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MYST JAN
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Publication
Touchstone (2012), Edition: First Edition, 304 pages
Description
After the near-fatal shooting of a former police academy classmate and an encounter with Sister Anselm, who is acting as a patient advocate for a woman who was savagely attacked by a drug cartel, Ali Reynolds is determined to seek justice in both cases.
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LibraryThing member khiemstra631
This book starts off sedately enough with Ali Reynolds stuck, as usual, over which of two girls should receive the Askins Scholarship, for which Ali is responsible for awarding. The action picks up almost immediately in two side tales as a seventeen-year-old prostitute is left in the dessert to die
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and a sheriff's deputy is shot by an unknown assailant. The officer is a friend of Ali's, and she goes to the hospital to help his distraught wife deal with a gravely injured husband, two little girls and the impending birth of a new baby. In the meantime, Ali's good friend, Sister Anselm is the patient advocate for the critically injured prostitute. Their stories intertwine and more murder and mayhem ensue throughout the book. The book provides tense reading and is not recommended for bedtime relaxation. If suspense is to your liking, then this will be the perfect book to provide it. Show Less
LibraryThing member readinggeek451
A young call girl is repeatedly violated, then left for dead in the Arizona desert. Meanwhile, a young deputy is badly assaulted on what he thought was a routine traffic stop, and drugs are found in his car. Ali Reynolds and her friend Sister Anselm wind up in the middle of things.
More of a mystery
More of a mystery
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than this series usually is, although I identified the unknown villain fairly early on. Show Less
LibraryThing member hailelib
Another in the mystery/suspense series featuring Ali Reynolds and her friends. This is book seven and, while it probably doesn't really require that the reader be familiar with the earlier books, I think that reading these in order would be best.
A friend of Ali's from the Police Academy is
Recommended for Jance's fans.
A friend of Ali's from the Police Academy is
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seriously injured in a shooting and she volunteers to help his young wife. While at the hospital she also becomes involved with Sister Anselm's current case, a young girl left for dead in the Arizona desert. I did enjoy this book but I also figured out what was going on before the various cops (and our heroine) arrived at the correct answer. It was a great distraction from the aftermath of a major dental procedure and a nice change of pace from my nonfiction reading.Recommended for Jance's fans.
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LibraryThing member debbieaheaton
In Jance’s mystery novel, Ali Reynolds is contacted by a former Arizona Police Academy classmate regarding an incident involving another former classmate who has just been gun downed and left for dead. Initially, circumstances point to an association with one of the drug cartels. But as the scene
Never a disappointment, the book starts fast and keeps going to the climax. An exceptional addition to the Ali Reynolds series.
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of the crime is processed, it becomes clear there is much more to the story. With a need to pay it forward, Ali finds herself at her fallen friend’s bedside where she encounters an unidentified young woman, who had been raped and beaten. Determined to ensure that justice is served, Ali sets out on a mission to zero in on the truth regardless of the consequences.Never a disappointment, the book starts fast and keeps going to the climax. An exceptional addition to the Ali Reynolds series.
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LibraryThing member DrLed
Synopsis:Ali Reynolds is perfectly happy dealing with renovations to her gardens and determining who will be the next winner of a scholarship. However, when one of her classmates from the police academy is shot, she goes to the hospital to help support the family. There she meets her friend, Sister
Review: The tension in this story was established through wondering if the 'bad guy' would be caught. I knew, almost immediately with the introduction of the character, who was behind the drugs and murders. However, it's a well written tale and well worth reading.
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Anselm who is serving as a patient advocate for a Jane Doe. Together, they are plunged into danger from drug lords.Review: The tension in this story was established through wondering if the 'bad guy' would be caught. I knew, almost immediately with the introduction of the character, who was behind the drugs and murders. However, it's a well written tale and well worth reading.
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LibraryThing member JalenV
As usual, with Left For Dead, J. A. Jance gives listeners a tense time as she weaves the threads of her subplots together. Although the perpetrator of one of the crimes was obvious before CD 6, there was always the chance that worse could come. Does it ever! Not all of the subplots have happy
I'll leave it up to you to find out the fate of the foolish runaway-turned-prostitute, Ali Reynold's injured cop friend and his family, and the postal worker with the tragic past. There will also be a change on the home front.
I'll reassure my fellow dog lovers up front that all will be well with the book's Jack Russell terrier.
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endings, but there are enough of them to make all that tension worth getting through.I'll leave it up to you to find out the fate of the foolish runaway-turned-prostitute, Ali Reynold's injured cop friend and his family, and the postal worker with the tragic past. There will also be a change on the home front.
I'll reassure my fellow dog lovers up front that all will be well with the book's Jack Russell terrier.
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LibraryThing member Kaethe
The story opens with the plight of an under-age runaway trapped in a sex-trafficking ring. Now that the eldest is 13, I fouud it a little too close to home to take. Maybe some other day, when both of the Offspring are all grown up.
LibraryThing member LyndaInOregon
Sleepy Santa Cruz County Arizona has suddenly broken out in mayhem. A small-time pimp is found dead in his car. A border patrol officer discovers a teenage girl, savagely beaten and left to die in the remote desert. A young county cop is shot down in a routine traffic stop gone awry. And that’s
J.A. Jance is a prolific writer of crime novels, with her Joanna Brady series arguably the best of the bunch. But she may be spreading herself too thin with the Ali Reynolds books in addition to the J.P. Beaumont and Walker family mystery series.
Reynolds is essentially just a marginal figure here as various friends and acquaintances try to figure out why the injured policeman is being painted as a cop gone bad, and how to keep the beating victim alive long enough to identify her assailant. Most of the law enforcement figures in the book are painted as either crooked, lazy, or dim, and of course it’s up to Reynolds and the other characters (mostly the other characters) to unravel the tangle.
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just the beginning of the body count in what turns out – even with all the violence – to be a tepid and overplotted mystery-without-mystery and suspense-without-suspense novel.J.A. Jance is a prolific writer of crime novels, with her Joanna Brady series arguably the best of the bunch. But she may be spreading herself too thin with the Ali Reynolds books in addition to the J.P. Beaumont and Walker family mystery series.
Reynolds is essentially just a marginal figure here as various friends and acquaintances try to figure out why the injured policeman is being painted as a cop gone bad, and how to keep the beating victim alive long enough to identify her assailant. Most of the law enforcement figures in the book are painted as either crooked, lazy, or dim, and of course it’s up to Reynolds and the other characters (mostly the other characters) to unravel the tangle.
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Pages
304
ISBN
1451628587 / 9781451628586