime Achievement Award to recognize her contributions to the field of crime fiction.She lives part of the year in Arizona and part of the year in Seattle. Jance uses her initials for her pen name because a publisher told her that disclosing her gender would be a liability for a book about a male detective. At signings, Jance asks bookstores to donate a percentage of their earnings from her appearances to various causes. Over the past 10 years, she has raised more than $250,000 for charity. Books References External links Official Web site Interview with J.A. Jance, A DISCUSSION WITH National Authors on Tour TV Series, Episode #104 (1994). Discover the J A Jance popular books. Find the top 100 most popular J A Jance books.
Best Seller J A Jance Books of 2024
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Paradise Lost
J. A. JanceThe New York Times bestselling J.A. Jance is back! Cochise County, Arizona, and Sheriff Joanna Brady faces her most personal and dangerous case when her daughter discovers a body i...
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Breach of Duty
J. A. JanceFor the first time as a premium edition, a reissue of the fourteenth J. P. Beaumont novel by New York Times bestselling author J. A. Jance.
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The Old Blue Line
J. A. JanceButch Dixon has been taken for a ride …Not a jump in the car, see the sights kind of ride. He's been taken for everything he has. He's lost his house, his restaurant business, his ...
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Lover Arisen
J.R. WardTrue love brings a deadly threat to the Black Dagger Brotherhood in this sizzling new novel in J.R. Ward’s #1 New York Times bestselling series.Possessed by the demon Devina, Balth...
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Taking the Fifth
J. A. Jance“J.A. Jance does not disappoint.”Washington TimesThe Chattanooga Times calls New York Times bestselling author J.A. Jance, “One of the bestif not the best,” and this classic suspen...
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Fatal Error
J. A. JanceWhen an old friend is accused of murdering a cybersociopath who courted women over the Internet only to steal all of their money, Ali Reynolds steps in to investigateJance’s newest...
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Dance of the Bones
J. A. JanceJ. P. Beaumont and Brandon Walker, two of New York Times bestselling author J. A. Jance’s most acclaimed series characters, join forces for the first time in one of the most suspen...
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Second Watch
J. A. JanceWith Second Watch, New York Times bestselling author J. A. Jance delivers another thoughtprovoking novel of suspense starring Seattle investigator J. P. Beaumont. Second Watch...
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Damage Control
J. A. JanceAt first glance, it appears to be an accident . . .A car carrying an elderly couple goes off the side of a mountain and tumbles into oblivion on a beautiful sunny day in the Corona...
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The A List
J. A. JanceIn this timely “devilish pageturner” (People) from New York Times bestselling author J.A. Jance, Ali Reynolds learns that no good deed goes unpunished.More than ten years after the...
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Remains of Innocence
J. A. JanceSheriff Joanna Brady must solve two perplexing cases that may be tied together in New York Times bestselling author J. A. Jance’s thrilling tale of suspense that brings to life Ari...
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Dead Wrong
J. A. JanceJuggling a family and a career has never been easy for Cochise County Sheriff Joanna Brady. Now the impending birth of her second child only adds to her burden, especially when two...
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Failure to Appear
J. A. JanceA shattering tale of tragedy and terror featuring Seattle detective J.P. Beaumont.A desperate father’s search for his runaway daughter has led him to the last place he ever expecte...
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Betrayal of Trust
J. A. Jance“Murder, teenage bullying, sleazy adults, and good police work add up to another fine entry by Jance.”The OklahomanBetrayal of Trust is the twentieth mystery by New York Times best...
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Improbable Cause
J. A. JancePerhaps it was fitting justice: a dentist who enjoyed inflicting pain was murdered in his own chair. The question is not who wanted Dr. Frederick Nielsen dead, but rather who of th...
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Random Acts
J. A. JanceFrom New York Times bestselling authorJ. A. JANCEcomes an all new novella,in which Sheriff Joanna Brady and investigatorAli Reynolds join forces to solve a crime thathas hit danger...
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Minor in Possession
J. A. JanceA gripping story of buried truths, deceit, and sudden, brutal death from the New York Times bestselling author of Long Time Gone.All manner of sinners and sufferers come to the reh...
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Name Withheld
J. A. JanceAn explosive novel of betrayal and blood vengeance featuring Seattle detective J.P. Beaumont.There are those who don’t deserve to liveand the corpse floating in Elliott Bay may hav...
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Edge of Evil
J. A. JanceFor the first time as a premium edition, a reissue of the first book in the Ali Reynolds series by New York Times bestselling author J. A. Jance
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Exit Wounds
J. A. JanceSheriff Joanna Brady seeks an elusive and chillingly brutal killer whose crimes run deep into the past in the next New York Times bestseller from the author of Partner in Crime
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Ring In the Dead
J. A. JanceJ. P. Beaumont may be an old homicide hand now, but back when he was a rookie working with his first partner, Milton Gurkeya.k.a. Picklesthings took a turn for the worse . . .One d...
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Queen of the Night
J. A. Jance“J.A. Jance is among the bestif not the best.”Chattanooga TimesIn Queen of the Night, New York Times bestselling author J.A. Jance brings back the Walker familyintroduced in Hour o...
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Without Due Process
J. A. JanceA spellbinding story of lies, betrayal, and multiple murder featuring Seattle detective J.P. Beaumont.What kind of monster would break into a man’s home at night, then slaughter hi...
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Lying in Wait
J. A. JanceAn electrifying story of vengeance and the sins of a nightmarish past featuring Seattle detective J.P. Beaumont.The sky above Puget Sound blazes orange, as a burning fishing boat f...
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Sins of the Fathers
J. A. JanceSeattle investigator J. P. Beaumont is drawn into an intriguing, and shockingly personal, case in this superb tale of suspense from New York Times bestselling author J. A. Jance.Fo...
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A More Perfect Union
J. A. JanceA shattering tale of corruption and homicide featuring Seattle detective J.P. Beaumont.A shocking photo screamed from the front pages of the tabloidsthe last moments of a life capt...
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The Wolf
J.R. WardReturn to the sizzling glymera’s prison camp in this dark and sexy second novel in the new Black Dagger Brotherhood Prison Camp spinoff series from the #1 New York Times bestsellin...
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Cruel Intent
J. A. JanceFrom New York Times bestselling author J.A. Jance comes a chilling tale of suspense, where a coldblooded murderer lures former newscaster Ali Reynolds into a chilling web of online...
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Birds of Prey
J. A. JanceThe Starfire Breeze steams its way north toward the Gulf of Alaska, buffeted by crisp sea winds blowing down from the Arctic. Those on board are seeking peace, relaxation, adventur...
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Payment in Kind
J. A. JanceIt looks like a classic crime of passion to Detective J.P Beaumont: two corpses found lovingly entwined in a broom closet of the Seattle School District building. The prime suspect...
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Outlaw Mountain
J. A. JanceAlice Rogers, an elderly widow, is dead, found murdered in the Arizona desert. It's easy enough to pin the killing on the teens caught driving her car across the Mexican border, bu...
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Stand Down
J. A. JanceAn eoriginal novella from New York Times bestselling author J. A. Jance. Life has shifted for J. P. Beaumont. After a tragic accident that devastatedand ultimately disban...
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Judgment Call
J. A. JanceThe New York Times bestselling master of mystery and suspense, J.A. Jancewhom the Chattanooga Times ranks “among the best, if not the best”brings back her enormously popular series...
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Until Proven Guilty
J. A. Jance“Any story by Jance is a joy.” Chattanooga TimesNow fans of the enormously popular Sheriff Joanna Brady suspense series by J.A. Jance can discover another side to the acclaimed New...
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Trial by Fury
J. A. JanceThe dead body discovered in a Seattle dumpster was shocking enoughbut equally disturbing was the manner of death. The victim, a high school coach, had been lynched, leaving behind ...
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Duel to the Death
J. A. JanceThe New York Times bestselling author J.A. Jance returns with the thirteenth pulsepounding thriller in the “engaging and entertaining” (Los Angeles Times) Ali Reynolds series.After...
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Long Time Gone
J. A. JanceFifty years ago, when she was five, Sister Mary Katherine witnessed something terrible . . .A former Seattle policeman now working for the Washington State Attorney's Special Homic...
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Rattlesnake Crossing
J. A. JanceSheriff Joanna Brady is the law in Cochise County, and she will never allow her personal trials to interfere with the job she was elected to doespecially now that death has invaded...
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MatchUp
Lee ChildThis “highly recommended” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) collection edited by New York Times bestselling author Lee Child pairs the beloved characters of twentytwo internation...
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Skeleton Canyon
J. A. JanceTop ten New York Times bestselling author J.A. Jance brings us another mesmerizing thriller featuring Arizona Sheriff Joanna Brady as she searches for the brutal killer of a young ...
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Proof of Life
J. A. JanceJ. P. Beaumont’s latest investigation strikes too close to home in this riveting mystery from New York Times bestselling author J. A. Jance.Be careful what you wish for . . . Befor...
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Injustice for All
J. A. Jance“In the elite company of Sue Grafton and Patricia Cornwell.”Flint Journal Injustice For Allriveting crime fiction from J.A. Jance featuring Seattle Homicide Detective J.P. Bea...
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Tombstone Courage
J. A. JanceWith grit, courage and dogged determination, Joanne challenged the status quo and won. Now, as newly elected Sheriff of Cochise County, Arizona, she must battle the prejudice and ...
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Trial by Fire
J. A. JanceNew York Times bestselling author J.A. Jance’s sleuth Ali Reynolds is back for another thrilling adventure as she strives to grant a dying woman’s last requestto find the people wh...
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Missing and Endangered
J. A. JanceNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERCochise County Sheriff Joanna Brady’s professional and personal lives collide when her collegeage daughter is involved in a missing persons case in this ev...
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Dead to Rights
J. A. JanceA woman is cruelly cut down in a remote corner of Arizona, killed on her nineteenth wedding anniversary by a drunk motorist.? A year later, the driver himself dies badly, and all s...
